How to use 'conversation mode' in the iPhone's new Translate app, and make bilingual communication seamless

To use conversation mode in the Translate app on your iPhone, you'll need to turn on the "Automatic Detection" feature.

How to add words to the internal dictionary on your Android device, and add shortcuts for longer words

You can manually add words to your Android device's internal dictionary if it doesn't already recognize them as real words.

Fictional dictionaries on Kindle finally helped me get through Tolkien

Fictional dictionaries on Kindle make Tolkien and other dense series easier to read, letting me tap for context without ...

Hard pass. Cold brew. Dad bod. Merriam-Webster adds over 5,000 words to 'Collegiate' dictionary

The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana ...
MIT Technology Review

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What ...
The Atlantic

Is This the End of the Dictionary?

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...