Skype Translator

It will soon be possible to talk with someone over internet phone services such as Skype that speaks a different language. The VoIP services is intent of breaking all kinds of language barriers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Gurdeep Pall, the vice president in charge of Skype, demonstrated the technology Tuesday night in California at the Code Conference, sponsored by tech-news site Re/Code. After a short delay, the system posts one user's translated comments as text onscreen to the other user while a synthetic voice speaks them aloud. Pall said Skype Translator will be available first as a Windows 8 beta app by the end of this year. This new technology is taking social media and communications to a whole new level. There are less and less barriers to break down. In the beginning of the century, it was about mails and telephones that made the world smaller and brought people together and now the languages are not an issue. Another idea is that this technology could be used in everyday life and not just on communication devices, but that would raise a whole slew of new issues.

Technologies to Disrupt the World

Two hundred times stronger than steel and light as a feather; tougher than a diamond, but stretches like rubber; able to conduct electricity and heat better than a copper wire, graphene, ladies and gentleman -- the very ingredients in the substance of your No. 2 pencil is changing the world. Electronics is becoming a hotter topic these days with electric cars and such along with communication services and devices.  Doctors in the Netherlands did, printing a lower jaw for an 83-year woman. And its success only makes this trillion-dollar technology even more appealing for both doctors and patients around the world. And if that weren't enough, the technology could be used to print out skin, ears, bones and organs. We already know 3D printing is primarily used with industrial design, aerospace and engineering, but its revolutionary applications are changing the medical space.

The iPhone 6

There have been recent rumors that the iPhone 6 will be coming out this August which is about a month or two before the usual date. If the release date rumor comes true, Apple might be trying to stem the slowdown in iPhone sales that happens every summer. Smartphone shoppers have become conditioned to Apple’s yearly cycle; typically, iPhone sales crater in the summer months as everyone waits for the newer model. The Economic Daily News also says that the display on the iPhone 6 will increase to 4.7 inches on the diagonal, and that an even bigger iPhone, with a 5.5-inch screen, will follow in September. In order to compete with Samsung, Huawei, and others in the massive Asian market, Apple needs to come out with a bigger screen for its iPhone which many companies in software development are looking at anyway. Of course, there needs to be confirmation of these rumors. Are you going to get the new iPhone when it comes out?