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VBPD rolls out new AI technology to help officers translate foreign languages almost instantly 13newsnow.com The labour of love breathing life back into palawa kani – the lost language of Lutruwita The Guardian JC Bowman and Patrick Basnett: A Balanced View On The Foreign Language Requirement Chattanoogan.com Breaking News ‘Real-time language interpretation in 56 dialects’: VBPD announces new communication tool - WAVY.com Audio language model startup Gradium raises $70M to create more realistic voice AI systems SiliconANGLE Approximate domain unlearning: Enabling safer and more controllable vision-language models Tech Xplore Kingdom hosts Arabic language day events at UN Arab News PK Ball State's Li wins prestigious languages award The Star Press ‘Real-time language interpretation in 56 dialects’: VBPD announces new communication tool - WAVY.com If We Only Spoke the Rebbe’s Language Anash.org Federal cuts force Harvard to suspend key foreign language and area study programmes: Here's what to know Times of India ‘The Chatterboxes’: ‘A comedy of errors finds a common language The Japan Times Australian think tank warns that China is developing AI surveillance systems in minority languages Korea JoongAng Daily 'Stranger Things 5' Opens With 59.6 Million Views, Netflix's Biggest English-Language TV Debut Ever Variety Legault slams Marc Miller over French language comments, calls him a disgrace to Quebecers Global News Researchers develop AI tool to untangle legal language Washington Square News My kids start sentences in one language and end in another. 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