Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience. Hans Christian Andersen once said, "To travel is to live," and while that's a romantic notion, he probably wasn't careening through Gyeongju, South Korea, at midnight in the back of a taxi with a driver who didn't speak a lick of English. Today's world traveler has it awfully easy when it comes to understanding the local lingo, as even a basic modern cell phone app can offer a pretty good translation of common phrases delivered in everything from Abkhaz to Zulu. Type or speak a sentence or two into the app, tap a button, and out it returns in the language of your choice. Tap another button, and your phone can even speak those sentences aloud.

This code pattern explains how to build an AI-powered back-end system that can take your daily essential orders through an offline mode. To contend with panic purchases and hoarding during crises, how can you maintain social distancing while getting the essentials that you need? Because many people do not know how to use or have access to available online portals, there must be a different option for them to receive their essential items such as food and medicine. For example, a toll-free phone number-based approach to contacting a control tower might be a better option. In this option, the user can call the toll free number and order their essentials.

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If you don't want to pay for Microsoft's AI-powered Microsoft Office, there are alternatives--including Zoho's free Zoho Office Suite. Zoho's alternatives to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Keep launch today, complete with their own intelligent features that are arguably friendlier than Microsoft's own. The updated, smarter Zoho Writer 5 word processor and Zoho Sheet 5 spreadsheet join Zoho Notebook, a new addition that intelligently transforms links into "cards" that pull data from the web. The suite also includes Zoho Show, a free alternative to PowerPoint. For this revision, the Zoho Office Suite includes Zia, an AI assistant that Zoho integrated into its CRM solution last year.

Mountain View - At its I/O developer conference Google today debuted ML Kit, a new SDK with five core APIs that gives mobile developers the power to add machine learning to their apps using Firebase. If you're looking to add some smarts to your apps, this is the tool you need. "We want machine learning to be a thing," said Brahim Elbouchikhi, Product Manager at Google. That's why the company decided to build its own machine learning package and tie it up in a tidy SDK. ML Kit is meant to help developers skip the heavy computation and let Google take care of the tough math.

Decades ago, Star Trek introduced the idea of a "universal translator," a small baton that let crew members converse with aliens in their native languages simply by flipping a switch. This app isn't part of the pre-installed loadout on most phones, but it's indispensable when you travel. It's so overflowing with features, in fact, you might not even realize everything it can do. So here are the six most awesome and useful things you can do with Google Translate on your smartphone. You won't always have the best mobile data connection while traveling the world, so it's a good idea to have an offline backup in Translate.

Chinese manufacturer DJI is adding a local data mode to its drones. Once enabled, the new feature will stop the company's apps from collecting user data (such as photos, videos, and flight logs). Although, DJI claims the update is in response to public demand, it's hard to ignore the security concerns recently raised by the US army. Less than two weeks ago, the military ordered staff to halt use of all DJI hardware and applications, citing "operational risks." Although the army did not elaborate on its memo, it's thought the decision may have been spurred by DJI's data collection.

"I had the worst dream," said Professor Einstein. "My vast intellect had been downloaded into a prosthetic body. I was then made to present the world of science to perfect strangers." Within moments of being activated, the 14-inch robotic replica of Albert Einstein made a meta comment about being trapped in a knowledge-dispensing machine. It shook its head from side to side and slowly blinked its eyes as if it were contemplating his situation.

Captain Kirk had the universal translator, Arthur Dent had the Babel fish -- and the rest of us have smartphones. Neither the universal translator nor the Babel fish chew up your 4G data allowance, potentially costing you an arm and a leg on your overseas vacation. Software developers are creating more mobile translation tools that you can use offline. Software developers are creating more mobile translation tools that you can use offline. Luckily for you, though, the translator gap is narrowing as more developers create apps with helpful offline modes that let you do your translating at your leisure, without worrying about the bill.