One of a fleet of helicopters being used as part of Blade’s ride-sharing service was been forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York on Wednesday Blade called the landing “safe,” with the helicopter coming down on floats near the heliport.  “There were no passengers on board. The pilot was not injured and immediately exited …

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Google has announced Translatotron, an “experimental new system” that it says will translate speech directly into speech, removing the need for any text. “Translatotron is the first end-to-end model that can directly translate speech from one language into speech in another language,” a Google AI blog post on Wednesday said. Google said there are three stages of today’s translation systems: …