endorsed mrs. clinton for president, fueling speculation warren could be on the short list for a running mate. donald trump tweeted -- goofy elizabeth warren, one of the least productive u.s. senators has a nasty mouth, hope she is vp choice. hockey legend gordie howe is dead. he played 26 seasons in the nhl and six in the world hockey association. nicknamed mr. hockey, he was a 23-time nhl all-star and is considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time. he was 88 years old. louisville, kentucky, is saying a final goodbye to his favorite son today p the world watch the body of boxing legend muhammad ali carried through the reeds of his hometown in a funeral service. the private graveside service was held later for the heavyweight champion. in the to faith memorial service took place at a sports arena packed with celebrities, comedians, athletes, politicians

, and fans of the man simply known as "the greatest." he was a muddy four years old or global news 24 hours a day he was 74 2400 -- years old. bloomberg west is next. ♪ -- emily chang. apple puts qualcomm chips on hold for intel p or we will discuss what it means for the three tech titans. gawker tagged out. the website has enforced into bankruptcy, it appears. tech forecaster says a car will soon be the smartest thing you own. we will reimagine the future of

your commute later this hour. days before apple's annual developers conference, the iphone maker announces a major change a month suppliers. -- amongst suppliers. the next iphones will use modems from intel, replacing qualcomm chips. qualcomm closed down 2%. they will be used on at&t u.s. network and some other version of the smartphone for overseas markets. iphones on the verizon network will stick with qualcomm cards. this is three days before the developer conference. what upgrades and announcements can we expect, and will they reinvigorate iphone sales? joining me are ian king and alex webb and a senior technology research analyst with drexel hamilton. why did apple pick intel? ian: they have not really announced it yet, it is more

hour reporting. the conjecture is if you are apple, you have one supplier, no good for price negotiations. just reliant upon one supplier, so why wouldn't you put yourself in a stronger position? emily: what are the numbers here? how much new business is this for intel question mark bad is it for qualcomm? sizable will be a order. there are numbers thrown around, but it is a big part of business for intel. at the moment, they are not really in this business in a sizable way. emily: what do you make of this change? >> it is about diversifying the supply base. if you have an opportunity to do that and intel can meet the specs, you should do it. it will help pricing and keep suppliers honest. it makes a lot of sense could

what i have heard is it sounds like it is more at&t, something like 20 million units. are the risks to putting new chips and a phone when you have so much pressure to perform? ian: counterparts elsewhere have said qualcomm is still miles ahead of intel in terms of performance of its parts, so by ,oing with what is, in theory not the best part you could have out there, apple is taking a risk. but apple will not put a part out there that has not been tested. network operators, as well. they have to go through the convoluted qualification process. it is hard to imagine that we will see a phone that is not any good any time soon. emily: what are we expecting? wwdc is really present software, not hardware, but given a slowdown in iphone sales, it puts increasing

emphasis on the software space. to tie people more closely to the product. we both the a rebound of apple music. and we will see a developer kit for siri. it might let you army as a consumer order a pizza or taxi through siri. s --: brian,. more about talk about siri. we have google home announced. amazon as amazon echo and alexa. how important is a new siri? brian: it is very important. if you can have a siri interact with third-party apps and one that is more aware and you ask it a question, i think it opens up a longer-term vision. i see apple getting involved in personal robots. hearinggot back from

about a personal robot being announced for $599. i think apple has an interest in robots, and i think siri would be the personality and voice behind that. emily: you did a big peas on apple music and about the changes coming, fairly dramatic changes -- you did a piece on apple music. what does apple do to get more users? easier to use. it is a bit of a nightmare now and a lot of ways. there will be big changes to the youth, and it is important for apple to fight off the rise of things like pandora. emily: brian, when it comes to selling were software, what does apple need to prove at wwdc? brian: these ovens give you little bit -- these events give you a little bit of a hint of what could be coming out in the next 12 months it more importantly, it builds and

