Google Translate improves offline translation

Google just updated its Translate app to improve its offline translation capabilities. It promises better word choice, grammar, and sentence structure. Google claimed offline translation for the 59 available languages is now 12 percent more accurate. And for specific languages — like Japanese, Korean, Thai, Polish, and Hindi — the quality of the translations are 20 percent better. 

In case you need it, Google Translate also offers transliteration to help with pronunciation. Google also added offline support for 10 more languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Apple offers 8TB SSD upgrade for the Mac Pro

Maybe you need extra storage for your new Apple Mac Pro? Well, be prepared to spend on it. Apple is offering a new 8TB SSD option for an additional $3,120. As MobileSyrup points out, this will push up the price of the new Mac Pro to a total of $76,526, if you include the Pro Display XDR monitor, too. It's extremely expensive, but it packs in the best Apple has to offer for those who need this kind of workstation. The 8TB option is listed as "coming soon," along with one or two Radeon Pro W5700X with 16GB of GDDR6 GPUs and a rack mount variant of the Mac Pro.

Shawn Mendes tops Spotify's list of songs most listened to by Waze users in 2019

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Three Canadian artists make the list of Spotify's top 10 songs listened to by Waze users around the world in 2019. At number one, we have Pickering-born Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello for the song "Señorita." Mendes is joined by Snow, who collaborated with Daddy Yankee for the number 2 song "Con Calma." Then there's Justin Beiber in the fourth spot with his collaboration with Ed Sheeran on the track "I Don't Care." You can check the full list under the cut.

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Google Play Movies supports Netflix, Disney+ search

Google Play Movies in the US now makes it easier for you to look for the content you want. The app now integrates Netflix and Disney+ into its search function. You can add these two through the Manages services option in the Play Movies' menu. So, the next time you perform a search, it'll add either or both of those services if the content you're looking for is there. You would need to have the app on your phone to start playing what you want to watch.

As we mentioned, it isn't available here yet, and it doesn't support the streaming of live TV. Now, we wonder when Apple TV+ will be added, too.

Source: Engadget