This episode brings two esteemed experts to discuss these issues and present guidance for both commercial companies and the public sector policymakers. Dr. David A. Bray began work in public service at age 15, later serving in the private sector before returning as IT Chief for the CDC's Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program during 9/11; volunteering to deploy to Afghanistan to "think differently" on military and humanitarian issues; and serving as a Senior Executive advocating for increased information interoperability, cybersecurity, and civil liberty protections. He serves as a Visiting Executive In-Residence at Harvard University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Visiting Associate at the University of Oxford. He has received both the Arthur S, Flemming Award and Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership. In 2015, he was chosen to be an Eisenhower Fellow to Taiwan and Australia and in 2016, Business Insider named him one of the top "24 Americans Who Are Changing the World".

Make mine with extra pepper-droney! Domino's home delivers piping hot pizza using a DRONE in a world-first delivery New Zealand customers have their Domino's pizzas delivered by a drone Drone delivery is a world first initiative by the fast food chain and Flirtey A small robot uses GPS to deliver the piping hot pizzas to customers The drone will help bypass traffic to reach a ten minute delivery target New Zealand customers have their Domino's pizzas delivered by a drone The pizza delivery by drone was a world first by Domino's Pizza and independent drone delivery service, Flirtey For the time being, the deliveries by drone will be conducted from the Whangaparaoa store before it expands across New Zealand and then Australia. The'healthy' foods that nutritionists would NEVER eat -... Best way to show you care? Give them a cuppa: Making a tea,... The'healthy' foods that nutritionists would NEVER eat -... Best way to show you care?

Look, we'll admit we had our doubts about the wonderfully convenient idea of drone pizza deliveries. But Domino's Pizza says it's done it for real this time. The chain said it made its first commercial delivery in New Zealand to an actual, real human customer on Wednesday at 11:19 a.m. The drone delivery was even approved by the country's civil aviation authority. The order was for a peri-peri chicken pizza and chicken and cranberry pizza (odd choice, but OK), and delivered to a customer in the suburb of Whangaparaoa, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Auckland.

Domino's has on Wednesday successfully completed the delivery of a pizza to a customer in New Zealand, using a drone as its mode of transport. The unmanned aerial vehicle, DRU Drone by Flirtey, was autonomously controlled using GPS navigation, delivered to the yard of a residence in Whangaparaoa, 25km north of Auckland. Domino's Group CEO and managing director Don Meij said he believes drone delivery will be an essential component of the organisation's pizza delivery process. Clear-cut definition of de-identified data critical in legislation: Pilgrim Department of Finance to rebuild two-year-old IT system Turnbull's DTA to establish a whole-of-government program management office Vodafone continues losing customers as Telstra, Optus, Amaysim gain: Kantar "We will be conducting more delivery flights to customers from the Whangaparaoa store this week, and will use the information we gather to expand drone flights to a larger DRU Drone by Flirtey delivery area next year," Meij said. "We expect DRU Drone by Flirtey to be an essential addition to our delivery fleet."

Australia's descent into a federal government-backed biometric future began on Wednesday, with the first three agencies to be on board the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). The first tranche of data to be swapped by the new Face Verification Service will be citizenship images, with visa, passport, and driver licence photos to follow. In August last year, the Attorney-General's Department (AGD) said access would be expanded to include the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Defence, and the AGD. Clear-cut definition of de-identified data critical in legislation: Pilgrim Department of Finance to rebuild two-year-old IT system Turnbull's DTA to establish a whole-of-government program management office Vodafone continues losing customers as Telstra, Optus, Amaysim gain: Kantar The AU$18.5 million system is designed to replace existing manual, ad-hoc facial image sharing arrangements between agencies to verify identities, and avoids the creation of a centralised database by agencies receiving queries running image searches against their own databases, an AGD fact sheet [PDF] claims. "Often, this response will be a simple'yes' or'no' to indicate whether two images are of the same person," AGD said.

WELLINGTON – The world's first pizza drone delivery was claimed Wednesday by the New Zealand division of fast food giant Domino's as it looks to grab a slice of a potentially hot future market. Domino's said it used an unmanned aerial vehicle to deliver two pizzas to a customer at Whangaparaoa, just north of Auckland. The firm's boss Don Meij said drones are set to become an essential part of pizza deliveries. "They can avoid traffic congestion and traffic lights, and safely reduce the delivery time and distance by traveling directly to customers' homes," he said. Today's successful delivery was an important proof of this concept."

Some scientists devote themselves to curing diseases. Others are researching an end to famine or global climate change. And some spend their time making nightmare machines, deep learning algorithms that utilize Artificial Intelligence to tap into humans' deepest and darkest fears. Like Google's Deep Dream, only with way more dangling, bloodied flesh. MIT teamed up with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to create the "nightmare machine" in an attempt to study what terrifies us as a species, utilizing a pair of deep learning algorithms for maximum terrorizing impact and applying them to otherwise benign images like the Taj Mahal, an Ikea catalog and, naturally, Kermit the Frog.

It's one thing to want to protect endangered animals, but another entirely to keep track of them. Case in point: the dugong, a medium-sized marine mammal often referred to as a sea cow. Cute they may be, but spotting them in large bodies of water is easier said than done. Since marine researchers want to do so to keep tabs on population sizes, conservation status, and their important habitat areas, that poses a bit of a problem. Fortunately, this is where Dr. Amanda Hodgson of Australia's Murdoch University comes in.

More than half of students are chasing careers that will be made obsolete by advances in technology and automation, according to a report by the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA). The report, entitled The New Work Order, makes recommendations to ensure that Australia's young people are being trained for the future of work, not for the'traditional' model of employment. In a worrying finding, the report states that 70 per cent of young people currently enter the workforce in jobs that will be "radically affected by automation". The CEO of FYA, Jan Owen, said that while the unemployment and underemployment rate for young people in Australia is already around 30 per cent, the chances of getting a foothold in the labour market are going to keep shrinking. This now famous establishment opened two years ago in the Shinjuku district 2/9 The Robot Restaurant Dancers dressed as futuristic characters perform during a show at The Robot Restaurant 3/9 The Robot Restaurant Performances are held three times a day and cater mostly to foreign tourists 4/9 The Robot Restaurant The Robot Restaurant has gained notoriety for its mind-boggling sci-fi cabaret show and its garishly illuminated interior 5/9 The Robot Restaurant The restaurant was completed in 2012 at a cost of $10 million.

The next frontier for artificial intelligence may involve teaching computers to distinguish albacore tuna from its yellowfin cousin. The Nature Conservancy, an environmental non-profit, is working with several Pacific Island nations and a big tuna fishing company to more easily count and identify fish caught at sea using cutting edge technology. The goal is to use trendy artificial intelligence techniques like deep learning to help fishermen reduce the number of protected animals like sharks and turtles that are accidentally caught along with the tuna. The Nature Conservancy hopes that the program could prevent overfishing and help threatened and endangered sea life recover without putting fishermen out of work. "We have real optimism that data science community can help us differentiate a turtle from a tuna, and flag when a shark comes on board," said Mark Zimring, a project director for The Nature Conservancy.