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Not a Joke: GitHub Getting Broad Subversion Support

| Sunday, May 9, 2010
You probably thought it was an April Fools joke when GitHub announced Subversion read-only support on April 1st.  However, the people at GitHub announced this month that GitHub has added Subversion write support.  Developers can now use tools like SmartSVN or Tortoise SVN to collaborate on Git projects.  This move is possibly meant to attract Subversion (and Google Code) users who aren't ready to use Git yet.  Right now the support is considered beta functionality.  To try it out, just enter your GitHub credentials into this URL: http://svn.github.com/[user]/[repository]

Google: Making Machine Translation
In the newest release of Google Goggles smartphones are able to take pictures of five different Latin-based languages (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish) and translate them into even more languages.  Cool, right?  Google is innovating rapidly in its translation software.  They recently included automated captioning in YouTube videos and auto-translation for websites in Chrome.  Google is even developing software for smartphones that will provide real-time voice translation into the language of the person on the other line.

Read more: DZone

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