I’ve experienced Meta’s translation with text before and found it adequate for reading my children’s books in Spanish; Meta AI even offered, unprompted, some funny insights. When traveling, my coworker Kate Knibbs discovered that live translation is a little awkward when it’s limited to the written word. Live translation with …
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A wine glass is not just a wine glass. It is form and function, status and culture, history and modernity, all in a single object. It’s a tool we use to consume something highly sought after, and at the same time, the tool itself is a subject of great inquiry, …
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I’m a big fan of composting, but it doesn’t always go according to plan. Recently, a rat moved into my compost pile. It seemed to have a particular fondness for coffee grounds. After several frank exchanges of views, I persuaded Colin the Compost Rat (as I christened him) to move …
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Once upon a time, every AeroPress was the best AeroPress. But the humble AeroPress coffee maker has since multiplied. It has become various. The past half decade or so has brought an explosion of new versions of AeroPress: a plastic-free premium AeroPress (7/10, WIRED Recommends), a big AeroPress, a small …
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