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AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

22 January 2018

Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation

Hands spelling out words in sign language

Glove turns sign language into text for real-time translation

12 July 2017

The 26 letters of American Sign Language have been coded so far, letting people who are deaf and do not write English communicate easily with anyone around them

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AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

Glove turns sign language into text for real-time translation

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