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Google wins at machine translation
Here's another Google feature that's winning plaudits: The company's
automatic translation service was tested by the National Institute of
Science and Technology, and beat out competing products from major
research labs. The test focused solely on translations of Arabic and
Chinese text, and Google scored 0.51 out of a possible 1.0 on the
Arabic tests and 0.35 on the Chinese tests. Those scores give Google
plenty of room for improvement, but still put it well ahead of
competitors. 
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