ecosystem for the future. something around apple pay. there has been discussion around -peer payments and around being able to use apple pay on websites, about apple music and making it easier, and as we talked about, siri. software is important, and it is often called the soul of apple products. it is the differentiator for apple products to their competitors do not have hardware and software working together. they have hardware and rely on android for the software. that is how they continue to differentiate. emily: and this is gearing up to iphone 7, right? we assume there will be another release in the fall. as far as we know, it will be incremental as first changes to the hardware. ian: that is what the indicators are. it was reported recently, big changes in next year's product. that applies that this year's product will not be such a blockbuster. but there is some changes,

perhaps integration for touch, and that will be tied more closely the phones which use that come a making it more compelling. ian king,x lenwebb, and brian white, thank you we on monday.e at wwdc now the latest in the ongoing yahoo! saga. we know that the quicken loans founder and at&t have each bit about $5 billion for yahoo!'s core business patents and real estate assets. verizon has offered between three and a half dollars that $3.5 billion and $4 billion, but verizon is said to be interested in also buying yahoo!'s other assets, but the have been told the company wishes to sell them separately. verizon will have a chance to match or top any offer. we know the private equity firm tpg is still involved in bidding and yahoo! has received more than 10 bids.

we will bring the latest as details emerge. another story we're watching, the most popular mobile messaging service in japan hopes to rate one but -- raise $1 billion in ipo next month, putting them on track to become the year's biggest market debut for a tech company. they will sell shares and u.s. and japan at a valuation of about $5.5 billion. coming up, a big win for hulk hogan and his legal nemesis gawker is filing for bankruptcy. but it is not necessarily the end of the line for the empire. we will discuss. ♪

capital firmnture andreessen horowitz just closed another monster fund. they announced it raise $1.5

billion for a fun that will go early andcombo of middle stage investments. this is two years after posting another 1.5 million -- $1.5 billion fund. this will be used to back deceptive software companies -- disruptive software companies. have hulk hogan and peter thiel won there were with dr. media? the media committee filed for chat -- with gawker media? of site posted a sex tape hulk hogan online. gawker entered into an asset purchase agreement with the company for about $100 million. other bidders can still offer a higher price, and as that will be sold in a bankruptcy court supervised auction. as, andssman is joining gawker foris suing

defamation. thank you for joining us. mark: there is a valve that gawker will continue operations, and this bankruptcy gives some certain protections. how devastating is a bankruptcy filing for this company in reality? i do not think the bankruptcy filing itself is devastating. the bankruptcy filing is part of a very complex legal strategy to try to survive the florida court judgment. what is your reaction as someone who is suing gawker? shiva: i think it is actually a big win for journalism and what should be good journalism. anyone graduating journalism college now has a clear choice if they want to do copywriting for click baiting or if they want to be real journalists. i am extremely happy. obviously, our lawsuit was instrumental for gawker to take this strategy to try to protect

themselves. emily: i was thinking, with some people who have rallied to peter thiel's site, including a couple of venture capitalists who gawker has written negative venture founder of sun microsystems, i said, if you support peter thiel in this lawsuit or backing lawsuits against gawker, where do you draw the line against freedom of the press? >> the issue of what the press is is very ambiguous now. is a bloomberg journalist the same as a hustler magazine journalist? what is the line? me, there are two things that matter. anything that goes without checks and balances is going to go out.

to nick didn't, i say he needs checks and balances -- two denton, i say he needs checks and balances. at the facts were not in favor of old cogan, peter thiel and the losses would be air -- if the facts were not in favor of hulk hogan. gawker ditz of the 20 cogan. they created a legal case. emily: mark, i wonder how you respond to this idea. gawker is not a traditional sort of publication, so do they get the same sort of first amendment rights? mark: the first amendment does not distinguish between types of media. gawker is the equivalent of the new york times for the purpose -- firstrst agreement

