Meet'Baby Boom': The supersonic passenger airliner that can fly Sydney to Los Angeles in just SIX HOURS Subscale XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator prototype was created by aerospace firm Boom New jet would cut the long haul journey from Sydney to Los Angeles to just six hours in total Jet is nicknamed'Baby Boom' and will be scaled up as a passenger plane for 45 passengers It will reach speeds of up to 2,335 km/h and travel from New York to London in 3.5 hours Jet is nicknamed'Baby Boom' and will be scaled up as a passenger plane for 45 passengers It will reach speeds of up to 2,335 km/h and travel from New York to London in 3.5 hours A sub-scale prototype of a futuristic supersonic passenger airliner could make travel even easier, making flights from Sydney to Los Angeles just six hours in the future. Claimed to be the'world's fastest civil aircraft ever made', the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator is due to take off on its first test flight in late 2017 and journey from Sydney to Los Angeles to just six hours in total Millions of devastated Tinder users are forced to spend a... Is Spotify damaging your hard drive? A bug that could harm... Google's self-driving cars can now perform tricky... The smartwatch that NEVER needs charging: Timepiece draws... Millions of devastated Tinder users are forced to spend a... Is Spotify damaging your hard drive? A bug that could harm... Google's self-driving cars can now perform tricky...

The Japanese inventor received ¥6 billion ($53 million) from partners, including Panasonic Corp., last month to advance "the Laundroid" -- a robot Sakane is developing to not only wash and dry garments, but also sort, fold and neatly arrange them. The refrigerator-size device could eventually fill the roles of washing machine, dryer and clothes drawer in people's homes. Sakane, whose earlier inventions include an anti-snoring device and golf clubs made of space materials, said the funding will bring closer his dream of liberating humanity from laundry. Among his inspirations for the project is the 1968 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi film classic "2001: A Space Odyssey." Laundroid was designed to resemble the mysterious objects in the film that brought technology to prehistoric humans, and the project was originally code-named "Monolith."

A few months back I was making my way through the latest literature on "real time analytics" and "in stream analytics" and my blood pressure was rising. The cause was the developer-driven hyperbole that claimed that the creation of brand new insights using advanced analytics has become "real time". The issue then as now is the failure to differentiate between time-to-action and time-to-insight. Not infrequently the statements about'fast data' are accompanied by a diagram like this, which to me has a fatal flaw. The flaw, to my way of thinking, is that there are really two completely different tasks here with very different time frames.

Programming is an integral part of data science. Among other things, it is considered that a mind which understands programming logic, loops, and functions has higher chances of becoming a successful data scientist. So, what about people who never studied programming subject in their school or college? RM covers the entire life-cycle of prediction modeling, starting from data preparation to model building and finally validation and deployment. DataRobot (DR) is a highly automated machine-learning platform built by all time best Kagglers including Jeremy Achin, Thoman DeGodoy and Owen Zhang.

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cylance Inc., the company that is revolutionising cybersecurity with the practical application of artificial intelligence to prevent the most advanced cyber threats, today announced that it has selected Arrow Electronics, Inc. as its distributor in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). This year, Cylance announced its initial launch into Australia to service market growth across Asia Pacific. Arrow will support Cylance in expanding its regional footprint and providing customers with cyberattack prevention technology where traditional anti-virus software has failed. According to Andy Solterbeck, vice president of Cylance Asia Pacific, Arrow was selected because of its extensive security experience and credentials in the local region. "We are excited to work with Arrow as a distributor that is recognised for its proven track record of releasing highly disruptive technologies into the Australia and New Zealand markets. We look forward to leveraging Arrow's infrastructure and reseller programs to scale the business and enable our customers to upskill quickly," said Solterbeck.

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Just Eat has today laid claim to delivering the first takeaway meal by autonomous robot. The online ordering company has been working with Starship Technologies since July, testing the latter's "last-mile" delivery robots in Greenwich, London. But these tamperproof, pavement-pounding boxes on wheels are now in active service in the area, after the first, apparently unknowing customer successfully received their falafel and lamb cutlets from a local Turkish eatery. While customers are not be able to actively choose robot as their preferred delivery option yet, Just Eat says Greenwich "will increasingly be serviced by the technology," ahead of plans to expand the rollout (no pun intended) to more parts of London next year. We're not sure Just Eat can really claim a world first here, though.

Artificial Intelligence may conjure up images of robots stealing all our jobs, but AI isn't futuristic. AI is as old as technology itself – the original AI systems operated more as search engines, where you inputted information and organised data comes back. It essentially is data-driven, but requires human expertise to apply answers and discoveries to solve problems with it. AI technology has become widely used as elements of larger systems, but the field is rarely credited for these successes. Think of the latest advances in medical diagnosis, aviation, stock trading or robot control, and you're likely thinking of an innovation using AI at its core.

We study the problem of rank aggregation: given a set of ranked lists, we want to form a consensus ranking. Furthermore, we consider the case of extreme lists: i.e., only the rank of the best or worst elements are known. We impute missing ranks by the average value and generalise Spearman's \rho to extreme ranks. Our main contribution is the derivation of a non-parametric estimator for rank aggregation based on multivariate extensions of Spearman's \rho, which measures correlation between a set of ranked lists. Multivariate Spearman's \rho is defined using copulas, and we show that the geometric mean of normalised ranks maximises multivariate correlation. Motivated by this, we propose a weighted geometric mean approach for learning to rank which has a closed form least squares solution. When only the best or worst elements of a ranked list are known, we impute the missing ranks by the average value, allowing us to apply Spearman's \rho. Finally, we demonstrate good performance on the rank aggregation benchmarks MQ2007 and MQ2008.

An online robot lawyer designed to help people represent themselves in court state their case to the sentencing magistrate will be launched by a Melbourne law firm this week. Robot lawyer provides service for people unable to access legal aid Produces a template for people to read out as their statement when they go to court Only works if the person's answers to program's questions are'relatively predictable' Only works if the person's answers to program's questions are'relatively predictable' Bill Doogue, a partner at Doogue O'Brien George, said he had seen too many people -- up to 30 per cent -- going through the court system unrepresented. "You see people constantly come out of court and they're quite distressed, because they haven't told their story, they just haven't been able to," he said. Mr Doogue said while the template produced by the robot lawyer was only a starting point and not the whole process, it would help those people who turn up to court unprepared. "[Some people] are visibly distressed and uncomfortable talking and give monosyllabic answers to the magistrate, when they have a story they should be telling," he said.