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Google touts Babel Fish-esque in-ear real-time translators. And the usual computer stuff
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/05/google_ai_phones_home_laptops_earbuds/
Google today showed off some new Android phones, a laptop, two Home assistants, and a genuine surprise: a set of earbuds that attempt to emulate Douglas Adams’ legendary Babel Fish – a real-time language translator.
During the hardware unveiling, an event dubbed Made by Google, in San Francisco a few hours ago, CEO Sundar Pichai – and every single other speaker – hammered the point that the future, as Google sees it, is all about hardware and software being vastly improved by machine learning.