Cognisess is a predictive people analytics company that supports companies in selecting, recruiting and managing employees by eliminating bias and making the recruitment process fairer, more efficient and more accurate. Global recruitment faces two disruptive challenges in the next decade. Globalisation will become even more complex and the speed of technological change will become more rapid. Globalisation is entering a new period of tension and competition as geo-politics such as the Trump administration and Brexit re-cast the old order of world trade towards a new operating system for the global economy. Meanwhile disruptive technologies are cleaving into long standing business sectors that have enjoyed many decades of certainty and, in some cases, hegemony.

The Defence CRC is a collaborative program that brings together academia, publicly funded research agencies, industry (particularly small to medium enterprises) to create an interlocking research and innovation capability that is focused on driving a Defence outcome. These two signature innovation research and development programs, together with the Centre for Defence Industry Capability, deliver on the government's $1.6 billion commitment to grow Australia's defence industry and innovation sector. Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne said the first Defence CRC will focus on Trusted Autonomous Systems to deliver'game-changing' unmanned platforms that ensure reliable and effective cooperation between people and machines during dynamic military operations. "The CRC environment offers excellent synergies for Defence, industry and universities to collaborate closely on Defence innovation," Minister Pyne said.

The Department of Defence has delved into researching'Trusted Autonomous Systems' (aka, robots), as part of the Turnbull government's $50 million investment into launching the Defence Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). The Defence CRC is a collaborative program that brings together academia, publicly funded research agencies, industry (particularly small to medium enterprises) to create an interlocking research and innovation capability that is focused on driving a Defence outcome. It is a federal government initiative of the Next Generation Technologies Fund, which complements the Defence Innovation Hub as the two core initiatives of the new Defence Innovation System outlined in the Government's Defence Industry Policy Statement. These two signature innovation research and development programs, together with the Centre for Defence Industry Capability, deliver on the government's $1.6 billion commitment to grow Australia's defence industry and innovation sector. Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne said the first Defence CRC will focus on Trusted Autonomous Systems to deliver'game-changing' unmanned platforms that ensure reliable and effective cooperation between people and machines during dynamic military operations.

WASHINGTON – A robotics team of six girls from Afghanistan is attending an international competition in Washington, after clearing visa obstacles that prompted intervention from President Donald Trump. The team was the first to be introduced at an opening ceremony Sunday for the three-day high school competition. They will compete against entrants from more than 150 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge. It's the first annual robotics competition designed to encourage youths to pursue careers in math and science. The girls are entering a robot they made that can recognize blue and orange and sort balls into correct locations.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Tonga on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, at a depth of 97 km (60 miles), was located 180 km (112 miles) south-southwest of Neita in Tonga. No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake. Not all U.S. presidents are missed once they leave the White House. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO urged governors to regulate artificial intelligence before it's too late.

Tech companies and investors have recently been piling money into artificial intelligence--and plenty has been trickling down to chip maker Nvidia. The company's revenues have climbed as it has started making hardware customized for machine-learning algorithms and use cases such as autonomous cars. At the company's annual developer conference in San Jose, California, this week, the company's CEO Jensen Huang spoke to MIT Technology Review about how the machine-learning revolution is just starting. Nvidia has benefitted from a rapid explosion of investment in machine learning from tech companies. Can this rapid growth in the use cases for machine learning continue?

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's military will be more readily deployed to respond to "terrorist incidents" on home soil under proposed changes to laws announced by the government on Monday. The government said in a statement that state and territory police forces remained the best first response, but the military could offer additional support to enhance their capabilities. Australia has seen a series of "lone wolf" Islamist-inspired attacks, prompting a review of police tactics and the powers of state and federal authorities. "The key thing we need is the most flexible possible arrangements -- the threat's changed very significantly," Justice Minister Michael Keenan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. Under the proposed law changes, state and territory governments would be able to call for military aid before the ability to respond to an incident exceeds the capabilities of their police forces.

Edwards said Tesla asked for the one-on-one meeting with Musk, which was short. "I just asked him to come down to Louisiana and sit down with us, sit down with the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association and work out some sort of a compromise, which they have successfully done in other states," Edwards said. Allowing manufacturer-to-consumer sales also came up in meetings between Musk and two other governors -- the conference's host, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Representatives for the two Democrats confirmed they had private meetings with Musk and the topic came up. Musk didn't address such rules in his public remarks, but he did speak about regulation generally -- and reiterated his long-held argument that it is needed soon to protect humanity from being outsmarted by computers, or "deep intelligence in the network" that can start wars by manipulating information.

The subjugation of humanity by a race of super-smart, artificially intelligent beings is something that has been theorized by everyone from generations of moviemakers to New Zealand's fourth-most-popular folk-parody duo. But the latest prophet of our cyber-fueled downfall must realize why people would be inclined to take his warnings with a grain of silicon. He is, after all, the same guy who's asking us to turn over control of our cars -- and our lives -- to a bunch of algorithms. Elon Musk, who hopes that one day everyone will ride in a self-driving, electric-powered Tesla, told a group of governors Saturday that they needed to get on the ball and start regulating artificial intelligence, which he called a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization." When pressed for better guidance, Musk said the government must get a better understanding of the latest achievements in artificial intelligence before it's too late.

Members of a female robotics team from Afghanistan Robotic House, a private training institute, arrive from Herat province to receive visas from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 13. At the urging of President Donald Trump, U.S. officials have reversed course and decided to allow into the United States a group of Afghan girls hoping to participate in an international robotics competition next week, senior administration officials told POLITICO on Wednesday. The decision followed a furious public backlash to the news that the six teens had been denied U.S. visas. That criticism swelled as details emerged about the girls' struggle to build their robot and get visas. "The State Department worked incredibly well with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that this case was reviewed and handled appropriately," Dina Powell, Trump's deputy national security adviser for strategy, said in a statement.