Ask five people who follow the video games industry what to expect from an E3 press conference and they'll all paint you a similar picture. Bright lights on a big stage, lengthy cinematic trailers for shooters starring gravelly-voiced stubble-faced white men, interspersed with awkward patter from white men in suits (or, depending on the publisher, suit jackets and T-shirts and trainers), cheered and whooped at by a largely white male audience. This industry is often unwelcoming to women and underrepresented minorities, and these widely watched events do little to counter that. Of course, some conferences do better than others. This year, we've judged EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Sony for the diversity of their speakers and of the games and characters on show.

Another big part of the food supply comes from ranches and farms that raise and slaughter various livestock. While ranching is sometimes bundled with agriculture, I discussed farming in Big Data in Agriculture, so we'll focus on ranching this time around. Somewhat surprising is that big data usage in ranching appears more limited than in farming. That said, there are a number of novel uses of technology and data in animal husbandry. At a high level, the goals of ranching and farming are the same as any business: increase yields and lower costs. Production maximization has long played a role in large operations.

Despite the hardware news this week, E3 2016 is still all about the games. For gamers, that means a bounty of new trailers revealing gameplay and cinematic introductions to new worlds. Whether you're a fan of the PC, Xbox One or PlayStation, it's hard not to get excited about what's ahead. This may be the most buzzed-about trailer coming out of E3 2016. The first game from "Metal Gear Solid" creator Hideo Kojima after his departure from Konami was always going to be a big deal, but then you add some really interesting visuals and a naked Norman Reedus, better known as Daryl from "The Walking Dead," holding a baby and that's a recipe for success.

SAP SE is exploring augmented reality and intelligent assistant software in initiatives intended to boost employee productivity, according to new SAP CIO Thomas Saueressig, who at 31 is the youngest CIOworking for a global 2000 company. More productive employees will ultimately improve the business software maker's ability to serve customers, one of the German company's core tenets. "I fundamentally believe that the new generation and the expectations of our customers and our employees are changing so significantly," says Saueressig, who took over for Helen Arnold on May 1. "And we need to shift our focus purely on the end-user [employees and customers]." Saueressig is something of a rarity among first-time IT leaders. As a millennial, he is a member of a generation HPE CEO Meg Whitman describes as as supremely confident if not entitled.

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.