American technology companies are traveling to the other side of the world to raise a buck. The underwater drone company Aquabotix is one U.S. startup eyeing the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as a venue to publicly list, rather than looking for venture capital at home. If successful, it will join 12 U.S. tech listings to take place in Australia since 2013. There's fellow drone tech company Droneshield, which listed in 2016, as well as the troubled HR software startup, 1-Page in 2014. So why are they all heading south?

Over the past two decades or so eCommerce has undergone a major change. The speed of this change has been, and continues to be, amazing. The world wide web got invented in 1989, became available on the Internet in 1991; first web sites humbly started as additional marketing channels, with corporate web sites giving information on the company and a product catalogue; 1994 the Netscape browser arrived. In 1995 Amazon got founded – and the story started to take off. In 2000 we saw US online shopping eclipsing the 25 billion dollar mark.

One Monday afternoon in April 2013, 19-year-old Jordan Green was working in a liquor store in Adelaide, Australia, when two men in balaclavas holding a shotgun entered the store, jumped the counter, held the gun to his head, and demanded his co-worker open the store's safe. It isn't the typical foundation for a company, but this is how Jemsoft was born. As a pragmatist, Green told ZDNet that he approached the situation by questioning how they entered the store with automatic doors and security cameras. Fortunately, Green was also a programmer involved in robotics. "The question in my head was why is it that someone who so clearly was not here to grab a slab could come into the local bottle-o and threaten my life and the life of my co-worker -- who to my knowledge has not returned to work. You could say that I took a pretty radical career change because I then left uni, left that job, and tried to build a company, which is not something a sane person would do," he said.

Apple is being sued by Australia, after its phones started breaking with no warning. A new case from the country's consumer watchdog accuses the company of "bricking", or remotely disabling, phones with a software update. That follows the controversy over what was dubbed "Error 53" – named after the message that was displayed after the update arrived and wouldn't allow people to use their phone. Specifically, the problem arose when people had their screens fixed by a non-Apple repairer. That triggered what Apple said was a security measure, but others complained was an unfair change, which meant that the phones wouldn't turn back on and couldn't be fixed again by Apple. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

Triplet networks are widely used models that are characterized by good performance in classification and retrieval tasks. In this work we propose to train a triplet network by putting it as the discriminator in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs). We make use of the good capability of representation learning of the discriminator to increase the predictive quality of the model. We evaluated our approach on Cifar10 and MNIST datasets and observed significant improvement on the classification performance using the simple k-nn method.

Artificial intelligence is a hot topic in theoretical and applied research, as well as in general discussions about the profound impact it may have on individuals, industries and economies. The new Centre for Artificial Intelligence at UTS (UTS: CAI) will focus on the theoretical foundations and advanced technologies that will create intelligent machines with greater capacity for perception, learning and reasoning. "Establishing this centre gives us the opportunity to explore beyond core technology and into the impact of our discoveries. This includes the ethics of artificial intelligence, such as interrogating the way it will impact the future of work; and moral decisions we will need to explore around developments such as driverless vehicles," Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Professor Glenn Wightwick told guests at the launch event. NSW Chief Scientist Professor Mary O'Kane pointed to Australia's well-established research into AI, which included her own experience gaining a PhD in the 1970s at the NSW Institute of Technology, now UTS.

We implemented several multilabel classification algorithms in the machine learning package mlr. The implemented methods are binary relevance, classifier chains, nested stacking, dependent binary relevance and stacking, which can be used with any base learner that is accessible in mlr. Moreover, there is access to the multilabel classification versions of randomForestSRC and rFerns. All these methods can be easily compared by different implemented multilabel performance measures and resampling methods in the standardized mlr framework. In a benchmark experiment with several multilabel datasets, the performance of the different methods is evaluated.

Have you ever dreamt of gazing into the eyes of chatbot while explaining your frustration with a service? If so, that would be oddly specific, but you'd also be in luck, thanks to an ambitious New Zealand startup. The company, which has the eerie name of Soul Machines, has created a virtual chatbot that can not only portray human emotion, but also read human facial expressions. The aim is to take chatbot service to the next level by humanizing the interaction between man and machine, basically by making them more like us. We've teamed up with Product Hunt to offer you the chance to win an all expense paid trip to TNW Conference 2017!

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is undergoing unprecedented growth. AI development is finding its way into all areas of business and, increasingly, into creative endeavors. Despite the obvious difficulties, Canva, The Grid, and Autodesk have all tried to market AI design algorithms, with varying degrees of failure. Adobe is understood to be working on AI enhancements to its Creative Cloud product range. Eventually, someone will arrive at a mathematical formula that approximates the creative process.

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