amendment. at the other end, you have political speech and you have to lessal speech closer protection. and you have sex tapes somewhere in between. this is a sex tape case. let's understand what we're talking about. while i am not an advocate of tremendous protection for political speech, less of an advocate for speech for things like cigarette commercials, but even less so when it pertains to sex tapes, but it is a type of speech issue, not the nature of the media outrage. doespa does the -- emily: the bankruptcy affect your case at all? shiva: it is part of the legal process. but i would like to comment on some thing that was said in that interview. this is part of checks and balances. the click baiting model got out of hand. what you have is now the public,

as the florida court ruling, the public said we are going to allow this kind of journalism. claims he would like to do dialogue. i would like to put a challenge to him. i am willing to debate nick openly and publicly. larry flynt could probably be the moderator of that debate to it he is a lot more integrity, and he is a per narda for and has stood for first amendment rights. nick denton can debate on whether i am a fraud or whatever, but we should have the dialogue. there needs to be these checks and balances where people, the public, can modulate the framework or freedom of press and privacy. we need to really bring about good journalism. as the lawyer said, yes, on some the radical framework, the new york times and gawker are on the same level playing field. but the public has a show met certain times of journalism are not going to be governed by the broad array of protections, that they are going to be moderated,

and checks and balances are very important. i am here to debate him. emily: we will make sure to send him a message. mark, how will cases like shiva's and the multiple lawsuits against gawker, how do those impact the company now that they have filed for bankruptcy? mark: the reality is, the judgment of the florida court is probably larger than the assets of gawker. in terms of money at risk, the money is gone. the assets are gone. those who own the company will probably get nothing out of their investment. as far as further lawsuits, it is kind of like, pile them on. but the lawsuits are stayed, because once the bankruptcy action is filed, everything stops. it is an automatic stay. for any lawsuit to proceed, they would require the bankruptcy

court's permission. emily: all right. shiva, thank you both so much for joining us. this is a story we will continue to follow. coming up, a ground making the controversial technology gets a green light from the highest scientific panel advising the u.s. government. we will explain later this hour. ♪

emily: a revolutionary but controversial technology known as gene drive got a green light from the u.s. government advisory group. after a year-long study of risks and potential benefits, the panel ok'd continued research. it gives humans the power to alter and even eliminate entire populations of organisms in the wild. it is being pushed for use

against zika virus carrying mosquitoes, for example. tomooner than you think, randall explains how this works and why it is a hot vision issue -- a hot button issue. tom: there is a special mosquito in california that is carrying a genetic weapon that could wipe out one of the world's was deadly diseases, mental area -- malaria. the suffering might end if we just open the window and let this creature out, but will we do it? the mosquito is one project of thousands for a new gene editing tool called crisper that is absolutely transforming biological science. it is four years old, but in preliminary experiments, it has been used to eliminate hiv, types of blindness, and stopping cancer. it could one day be used to reverse human aging p more than $1 billion has been invested,

and it's really is just the beginning. chrisr works like a pair -- crispr reflect a pair of dna scissors. something like software code guides this is is to a location on the genome. snip, snip, how goes unwanted genes. the brakes and the double helix heal automatically. this is making the science fiction of a decade ago same obliquely plausible today. crispr shortens genetic engineering works from years two weeks. and it reduces the cost for more to --5,000 to four crispr to $50.rispr it is like a dry erase board that anyone can scribble on. scientists have successfully two delivers on the

game makes mosquitoes immune to the malaria parasites i cannot be spread to humans p but the problem, how to get it to spread to the entire population of mosquitoes. genetic changes are usually owing -- only inherited by half of offspring and a quarter of those offspring's offspring. last year, scientists unveiled another breakthrough, a gene drive the pushes the genetic changes to almost 100% of offspring are in mosquitoes reproduce so quickly here at it could go through an entire population of mosquitoes in a single season. boom, no more malaria. the gene drive is a perfect yet, but it is getting there. the biggest question is no longer about the science of what is possible but what is advisable. are we really ready to take over the blueprint of life on earth? there is not much time for debate. from the first human trials, we used therapies to treat genetic diseases here at a farm in north carolina is preparing to raise pigs.

