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Ten years of Google Translate

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Ten years of Google Translate ABOUT ZENFONE - Ten years of Google Translate, Ten years of Google Translate, Ten years ago, we launched Google Translate. Our goal was to break language barriers and to make the world more accessible. Since then we�ve grown from supporting two languages to 103, and from hundreds of users to hundreds of millions. And just like anyone�s first 10 years, we�ve learned to see and understand, talk, listen, have a conversation, write, and lean on friends for help. But what were most inspired by is how Google Translate connects people in communities around the world, in ways we never could have imagined�like two farmers with a shared passion for tomato farming, a couple discovering theyre pregnant in a foreign country, and a young immigrant on his way to soccer stardom. Here�s a look at Google Translate today, 10 years in: 1. Google Translate helps people make connections. Translate can help people help each other, often in the most difficult of times. Recently w...

Tony Conrads Ten Years alive on the Infinite Plain 1972 2017

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Tony Conrads Ten Years alive on the Infinite Plain 1972 2017 Premiering to the world at large, Tony Conrad�s gobsmacking quintessential opus Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain is now available to hear for the first time, featuring Laurie Spiegel and Rhys Chatham and  arriving via Superior Viaduct just over a year since the death of the iconoclastic avant-garde violinist and composer in 2016. Conrad�s sprawling, innovative practice - binding film, sound and performance in peerless and unprecedented style has been a huge influence on his myriad collaborators and far-flung body of avowed admirers. Just like the amazing and revelatory documentary,  Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present  [2016], this steeply immersive 1hr, 30 minute recording should also attract a whole new wave of listeners to his truly sui generis music and cement his place in the 20th century avant-garde firmament, if it wasn�t already. Recorded at the piece�s premiere at The Kitchen...