If you've ever felt the need to flip the bird at a levitating man, you're in luck. The latest emoji avalanche from Apple, released Wednesday as part of , includes a middle finger and a floating guy in a suit along with more familiar images like a hot dog, a taco and a bottle of champagne.
Skype Translator offers Japanese as its 10th real-time spoken language Today, we are thrilled to announce another Skype Translator milestone: Skype users around the world will now be able to make real-time voice and video calls in Japanese, in addition to the nine other spoken languages of English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Arabic, Russian, and over 60 IM languages.
Pall said Skype Translator will be available first as a Windows 8 beta app by the end of this year. Microsoft purchased London-based Skype, which has 300 million monthly users, in 2011. But Nadella said the translation technology the program uses has been in development at Microsoft for 15 years. And, in another development straight out of science fiction, he said the current version is surprising even its creators.