Dealing with disasters increasingly requires a smartphone – losing access can be a nightmare, but there are ways to prepare

Smartphones have become part of just about everyone’s emergency infrastructure. We use them to receive warnings, follow evacuation routes and road closures, locate shelters, contact family and track ...

Deaf interpreters translate hours of Netflix content into ASL because closed captioning isn’t a fix

Former San Diego and Alpine resident, Scott Keller, is one of the certified Deaf interpreters who worked on the project ...
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Google’s new sign-language model lets users sign to search instead of typing

Google’s SL2T model uses 100,000 hours of data and body landmarks to translate sign language into text on phones.

Google brings ASL-to-text translation to Pixel 11

Ahead of its Made by Google event Wednesday evening, Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a new AI model that translates sign language directly into written text. The model powers a sign-to-text feature ...

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold can turn sign language into text, here's how

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold comes with support for turning American Sign Language into text with a new sign-to-text input in Gboard.
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Google DeepMind Brings Sign Language Translation to Phones With SL2T

Google DeepMind has shipped a sign-language-to-text model, SL2T, inside two consumer Android products, the first time sign language AI has reached a shipping phone feature. The model powers ...

Haliburton and Pacers to play at Hilton Coliseum in October

Former Iowa State Cyclone Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers will play an exhibtion game at Hilton Coliseum ...