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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. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