by 2020, all sorts of different fruits, vegetables, and even meats will start showing up in your grocery store. crispr is the key to unlocking bioengineering, for better and maybe for worse. an international summit of scientist met in washington in december to agree on basic .imits in ethical research regarding human embryos, they decided research for desk should continue and the human genome and of the altered in ways that could be passed to future generations, at least not yet. right now, the field is fraught with some pretty freaky science and ethical conundrums. the human species miss tread carefully, but with the promise that crispr offers, it may be unethical to keep the window closed on some of this technology. that time may be coming sooner than you think.

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the most influential breakdown of things to watch in the tech industry every year. earlier this week, we focused on the rise of visual-german apps -- visual-driven apps. cartingrt focuses on technology, specifically how they are becoming more and peter than engine on wills. and the change might make us more productive as a society. joining us is virginia heffe hagel.d john thank you for joining us. john, what did you make of meeker's assessment of how connected cars will evolve to become something much more like a computer that could potentially make us more productive? john: i think she hit on two key trends in the automotive industry or the mobility ecosystem. one is the notion of moving to autonomous cars.

the other is this notion of moving from ownership to access and sharing, and that is also internet and computer-enabled. without the ability to locate a car quickly, you will not give up your car and share. the interesting thing is what happens when these two come together, and how does the industry work at that point? emily: virginia, you write about the digitization of life. the idea of an autonomous car still scares a lot of people. virginia: it is a great idea. in some ways, it is anyone's guess. it is not quite to the level of cloning or mars where people feel squeamish, but driverless cars bring up a lot of emotional feelings that americans have about driving. i read a great account of the other day by a writer in medium about how she lost interest in

driving. summer between -- somewhere between losing the standard shift, traffic, boring highways, driving just did not feel like driving anymore. it was not that physical experience where you would almost perform the landscape, connectors off to the machine. we are increasingly getting removed from that. i think the meeker reports that millennials expect cars to become more like computers, expect to have that kind of wi-fi in cars. we said the same thing about homes, but now there is pushed back on companies like nest, which have try to completely digitize the homes. emily: john, how do autonomous cars and shared cars, like uber and lyft, come together? john: it is interesting to it we will see multiple ways of this evolving. we have done work on future of mobility.

our sense is that the first stage will be more around moving to access a versus ownership, and it will be driven by urban millennials at the start who really do not have that much interest in owning a car. once you get the accessing cars versus owning them, now you get somebody else driving anyway. so what is the difference between a guy trusting a driver versus trusting a computer to actually drive the car for you? i think over time, we will see the convergence and very different kinds of fleet mobility operators. uber is very asset might because they just hire drivers who have their own cars. what happens when the drivers disappear? emily: it is a very interesting question. you can imagine sitting in the back of a self driving lyft or u ber. first of all, the drivers are out of a job. second, we have time to be productive.

how does that affect our productivity, and where do you draw the line? virginia: yeah, if driving is no feel aa place where you great deal of agency -- it has been interesting to see how sharing cars and uber hasn't mirrored sunday like the music business -- has mirrored something like the music business. you stream shows and movies instead of owning them. so you want to sort of stream ride in the internet. there is a little bit of samplization that happens. there is a tagline that you are either a kid getting driven around all the time or a celebrity that gets to sit in the back of the car and, in theory, do a lot of work, but in practice, maybe just play games on your phone or whatever.

