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- Lost in AirPod Translation
Earlier this week, I stopped for breakfast in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a largely Hispanic neighborhood where street vendors sell tamales and rice pudding out of orange Gatorade coolers. I speak some Spanish, but I wanted to test out Apple’s new “Live Translation” feature, which has been advertised as a sort of interpreter in your ears. I popped in my AirPods, pulled up the Translate app, and approached.As I opened my mouth, the AirPods blared a message into my ears: AMBIENT SOUND LEVELS ARE HIGH. TRY MOVING iPHONE CLOSER TO THE AUDIO SOURCE TO CONTINUE TRANSLATION. The vendor had already begun explaining her offerings to me in a mix of Spanish and English, but the AirPods drowned out most of her words. I asked a question, in English, about the tamale fillings, then realized that I had to press an on-screen “Play” button for it to be read aloud by my… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - The Conquest of Chicago
When National Guard troops from Texas started to arrive in Illinois last week, I drove out to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center on the outskirts of Chicago to get a better look at what the soldiers were sent to protect. The ICE building is just off the interstate, next to a pest-control company and several union halls. Protesters have been gathering here for weeks, so ICE covered the windows with plywood and closed off the street with jersey barriers and steel fencing. The facility looks not much bigger than a neighborhood hardware store, a vestige of a different era of immigration enforcement, when ICE wasn’t working for a president who wanted a million deportations a year.Television crews were set up outside, but I found only two protesters. One was Nick Sednew, a 40-year-old musician and father of a preschooler who told me he has been coming here every… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Chef Fatmata Binta designated FAO Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa
...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - FAO and Italy unveil commemorative postal stamp marking the Organization’s 80th anniversary...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Pope Leo XIV and world leaders mark World Food Day and FAO at 80 in Rome...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- FAO inaugurates new Food and Agriculture Museum & Network in Rome...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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