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Microsoft Edge's latest Canary update has an innovative feature: video translation.
Users have noticed a new "Translate" button that becomes visible when hovering over a video. However, now, clicking on this button does not trigger any action.
This upcoming feature in Edge is expected to support translation in four languages. There is a dropdown menu for language selection (English, French, Spanish, and Russian), although the actual translation functionality appears to be in development and does not work yet.
Alongside this significant update, Microsoft has also tweaked a more minor feature within Edge.
The description for the "Auto Picture-in-Picture" function has been updated. Now, the feature is clarified to automatically minimize videos into Picture in Picture mode when users switch between different apps rather than when navigating between tabs or windows. This change provides a clearer understanding of how the feature works.
These changes in Microsoft Edge's Canary build give users another reason to try Edge over Chrome. The introduction of video translation is a significant step forward, promising to make content more accessible to a diverse, global audience once it becomes fully functional.
Samsung is preparing a big AI push ahead of the launch of Galaxy S24, and in a new blog post, the company has confirmed plans to give Galaxy phones the ability to translate phone calls in real-time using AI.
“Coming early next year,” Samsung says that Galaxy AI will bring new features to the company’s smartphones. Samsung hasn’t really offered much insight into what those new AI features will be, but the company did announce “Gauss” yesterday as a generative AI that will be able to handle text and image generation with tools for editing, crafting messages, correcting grammar, and more.
One specific use case that Samsung is revealing, though, is “AI Live Translate Call.” Not to be confused with Android’s Live Translate feature, Samsung explains that this “Galaxy AI” feature will allow users to translate a phone call in real-time with both text and audio translations. It sounds absolutely wild, especially because Samsung claims it all happens on-device.
It’s also mentioned that the feature will be baked directly into Samsung’s phone app.
Samsung explains:
AI Live Translate Call will soon give users with the latest Galaxy AI phone a personal translator whenever they need it. Because it’s integrated into the native call feature, the hassle of having to use third-party apps is gone. Audio and text translations will appear in real-time as you speak, making calling someone who speaks another language about as simple as turning on closed captions when you stream a show. Because it’s on-device Galaxy AI, you can trust that no matter the scenario, private conversations never leave your phone.
This feature would likely make its debut with the Galaxy S24 series, which is reportedly leaning pretty heavily on AI features. Samsung is expected to launch its new flagships in January 2024.
To the editor: I possess a copy of Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary of American English, one of the few dictionaries available when the 14th Amendment [adopted in 1868] was written. ("Can Trump be on the ballot in 2024? It can hinge on the meaning of 'insurrection,'" Nov. 3)
It defines "insurrection" clearly, accurately, and authentically, as it was meant at the time:
"A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. Insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion."
The last sentence is important. It shows that the scope of insurrection is very broad. It includes insurrection itself, sedition or rebellion.
The lawyers on both sides of the argument over whether the 14th Amendment bars former President Trump from appearing on the ballot appear to be making up what they want "insurrection" to mean, whereas this dictionary clearly, accurately and authentically states its meaning at the time.
Let's please insist that the lawyers adhere to the authentic and broad definition.
Wayne Howe, Irvine
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To the editor: The 14th Amendment cites "insurrection or rebellion" as violations of the U.S. Constitution. As president, Trump took the oath to "protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States." Trump violated his oath by attempting to subvert the transition of office to President Biden, thus committing a rebellion against the Constitution.
Trump was informed by his U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. Trump's attorney general at the time informed him there was no voter fraud that would overturn the election.
Notwithstanding being so informed, over the past three years Trump has claimed through the media, public appearances and rallies that the election was rigged and stolen from him by widespread voter fraud.
Trump's acts of constitutional rebellion are contained in the Department of Justice and Georgia indictments. Those charges more than justify Trump's disqualification from the 2024 election.