i am not sure that it makes us better workers, but it definitely makes us deal more taken care of. i still get a reathrill in an uber. mary meeker talked about the potential of a second golden age for detroit and u.s. automakers to make a comeback with computerized cars spirit would you think the likelihood of that is? john: i think there is the potential for a new golden age, but the question is, who will get the gold? detroit could capture the gold. there are a bunch of startups here in silicon valley that are targeting that opportunity. by the way, what happens, let's imagine over time we get these fleet mobility operators highly concentrated, and now you are an automobile manufacturer used to selling to unsophisticated consumers. now you have to face an extremely sophisticated large company with a lot of negotiating power. emily: fascinating to

contemplate the future. john hagel, thank you for joining us. author, heffernan, you're staying with me. gm will hire about 700 engineers and canada to research self driving cars. inmade the announcement ontario, where it produces six models. they will focus on software, safety, technology, and infotainment. of a is refuting reports potential safety defect involving a model s. the regulator is looking at the potential issues with the suspension. the issue can to light after reports by the daily -- by a daily blog but said tesla demanded customers sign a nondisclosure agreement in exchange for repairing the defective part. tesla calls the statement prosperous. -- free postures. -- weadd blocking tech will focus on the financial

impact for media companies as the fight plays out. ♪

emily: more coverage of themes from mary meeker's report. techcused on connected car earlier. now we turn to the parallel rise of ad-blocking technologically. there is research from a tech company that works with publishers that fights ad-blocking software. it costs publishers billions. crm joinsrom us, along with virginia heffernan. neil, just how large would you

say the problem of ad blocking technology is, and how much of a challenge is posing the big media players? is a ad-blocking significant challenge, but it is here to stay. it is a choice the customers are making, but i do not think it is the best choice. it is an all or nothing choice. need more choices and and choose topick they do business with and who they communicate with. ad-block gives that all or nothing choice, which is not good for the customer because it is kenexa them from -- because it disconnects them from brands they like. it only benefits one person, the ad-blocker themselves. emily: that most people report they find ads annoying. can they get around this? a great point. the marketplace is doing a better job today. marketers sit at an intersection

of science and creativity, and they're bringing this two aspects together to do a better ads.f pulling relevant 90% of millennials are willing to consider ad-blockers. but over 100%, the average, a millennials will share a great ad. a great example is what taco bell did with their snapchat lens over cinco de mayo. it was good advertising and had over a million shares in one day. emily: the head of aol at verizon.net about how biggest problem is for them. listen to what he said. >> i think there is a big problem here. the fact that consumers are blocking ads is a single that you have to improve your ad quality. that will drive innovation. it is something we are looking at here at everyone in the

ecosystem will do that. emily: virginia, do you think that if most people find ads annoying that improving the experience will really lead to the demise of ad-blocking technology? virginia: i like you asked about the challenge of ad-blocking, been a it has always dance between consumers who want to access media and advertisers who want to reach them. consumers want to access media to pay for, and they do not want to see ads but kind of do. you think about print medias and advertisements for tiffany, say, next to an article about four and use -- about foreign youth. the reader knows that the role is to not read the ad but also read the article and see if they can get out without seeing the ad, but then it catches her eye.

it is standard capitalism at work in the media. it is a cold war. it is like something with the taco bell ad that was mentioned. there is some entertainment in it. there are times when i see an interesting ad and i'm raising to click the little corner of it so i can close it is a the article behind it, and all of a southern, i get delayed, and i think, i know you're trying to trick me by making the x hard to find, but i'm still interested. i do not think that is bad for media. there are interesting things that happened. tivo used to offer a way to skip zoadcast ads, e3-minute -- the three-minute zapper. something we will definitely continue to look at. i do see ads on facebook now that i think to myself, actually, i like that, too.

is the prizes me when i see one i like, because it does not happen very often. but ad-blocking technology is something we will continue to watch. thank you both so much for joining us today. twitter to parenting, the executive trying to make parents' lives a little bit easier. thank you very much. monday, special coverage of the apple annual developers conference. we will be live at the event throughout the day with an all-star lineup of guests. more of bloomberg west, next. ♪

emily: getting out and about as a parent can be a major feat, especially with newborns. launched a app that with ambitions to make it easier to navigate the world with little ones.

