Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be ...

One of the many handy iPhone tricks you should master as soon as possible is the Live Text functionality that lets you instantly interact with text on the screen. The iPhone feature lets you translate ...

Google Translate has always been a useful app for travelers abroad, but it has also rolled out a few improvements that people ...

One of the nicest things to come out of Google's software workshops in recent years is Circle to Search. An evolution of Google Lens, this new trick makes it wildly easier to look up information on ...

Strap on your seatbelts, Android fans: Google has a new tool in its Google Goggles Android app, and it’s time to take it for a test drive. Google announced the debut of its Google Goggles image-based ...

With its latest operating system for iPhones, iOS 14, Apple has introduced a slew of new additions that include new features, accessibility functionalities, and improved privacy settings, among other ...

You don’t need any other apps or websites to translate text on your phone. Image: Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can instantly translate text anywhere on your iPhone ...

Being on the internet, you’re bound to run into text that’s in a language you don’t know. Maybe it’s a comic, a comment, or a tweet. Sometimes, you NEED to translate something! Well, it’s possible to ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Lingoes looks for meanings and translations in all the popular dictionaries available online. By default, there is only one Basic English dictionary installed in the software, but as per your language ...

Google sure took its own sweet time bringing its Now on Tap feature to Android Marshmallow, which surfaces contextual information based on the contents of your screen when you long-press the home ...