Age of Freaking Wonders

There is no great stagnation.

• Google's new earbuds, paired with their Pixl phone, are the Babelfish: realtime translation on demand for conversation. Alas, no NZ release date yet scheduled. But still.


• The new graphics engine for simulated faces. Just look at what they can do now.
  
     
  It advertises itself as compatible with all game engines and animation packages. Dunno how long it'll take for this kind of rendering to show up in real games and what you'll need to run it but... wow.