Sydney legal startup LegalVision announced today that it has secured 4.2 million in a Series B round to continue its growth in the Australian online legal market. The funding round was led by commercial law firm Gilbert Tobin, who previously made a strategic investment into LegalVision last November. LegalVision delivers legal services through a tech-driven business model, helping businesses around Australia access quality resources by providing startups and SMBs with access to more than 3,000 legal articles and 40 free legal documents. In just over three years the startup reports that it has assisted more than 15,000 business around the country. CEO of LegalVision, Lachlan McKnight said the backing of Gilbert Tobin and the latest round of funding is validation of the startup's goal and progress to date.

Access to huge corpus of data and massive compute power fall in the hands of the few. While market leaders and fast followers have not yet achieved mass personalisation, the next rush is focused on investments in artificial intelligence (see Figure 1). Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXOs have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next big thing. The investment in pilots for AI's subsets of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing have moved from science projects to new digital business models powered by smart services. With the goal of precision decisions, successful AI projects require more than just great algorithms or access to data scientists.

SpaceX's spacecraft Dragon splashed down into the the Pacific Friday morning, just off Mexico's Baja California coast. On board the capsule were 3,000 pounds of scientific research and equipment delivered back to Earth from the International Space Station. "Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed," SpaceX reported via Twitter, as its employees readied to retrieve the capsule, which also had 12 mice onboard. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, who joined the space station crew in July, along with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, released the capsule into space at 6:11 a.m. The space laboratory was orbiting over Australia at the time.

A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one- or two-gram shaped charge. You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to say: "Here are thousands of photographs of the kinds of things I want to target." A one-gram shaped charge can punch a hole in nine millimeters of steel, so presumably you can also punch a hole in someone's head. You can fit about three million of those in a semi-tractor-trailer. You can drive up I-95 with three trucks and have 10 million weapons attacking New York City. They don't have to be very effective, only 5 or 10% of them have to find the target. There will be manufacturers producing millions of these weapons that people will be able to buy just like you can buy guns now, except millions of guns don't matter unless you have a million soldiers. You need only three guys to write the program and launch them. So you can just imagine that in many parts of the world humans will be hunted. They will be cowering underground in shelters and devising techniques so that they don't get detected. This is the ever-present cloud of lethal autonomous weapons. Mary Wareham laughs a lot. It usually sounds the same regardless of the circumstance -- like a mirthful giggle the blonde New Zealander can't suppress -- but it bubbles up at the most varied moments. Wareham laughs when things are funny, she laughs when things are awkward, she laughs when she disagrees with you. And she laughs when things are truly unpleasant, like when you're talking to her about how humanity might soon be annihilated by killer robots and the world is doing nothing to stop it. One afternoon this spring at the United Nations in Geneva, I sat behind Wareham in a large wood-paneled, beige-carpeted assembly room that hosted the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), a group of 121 countries that have signed the agreement to restrict weapons that "are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to combatants or to affect civilians indiscriminately"-- in other words, weapons humanity deems too cruel to use in war. The UN moves at a glacial pace, but the CCW is even worse.

NASA video shows a robotic arm releasing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station over Australia. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule left the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. The capsule is carrying 3,000 pounds of cargo after a month at the outpost. CAPE CANAVERAL -- A SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth on Friday after staying more than a month at the International Space Station. A robotic arm released the unmanned capsule packed with 3,000 pounds of cargo at 6:11 a.m.

NASA video shows a robotic arm releasing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station over Australia. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. NASA video shows a robotic arm releasing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station over Australia.

Today on In Case You Missed It: Global pizza company Domino's is teaming up with drone delivery company Flirtey to launch an actual pie delivery service, via UAV, in New Zealand. The company has passed checks by the country's Civil Aviation Authority and aims to begin tests later this year. Meanwhile virtual reality gamers are (understandably) losing it over the latest thing to make VR look incredible: Dexmo exoskeleton gloves that are worn, then react as though objects within games are actually being manipulated. And in case you're wondering, the story detailing Uber's financial losses of over 1 billion so far this year is based on a story from Bloomberg that cites finance director Gautam Gupta, who reportedly said most of the losses come from compensation of its drivers. Considering Uber drivers have fought the company in union organizing efforts, this story is likely to keep developing. You can watch the adorable incoming fourth grader from Austin here, and the domino tower collapsing from 19 feet here.

CANBERRA, Australia--A weekend spent mothering a robot baby to mirror the "real experience" of parenting is meant to discourage teenage girls from getting pregnant. But so-called Baby Think it Over dolls don't cut teen pregnancy rates and in fact increase the risk, Australian research has found. In a study published in The Lancet medical journal Friday, researchers found teenage girls who used the lifelike computerized dolls as part of a pregnancy-prevention program were more likely to become pregnant compared with girls receiving a less high-tech sex education. "The program was supposed to put students off and then they would take extra steps not to get pregnant," said study author Sally Brinkman, of the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia. "Unfortunately, and surprisingly for us, the intervention we can say definitely didn't work and it actually seemed to increase the pregnancy rates.

Robot babies, pregnancy prevention programs increase pregnancy rates in teens @telethonkidshttps://t.co/NiobW0XGPd pic.twitter.com/DDlsUhTh1f The lifelike dolls are meant to teach teenage girls what it's like to raise an infant, warts and all. As part of high school sex-ed programs around the world, teachers give infant simulators to their female students, who care for the robots over the course of a few days. The babies, which can run about 1,000 apiece, are programmed to cry, scream and sleep. Computers tucked within the dolls register when the babies are changed, burped, fed or -- in instances where everything goes drastically wrong -- when they "die." "We've had midnight telephone calls from parents saying: 'Please tell me how to turn it off, my daughter's going crazy,'" as Janette Collins, a London-based youth counselor said to the Financial Times last October.

The world depends on coral reefs, but they're disappearing – ravaged by climate change, coastal development, overfishing and pollution. With a quarter of Earth's reefs already gone, scientists are racing to save them, and they're getting a big boost from GPU-accelerated deep learning. Although reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, they provide food and shelter for more than a quarter of all marine species, support fish stocks that feed more than a billion people and provide jobs to millions of people in coastal areas. Scientists study images of coral reefs to measure reef health and changes over time. That's now done by human experts, but it's costly and time-consuming.