Google translate is now serving even more of the world’s population. It recently added 13 new languages, making the total number of available dialects 103.
Now those that speak Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish, Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto, or Xhosa can communicate via Google Translate. Luxembourgish completed Google’s list of official languages of Europe.
A beautiful sunset over a field just in Jerrabomberra, near Ausralia’s capital city, Canberra. Just outside of view, past the fence on the left, is a football field where local kangaroos hang out at night.
The acoustic guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, are musicians hailing from Mexico City, where they met at the young age of 15. Several years later the two picked up and moved to Ireland to pursue their music careers. They had a humble start, playing covers in pubs throughout Dublin.
Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone, and Ignazio Boschetto make up the pop-opera trio Il Volo. Their name Il Volo is Italian for “The Flight”. Their genre of music is pop with some operatic elements and they are signing in one of the world’s most beautiful languages, Italian.
A collaborative project, ten years in the making, is giving violinist Rosemary Johnson a chance to make music again. The scientists involved in the project, led by Plymouth University and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in London, have created a technology, Brain Computer Music Interfacing software. Thanks to the cutting edge technology Rosemary is now able to play using the power of her mind.