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these rules are still not dead at least if bosch gets its way the german car parts maker says it's found a way to make diesel powered clean though not everyone is convinced also ahead. meet your future colleagues the hanover message trade fair shows us robots might not be the job killers we thought they'd be. under the winter and this is your business update cup art supply of bosch is claiming it's sold the emissions problem it's new technology apparently allows engines to meet and even beat future diesel emissions limits the same the breakthrough uses innovations in the fuel injection system combining smart temperature management with artificial intelligence the technology isn't new but the combination is off says production could begin
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immediately german firm itself is under investigation for supplying car makers with devices we asked greg archer from the n.-g. o. transport environment for his take on today's announcement from bosch. the boss claims to have found the holy grail to clean diesel which is a technology which will work however the car is driven at no extra cost and with no loss of efficiency but i think customers will be skeptical because we've had many past claims that diesel is now clean which have proved to be simple greenwash the reality is that how effective this technology is will depend on how which is actually fifty to the vehicles and that he's not he's responsibility that lies with the automakers themselves so it remains to be seen how good this technology really will be. and here's the reaction to bosses so-called breakthrough from our markets
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reporter in science not conrad boost whether shares of the car makers have not been ignited by this story today you know the these are all cheating at folks who are brought about a whole cartel of wrongdoing in the industry including bosch i think looting the state officials who failed to effectively control the diesel emissions this has destroyed a lot of confidence among investors i talked to a car analyst today here at the exchange who wouldn't believe the news at first we had to look at the press release twice i think it needs a lot of time for investors to believe in good news and diesel again. take shares now when twitter posted its first quarterly profit a few months ago many wondered if the results were just a flash in the pan for the micro-blogging site some latest quarterly earnings show otherwise the san francisco fund's posting a sixty one million dollar profit so costs and expectations but twitter shares
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plunged business in the u.s. isn't running as hot as it was a punishment is tightlipped about for costs more from a wall street correspondent called. the mood on wall street remains a shaky twitter for example just for the second time in their company's history they were able to report a profit that came in better than expected they also had more monthly users than expected but the stock sold off in the wednesday session losing about four percent the reason is pretty simple investors on wall street do not trade the past but the future and the outlook of twitter was not as strong as expected and that seems to be the case for many corporations right now who report record numbers but still stock prices are under pressure because there is some discussion if the u.s. corporations are able to actually sustainably keep those profits as high on top of
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it again the ten year treasury a yield moving across the psychologically important three percent mark so that old saw it did cause some pressure here on wall street debt becomes more expensive and there is this debate going on if sooner or later the u.s. actually might face some cooling of economic growth. and investors bid up the price of facebook in after hours trading and results just out after the closing bell which showed that the first quarter profit was up sixty three percent to five billion dollars crucially the company didn't lose uses investors are watching user numbers closely after the cambridge analytical data mining scandal facebook has been working hard to clear up the fallout of the incident which saw the private data of millions of users leaked online but that happened close to the end of the quarter so the full effect on years numbers might have to wait for the second quarter financials. here in germany the hanover message is in full swing
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the annual gathering is one of the best places to get a look at the cutting edge technology transforming manufacturing and bartending by the looks of things automation is advancing in leaps and bounds these days but according to a recent o.e.c.d. study the threat of robots replacing workers is a lot less than was once feared. fears that factories will soon operate without human labor are easing it likely has something to do with changing attitudes about robots they were once seen as brutish work courses that would make human workers obsolete now they're acknowledged as skilled in agile collaborators. advances in artificial intelligence have made machines smarter and easier to operate they don't require programmers today's robots can even respond to simple hand gestures. they're also aware of their surroundings able to pause if there's
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any interference researchers or even developing a kind of electronic skin that can sense objects without direct contact. people but almost god is i know but it's don't need to stop the sensors can allow them to interact with humans with the kind of physical give and take of a dings and approaching. danish company universal robots are pioneers in the sector it was brilliant called out oh it's become and the original idea came from three students who basically wanted to design a robot that could help them make a pizza in the evening and if it so it was just a crazy idea from students thinking outside the box that ended up becoming an industrial product with. a product projected to see rapid growth the market is expected to increase ten fold over the next five years meanwhile more and more data is being collected up linked and analyzed allowing systems to run more seamlessly many customers are nervous about their personal data disappearing into the cloud so
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now with edge computing data can be processed near the source instead of in the cloud. because the thought is that the cia and the big advantage is that the technological domain is very localized now which allows me to apply our domain technology know how quickly right at the source thought that may be enough to convince the naysayers we may soon see a workplace. are humans and machines create products together as a team a harmonious work environment with data gloves and artificial intelligence it's still just the developer's vision but even that underlines the likelihood that humans will remain in control. well let's hope so nationwide protests by south african trade unions have brought major towns and cities to a standstill the unions are pushing back against the proposed national minimum wage of twenty rand an hour that's just over one half dollars they say that's just too low and will only entrench south african families in poverty. the strikes pose
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a test for a new president cyril ramaphosa he sees the minimum wage as an important part of labor reform in tackling wage inequality there were reports of blocked roads stone throwing and looting in certain parts of the country unions feel threatened and the mood is not geared towards compromise london's reagan was. destroyed. simply because government imposes amendments and many changes on the labor laws and we cannot allow that situation now with south africa . wednesday's protests are the second major public show of discontent in south africa within a week from opposer last week cut short a visit to a commonwealth summit in britain a day early to travel to the northwest province where crowds have been protesting against poor public services. the new president who replaced jacob zuma as
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president in february mistakes his reputation on reviving the economy and rooting out corruption associated with zoomers nine years in power. it's no secret that germany faces a huge shortage of skilled workers as many as three million posts could be unfilled by twenty thirty and it's for that reason that the recent influx of refugees is seen as a potential boon for the country and with the right education and past ways to success they're already able to enter the job market just take this came from bali . and these women all have one thing in common they arrived in germany only a short time ago now they're learning computer skills for their new life here in nonprofit school ready gives tech savvy refugees a helping hand refugees like on our new york age. the most in. into good good and we would like to play an active role and be well integrated in this new society. on. i don't just want to sit around at home.
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so how's it been but rather do something than that and do something good steady work and i don't bite. because train students too in turn ship level to hopefully get a job afterwards former student rita bachmann managed to work her way up to instructor level in a very short time through already i got to the work in cisco so i like one month before cisco i was doing dishes now i'm cisco and the biggest company. to begin with most participants in the ready program were men but this year the school began offering special courses for women refugees haiti have signed up so far. that wraps up another edition of the all business update but don't forget there's plenty more on our social media pages on facebook and twitter just such a business and on the winter i'll be back tomorrow same time same place for me on
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