Frequent flyers will probably go for beam-me-down technology or that elusive flying car, but universal language translation would probably be pretty high up most people’s lists too. And unlike food ...

Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal with.

Google on Tuesday announced that its Chrome web browser a new beta feature allowing for instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins. Google says ...