Joseph S. Avila, Montebello
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
To the editor: I possess a copy of Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary of American English, one of the few dictionaries available when the 14th Amendment [adopted in 1868] was written. (“Can Trump be on the ballot in 2024? It can hinge on the meaning of ‘insurrection,’” Nov. 3)
It defines “insurrection” clearly, accurately, and authentically, as it was meant at the time:
“A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. Insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.”
The last sentence is important. It shows that the scope of insurrection is very broad. It includes insurrection itself, sedition or rebellion.
The lawyers on both sides of the argument over whether the 14th Amendment bars former President Trump from appearing on the ballot appear to be making up what they want “insurrection” to mean, whereas this dictionary clearly, accurately and authentically states its meaning at the time.
Let’s please insist that the lawyers adhere to the authentic and broad definition.
Wayne Howe, Irvine
..
To the editor: The 14th Amendment cites “insurrection or rebellion” as violations of the U.S. Constitution. As president, Trump took the oath to “protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Trump violated his oath by attempting to subvert the transition of office to President Biden, thus committing a rebellion against the Constitution.
Trump was informed by his U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. Trump’s attorney general at the time informed him there was no voter fraud that would overturn the election.
Notwithstanding being so informed, over the past three years Trump has claimed through the media, public appearances and rallies that the election was rigged and stolen from him by widespread voter fraud.
Trump’s acts of constitutional rebellion are contained in the Department of Justice and Georgia indictments. Those charges more than justify Trump’s disqualification from the 2024 election.
Joseph S. Avila, Montebello
South Korean smartphone giant Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time translation service on calls using AI technology next year, a company representative told AFP on Friday.
Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker accounting for a fifth of global sales between July and September, as Apple trails in second with 16 percent of the market, according to market tracker Counterpoint.
The new real-time translation feature will be incorporated into Samsung's new Galaxy flagship model, which will launch early next year, the representative said.
It will enable "real-time translation in audio and text as the callers are on the line", the spokesman said, adding that it has not been determined how many languages will be supported.
The translation will be enabled even if a call partner uses a non-Samsung smartphone, as the new model will use "on-device AI technology".
Speaking to a foreigner using the new AI feature will be "as simple as turning on closed captions" on streaming shows, Samsung said in a press release, with private conversations safely locked in on the phones.
The unveiling comes as the South Korean firm is racing to develop its generative AI model called Samsung Gauss, which comes in three fields of language, code and image, and is currently used among company staff.
The company will incorporate the AI system into its wide range of products in the near future, it said, without specifying timing or the models.
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Samsung wants to make sure you know it cares about AI, too. In a new blog post, the company previewed what it calls “a new era of Galaxy AI” coming to its smartphones and detailed a forthcoming feature that will use artificial intelligence to translate phone calls in real time.
“Galaxy AI is a comprehensive mobile AI experience, powered by both on-device AI developed at Samsung and cloud-based AI enabled by our open collaborations with like-minded industry leaders,” Samsung wrote in the post. “It will transform your everyday mobile experience with the peace of mind you count on from Galaxy security and privacy.”
Samsung’s live translate feature, which the company is calling “AI Live Translate Call,” will be built into the company’s native phone app. Samsung says “audio and text translations will appear in real-time as you speak” and that the translations will happen on device.
The company says Galaxy AI is coming “early next year,” so it seems likely that Galaxy AI features will be included with Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup of smartphones. Those phones are rumored to launch in 2024. The company also reportedly demonstrated its generative AI model called Gauss at an event this week, which will apparently power features on mobile devices beginning next year, so I’m taking that to mean that Gauss will be a key part of the Galaxy S24 lineup, too.
AI-powered features seem like they’re becoming the next battleground for smartphone makers. Google, for example, has a suite of AI-powered tools to help you edit and improve photos with its Pixel 8 lineup. Apple is reportedly spending a lot of money every day to train AI, and I have to imagine all that investment will show up in some AI-powered features for iPhones.
And smartphone makers will soon have to compete with AI-focused hardware products like Humane’s cellular-enabled AI Pin — though you can get a preview of that device in our exclusive leak published ahead of Thursday’s launch.
