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diesels 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 a bosch is claiming it solved the emissions problem its 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 immediately the german firm itself is under investigation for supplying car makers with cheat devices we
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asked greg archer from the ngo transport environment for his take on today's announcement from bosch. we're both claim 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 is proved to be simple greenwash. the reality is that how effective this technology is will depend on how it is actually fit into the vehicles and that is not bush's responsibility that lies with the automakers themselves so it remains to be seen how good this technology really will be and here is the reaction to bosches so-called breakthrough from our markets reporter in frankfurt conrad boost. well the shares of the car makers have not been ignited by this story today you know the diesel cheating at fault brought about
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a whole cartel of wrongdoing in the industry including bosch including 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 sites and latest quarterly earnings show otherwise the san francisco fund's post the sixty one million dollar profit some pos in expectations but twitter shares plunged business in the us 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
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a shaky twitter for example just for the second time in the 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 it again the ten year treasury a yield moving across the psychologically important three percent mark so that old
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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 cooling of economic growth. and investors bid up the price of facebook in after hours trading and results just out of the closing bell that showed that the first quarter profit was up sixty three percent to five billion dollars crucially the company didn't lose uses invest as a 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 use numbers might have to wait for the second quarter one options. here in germany the hand over message is in full swing the annual gathering is one of the best places to get a look at the cutting edge technology transforming manufacturing and bought tended
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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 threats of robots replacing walkers is a lot less than was once the it. appears 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 any interference researchers or even developing a kind of electronic skin that can sense objects without direct contact.
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devil but i was god i know but stone need to stop the sensors can allow them to interact with humans with a kind of physical give and take of a dings and approaching. co bots or a new or class of lightweight robots that work closely with people they're a nice product that have been around about ten years now. danish company universal robots are pioneers in the sector if you wish them to 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 that is so it was just a crazy idea from students thinking outside the box that ended up becoming an industrial product it was 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 uplink and analyzed allowing systems to run more seamlessly many customers are nervous about their personal data disappearing into the cloud so now with the edge computing data
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can be processed near the source instead of in the cloud. it was the thought is that history 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 and thoughts that may be enough to convince the naysayers we may soon see a workplace where humans and machines create products together as a team a harmonious work environment with data globes and artificial intelligence it's still just the developers 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 rem a poser he sees the minimum wage as an important part of labor reform and tackling wage inequality there were reports of blocked road stone throwing and looting in some parts of the country unions feel threatened and the mood is not geared towards compromise but i don't want to. destroy it it. simply because government imposes amendments and many changes on labor laws cannot allow that situation how would south africa. wednesday's protests or the second major public show of discontent in south africa within a week from a poser 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 president in february mistakes his reputation on reviving the economy and rooting
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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 post could be unsold 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 pathways to success they're already able to enter the job market just take this came from berlin. 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 an onion cage. the unwashed in a tube. 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
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home. so how's it been but rather do something on that and do something good steady work and then i'll bite. the course train students to 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 insist course or like one month before or cisco i was doing dishes and now wants to score 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 eighty 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 winds i'll be back tomorrow same time same place but for now
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