Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

It’s like Babel Fish but not in your ear. It’s like Babel Fish but not in your ear. is a reporter who writes about AI. She also covers the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy.

Contrary to what one might think, Google translate does not work by somehow parsing a text in the source language into its abstract meaning and then restituting that meaning in the target language.