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 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 ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Apple launched Live Translation in October. It uses AI to translate audio and texts in real-time.  The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has added new translation features, making it easy to edit translation search terms, change languages or hear the translations directly within search. Going off a tip from @WilliamHarvey, when ...

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 ...

Following last month’s announcement, Google Translate for iPhone has received a Material You redesign. Update 3/22: Google made the redesign official with version 7 ...

In iOS 16, Apple has expanded the reach of its Live Text feature, which can recognize text in not just photos, but also videos now, too. Keep reading to learn how to use it. In iOS 15, Apple ...

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 ...