A 100 million financing round has raised a cyber-security company's value to 1 billion, garnering it membership of the so-called unicorn club. Not much to see here, you might say, given that the list of unicorns grows each day and analysts are divided between those who talk about a new bubble and those who insist that it's traditional companies that are overvalued. In other words, by training a machine to think like a hacker and apply the growing and constantly changing range of tools to try to detect the threats its clients face. The company, which has a long list of corporate clients and income stream very different to the typical startup that bets everything on future growth, is far from unique, and reflects the increasingly clear tendency trumpeted by Kevin Kelly in a 2014 Wired article called "The three breakthroughs that have finally unleashed AI on the world", which argues that the business plans of the next 10,000 startups were easy to predict: "take X and add some artificial intelligence." Those three elements are: the existence of ever-cheaper and more easily available cloud-based computing resources able to substitute the huge and expensive super-computers that used to carry out these complex and multi-dimensional tasks. Then there is the availability of ever-bigger archives of transactional and other types of data produced by the electronic tracing of our everyday lives, and that require immense data bases to train algorithms.

Microsoft has launched its smallest Xbox games console - the Xbox One S - at the E3 gaming event in Los Angeles, but then revealed it was working on something even more powerful. The new console, which comes in a colour called'robot white', is 40 per cent smaller than the original Xbox One and has abandoned the bulky power external supply seen in previous consoles. It also supports 4K Ultra HD video, but will also come with up to 2TB of internal hard disk space. But Microsoft said it will be dwarfed by a new console it plans to launch in 2017. Codenamed Project Scropio, the newly announced system will aim to deliver true 4K Ultra HD gaming with what Microsoft claims will be the'most powerful games console ever built'.

Light globes that change colour with the tap of an app, coffee machines you can talk to, and ovens that know exactly how long to cook your food: our homes are getting smart. These devices, just a few examples of what is known as "the internet of things" (or IOT), have been called the "next great disruptor" and "the second digital revolution". One of the great hopes of this revolution is that it will help households save energy. Sensors can turn off lights and appliances when not in use, or turn the heating down when people go to bed. Smartphone apps can provide households with more insight into the energy use of their appliances.

As much as we tend to cringe when referring to the term' hipster culture' – we think there's some practical value to scoring suburbs on their (dare I say it) trendiness. At the end of the day, living somewhere that has character and access to good food and coffee trumps the alternative. Microburbs, an online property tool that launched last year, uses an algorithm to give suburbs – and even smaller pockets of land within them (thus the'micro') – a rating based on their cultural vibe. According to the algorithm, Sydney has the most'hipster' suburbs with Darlinghurst rating 9.9/10 and Surry Hills 9.9/10. Meanwhile, Melbourne hosts 21 suburbs with a score above 9, while Sydney has 20. So judging by this, it's still a little unclear which city comes up on top.

Patricio Pagani is an executive director at Infotools, and is responsible for all clients and new business in the Americas. Patricio's research career started in 2000, at Coca-Cola. He joined Infotools in 2004. Former president of the New Zealand Market Research Society and current ESOMAR representative, Patricio is a sought-after public speaker worldwide. As an Argentinean who lived in New Zealand for ten years, he is quite fond of rugby, while staying loyal to his other passions… football and playing the guitar.

U.S. drone operators had been stalking the baby-faced British terrorist for days with infrared cameras and other sensors before the order came to kill him. As night fell on April 25, a U.S. warplane dropped a guided-bomb that obliterated the SUV occupied by 23-year-old Raphael Saihou Hostey near Mosul, Islamic State's stronghold in Iraq. Hostey, a recruiter for the militants, was targeted by a U.S. military campaign that has singled out and killed more than 120 Islamic State leaders, commanders, propagandists, recruiters and other so-called high-value individuals so far this year, officials said. The leadership attacks have picked up recently due to intelligence collected by special operations teams on night raids, from captured militants, and from intercepts of emails, cellphones and other communications. The focus on Islamic State's command and control structure, including its recruitment and funding systems, has helped weaken the Sunni extremist group as Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish forces press the militants on the battlefield.

Tracking customers in real-time, zero-click ordering and delivering pizzas via artificially intelligent robots are just some of the latest innovations underway at Domino's. The pizza retailer today launched the first in a proposed series of tech innovation events, under the brand'Abacus', showcasing the way digital and technology is being harnessed by the business. Ten innovations were detailed, some of which will be available from next week, while others will be rolled out over the coming 12-24 months.All stemmed from the theme'time is the enemy of food' and showed the power of harnessing data analytics not only for operational process improvements, but also for tailoring customer experiences and interaction. The first of these is On-Time Cooking, an extension of the GPS Driver Tracker capabilities Domino's has been providing for the last 10 years aimed at shortening the time between cooking a pizza and when customers pick up their order. Domino's A/NZ managing director, Don Meij, said that until now, stores haven't known exactly when a customer will arrive, running the risk of pizzas sitting on the rack for 10 or 20 minutes longer than they should.

From 1992 to 2001, Dan Goldin served as the longest-tenured Adminstrator of NASA, overseeing projects like the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the redesign of the International Space Station. After leaving NASA, Goldin spent some time bouncing around and studying robotics, before accepting a position as the president of Boston University in 2003 -- a position Goldin never officially held, because the school terminated his contract a day before he was slated to start, though he still got a 1.8 million payout. And then, Goldin mostly vanished from the public eye for over ten years. Today, the 75-year-old Goldin has reemerged to reveal what he's been working on for the last decade: KnuEdge, a top-secret startup based in San Diego, with a mission to one-up Google, AMD, and Intel with the "fundamental invention" of the next-generation computer processor. "I'm not an incrementalist; I wanted to wait for the grand slam," Goldin tells Business Insider.

A simple Google image search highlighted on Twitter has been said to highlight the pervasiveness of racial bias and media profiling. "Three black teenagers" was a trending search on Google on Thursday after a US high school student pointed out the stark difference in results for "three black teenagers" and "three white teenagers". Kabir Alli of Virginia posted a clip to Twitter of himself carrying out a straightforward search of "three black teenagers", which overwhelmingly turns up prisoners' mugshots. He and others erupt in laughter when the result for "three white teenagers" show stock photos of smiling, wholesome-looking young people. The tweet has been retweeted by more than 60,100 users and favourited nearly 55,500 times since it was posted on Tuesday – but Alli's video was later reposted by World Star Hip Hop, an entertainment website with an enormous following on social media.

Tracking consumers in real-time, zero-click ordering and delivering pizzas via artificially intelligent robots are just some of the latest innovations underway at Domino's. The pizza retailer today launched the first in a proposed series of tech innovation events, under the brand'Abacus', showcasing the way digital and technology is being harnessed by the business. Ten innovations were detailed, some of which will be available from next week, while others will be rolled out over the coming 12-24 months.All stemmed from the theme'time is the enemy of food' and showed the power of harnessing data analytics not only for operational process improvements, but also for tailoring customer experiences and interaction. The first of these is On-Time Cooking, an extension of the GPS Driver Tracker capabilities Domino's has been providing for the last 10 years aimed at shortening the time between cooking a pizza and when customers pick up their order. Domino's A/NZ managing director, Don Meij, said that until now, stores haven't known exactly when a customer will arrive, running the risk of pizzas sitting on the rack for 10 or 20 minutes longer than they should.