Remember the universal translator on Star Trek? The gadget that let Kirk and Spock talk to aliens?
Microsoft will demonstrate onstage at the inaugural Code Conference on Tuesday a version of Skype that will accomplish much of the same — real-time language translation — without a new device.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
Microsoft is laying off more employees, a new round after they cut thousands last year. It seems like many big tech companies are doing the same.
Amidst the AI frenzy of 2023, major players like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are in the spotlight, launching their own generative AI systems.
