I'm happy to report that there don't appear to be nearly as many bugs in "Cyberpunk 2077" as there used to be, though I did have the game crash on me once, and I had to restart the game a few times. Once, on a lark through an industrial park, I stumbled upon a cybernetic blood ritual (which sounds as bad as it looked). Voices started to whisper in my head and my teeth began to chatter, as if my character stood steps away from death's door. Eventually, I solved the mystery and walked away from the gory spectacle -- but the voices stayed with me long after I was done. They weren't in my head, they were actually continuing to play in my headset.

With its Learning Tools, Microsoft has developed a few ways to make it easier for students to get a better handle on reading and writing. One tool, for example, can read your words aloud and help you identify common grammatical issues. Another, called Immersive Reading, can also read text aloud while highlighting it in "focused" view (where words are spaced out in a distraction-free environment). The Learning Tools started out as a OneNote plug-in, but Microsoft has steadily expanded it to Office apps on desktops, mobile and the web. Today, the company announced they're headed to Word for iPad.

Today's educational system is static, generalized and puts less focus on individual self-development than it perhaps should. To make matters worse, students often don't understand why they are learning the things that they're learning, which makes certain classes feel arbitrary and purposeless in the face of their personal ambitions (and has a number of neurological implications we'll soon discuss). With that being said, what could be done to fix these issues and take education to a new level? What could make education more exciting, fun and practical? I believe it comes down to three simple ideas (that aren't new by any means) which can finally be fully explored with smart use of technology.

Organisations are beginning to'listen' to unstructured data found in texts which was previously deemed boring or irrelevant to provide insights, says Evan Harridge, founder of Immersive. Immersive uses text analytics via machine learning to uncover new insights from unstructured data and has developed a'sentiment index' which allows companies to discern how happy or unhappy customers are based on the content of their emails. "In a lot of cases we are looking at opportunities that don't exist, because we can now store and analyse all of this information which was just seen as useless or not valuable," Harridge told Which-50 during The Hadoop Summit in Melbourne last week. "Customers are starting to realise all the conversations and all the email communications we have potentially generate value. Rather than just the summarised information or the headings or the information inside the cost table, we take everything and use it as context."