it provides detailed on over 100,000 locations with child-early features. can winnie become the yelp for parents? joining us is the cofounder and ceo, sara mauskopf. i downloaded it, because there are not a lot of good apps in this space. what is the vision? shiva: winnie helps parents find places to go and information about places that pertain to them as a parent. it answers questions like, is there a changing table in the parkoom or is this a good with swings? it also includes stories and tips from parents themselves, the kind of information you cannot get anywhere else. today, you have to learn through trial and error or word-of-mouth. emily: in my neighborhood, there are child-friendly places, but there are also bars on there.

is the goal to become a better you should -- a better version of the yelp? at we that is part of it definitely want to have information about all kinds of places. what are good bars to take kids? that matters to some parents. really what we want to do overall is build great technology for parents. one of the things i found when i became a parent about a year ago is that there is really no technology in this space. as more and more millennials like myself are becoming parents, they're going to look to technology in the same way they have technology helping them with all other aspects of their lives. emily: you have an interesting personal story, worked at google, youtube, post mates, and twitter. i wonder if you can share a little about your own personal inspiration here. your husband is fighting cancer. you have been in the middle of the founding a company. how did you make it happen?

shiva: one of the funny things one of the funny things being a parent and a ceo of a startup, i recently learned how to balance the two, and then my husband was recently diagnosed with cancer, and i am back at square one. the from the beginning, we decided we wanted to build a sustainable culture. every not want to be like other startup. we wanted to make sure that we worked hard at that we do not spend every waking hour in the office. so when other things come up in our lives, we are very adaptable. it was unfortunate we set it up that way from day one. emily: what is the transition like going from tech employee to founder? what are some new things you learned about this world of silicon valley? sara: yeah, so i think it has been a really interesting road going from working at world-class companies to trying to start my own.

one of the things my cofounder and i are trying to do is bring some of that world-class engineering to the parenting space, a space that has been neglected by the world's best engineers. that is why there are not really good apps in the space. so we're trying to bring some of that engineering culture to this . emily: do you think that is because silicon valley is so male dominated? a bigyes, i think that is part of it. as more men and women become parents now, we're sort of growing up in the valley. emily: how do you intend to make money? sara: a great question. a lot of things are in the work spirit right now, the app is free, and the core product will always be free. we want this to be accessible to everyone. but parents are the largest consumer segment, and they spend money on their children. so we have lots of ways in the future to make money. emily: what is your fundraising experience like?

sara: so far we have not taken and a lot of money. we wanted to go about it a little differently, building a product first and get some legs the four we take a bunch of money. but i found that the people we have talked to so far really relate to our mission, and a lot of them are parents themselves. it is easy to pitch them on first-hand experience of them having gone through this. emily: you worked at twitter as aproduct manager for certain amount of time. another head of product just left. why can't they get it together? sara: i have been very removed from twitter. i have not worked there for years. but i am a huge user of twitter and it is where i get real-time information about what is happening. andsh them all the best hope it continues to be successful. emily: what do you think they need to do to improve? far removed from

it, but i think there are still a lot of great people that work there. i think they will figure it out. emily: what do you want winnie to become? sara: overall, a company that builds technology for parents and builds tools to make parents ' lives easier. in our opinion, parenting is probably the hardest job, and parents deserve great technology just like any other job to make their lives easier. ceo, thankie labs you for joining us. it just launched yesterday. you can download it now. who is having the best day ever? the winner is console gamers. after months of speculation, sony confirmed it is working on a newer, more powerful 4.5station 4, neo or ps will be able to play games and support the upcoming playstation vr headset.

it does not have a price point, but it will be more expensive than the $400 ps4. if you were hoping for a new glimpse of the new model at the event next week, it is not quite ready for the main stage just yet. that does it for bloomberg west. on monday, special coverage of apple's annual developers conference to it we will have the most important takeaways. have a wonderful weekend, everyone. ♪

♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: eric schmidt has been at the center of google's rise from silicon valley startup to one of the most powerful and influential companies. he was ceo from 2001 to 2011 and is currently executive chairman of alphabet, google's parent company created last summer. but encourages ambitious projects or moon shots it believes can benefit both the company and society. advances in artificial intelligence and other