Google is adding a multitude of languages to its speech recognition capabilities. The expansion will cover 30 international languages and local dialects, including India and Africa's emerging regions. This will increase the total number of supported languages to 119. The update will include eight additional Indian languages and two African languages, Amharic and Swahili. The expanded speech recognition will provide more voice-based search opportunities, whether searching the web or typing using one's voice.

In the next few years, expect smart clothing and accessories to become more fashionable and integrate more seamlessly into our daily lives. The wearable tech market is still relatively young and in flux. Fitbit, the company that arguably led the first wave of interest in wearables, didn't start making a wrist-based fitness tracker until 2013. Now, just about every major tech firm – and a slew of scrappy startups – has its own "smart" garment or accessory to peddle, whether in the form of a watch, ring, pendant, sports bra, shoe or something else. By 2020, the global appetite for wearable devices is expected to grow to around $34 billion, with roughly 411 million of the smart devices sold, according to industry analyst firm CCS Insight.

The recent years have witnessed unprecedented interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies. After lumbering in the background while promising to transform computing and businesses, AI is finally coming to the fore. And, AI benefits are ensuring AI is making its presence felt loud and clear across the industries. And how exactly using AI benefits industries? Autonomous car manufacturers heavily rely on it to guide its vehicles, retail sectors use robots in their warehouses, banks are starting to experiment with intelligent robots for customer service, consulting firms employ it to build and use complex financial models, hospitals are increasingly looking at intelligent solutions to provide top-notch and personalized health care to patients, and so on. AI-powered solutions are poised to be truly disruptive and greatly benefit early adopters who might emerge into tomorrow's conglomerates.

A U.S. based company named Proterra is a manufacturer of electric buses. Each bus has an average of 360 miles range before requiring a battery recharge. This company is taking its buses to a new level by developing self-driven, mass transit vehicles. A series of experiments are in progress in Reno, Nevada. The purpose of operating the self-driven electric buses in various traffic situations is to figure out the changes needed in the city's infrastructure to prepare for autonomous public transportation.