It's not crazy to think investors and drivers will witness more innovation and change in the automotive industry over the next two decades than what took place over the last century. Technology and smartphones are enabling businesses like Uber to thrive seemingly overnight. Young people moving back into an urban lifestyle are creating opportunities for companies to think differently about how people travel on a daily basis. But perhaps the most intriguing storyline of all is the future of driverless cars. Here are three analysts with the reasons they believe driverless cars are here to stay.

Computer science focused educational research institute International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad is starting a new accelerator focused on technologies such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. These technologies, incidentally, are focused around research areas of the premier educational institute. "The ecosystem around IIIT-Hyderabad should be able to leverage the goldmine of the institute," said Vasudev Varma, dean (research and development) at IIIT-Hyderabad. The model is similar to one in the US where research universities spawn startups centered around technologies they develop. IIIT's accelerator, named Avishkar, will be a six-month program.

AI has mastered one of the most complex board games on Earth, beating the world's best at Go. Just weeks after its overwhelming victory over world-class Go player Lee Sedol, Google's AI operation AlphaGo is set to be challenged. Not given much time to toast its convincing victory, reports have emerged that the team behind China Computer Go team has Google in its crosshairs, with an AI showdown in the works. Shanghai Securities News reported that the Chinese team will set a challenge before the year is out, although it's unclear exactly what that challenge will be. However, it marks a quick deviation away from regular old humans playing Go at the very pinnacle of the game. After winning 99pc of its games against other Go programmes, last year AlphaGo became the first AI system to beat a pro player when it won out 5-0 against European Go champion Fan Hui.

It's not crazy to think investors and drivers will witness more innovation and change in the automotive industry over the next two decades than what took place over the last century. Technology and smartphones are enabling businesses like Uber to thrive seemingly overnight. Young people moving back into an urban lifestyle are creating opportunities for companies to think differently about how people travel on a daily basis. But perhaps the most intriguing storyline of all is the future of driverless cars. Here are three analysts with the reasons they believe driverless cars are here to stay.

The haunting genius of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is that it suggests how some ideas can become literally unimaginable when the language that describes them is destroyed. He wrote of freedoms that political power could make simply impossible to talk, write and think about – because there was no language in which to do so. It's a brilliant idea with multiple applications in every age – suggesting that we need always to be ready to interrogate the reasons why ideas are being reconfigured, compromised or destroyed. Related: 'Bedblocking' – what happens when profits are put ahead of people Here is an unexpected candidate: care. It's a small word, so pervasive and overloaded with meanings that its significance has often been easy to overlook. It's the care given by parents that nurtures us into adulthood, and it's the care given by others that supports us in old age and as we die; and in-between, care is the oft overlooked scaffolding of our lives, on which wellbeing and daily life depend.

ISIS has created training videos to teach millions of aspiring muslims who dream of becoming'heroic' mujahideens how they can turn cats into self-driving bomb machines and create missiles from shells to shoot down passenger planes – and all from basic materials that can be acquired and purchased anywhere. Put this into perspective: the EU has deliberately sent navy ships to import 1.3 million muslims from the coast of Libya and Turkey of which a massive majority support and endorse jihad according to polls, to now walk the streets all across Europe. In addition, the EU has rewarded Turkey for their willing participation in infiltrating jihad into Syria and Europe by promising to offer them 3bn euros and quicker EU-entry rather than penalizing Turkey. Obama has opened the door to over 100,000 of the same jihad aspiring muslims per year to walk American streets, hating Americans, aspiring for their death and destruction. Meanwhile both the Obama administration ( 46.6 billion for fiscal 2015) and the EU memberstates (over 3.3bn euros in 2010) have been selling military equipment and weapons to muslim countries which are then quickly funneled by these governments to their jihad'heroes' around the world fighting for Allah.

Google confirmed they plan to improve Google Translate's accuracy through artificial intelligence called deep learning. Deep learning is an advanced model of machine learning where an algorithm takes what it has already "learned" (data previously processed) and uses it to form new ways to solve problems in a pattern. Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, confirmed that his team has been working with the Google Translate team to "scale out experiments with translation based on deep learning." Deep learning and technologies derived from it, including deep and recurrent neural nets, are objectively excellent at tackling sequential problems such as speech and image recognition, as long as there is sufficient existing material to train them. On that front, Google Translate's vast data trove of translated material should indeed prove quite useful.

Today, Facebook has apologised for a Safety Check error that led to people around the world being texted in the wake of the Sunday's bombing in Lahore, Japan's Hitomi X-ray satellite has lost communication with Earth, Microsoft has issued a formal explanation for the actions of its short-lived machine learning chatbot, Tay, and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter. In the wake of a suicide bombing that left at least 69 people dead in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, Facebook has apologised for an error in its Safety Check disaster response system that saw people around the world being asked to check in as safe (The Guardian). Users in areas as geographically diverse as Australia, Egypt and Belgium received text messages asking if they'd been affected by the explosion, without any information on where the incident had occurred.

Two-thirds of Americans believe that, in 50 years, robots and computers will do much of the work humans now do. The World Economic Forum's 2016 report, The Future of Jobs, estimates that 5 million jobs will be lost to automation by 2020 and that the number will keep growing. Jobs that once seemed like "safe bets"--office workers and administrative personnel, manufacturing, and even law--will be hit hardest, the report estimates. "There are some overarching shifts poised to change the nature of work itself over the next decade," says Devin Fidler, research director at Institute for the Future, a nonprofit research center focused on long-term forecasting. So what do you need to work on to be marketable in 2025?

Cortana is one of MicrosoftMicrosoft Cloud Tool Moves Enterprise Analytics Data Easily. Read more ... »'s key focuses this year, and the personal assistantMicrosoft Launches New Emotion API Tool That Can Recognize Several Emotions In Photos. Read more ... » is set to receive more features with the upcoming Anniversary Update for Windows 10. "We think this can have as profound an impact as the previous platform shifts have had", Nadella said in his keynote speechMicrosoft Launches New Emotion API Tool That Can Recognize Several Emotions In Photos. In gaming-related news, Microsoft has also incorporated Xbox into Windows. For now, the preview bots are already available on Skype for the latest versions on the Windows Desktop, iPhone, iPad, and Android.