interface, is created. what that i can this the place where you would bring engineers out germany to here. >> it's an interesting place, thousands of big companies, and great start-ups, and great opportunities to work with high-class universities like stanford or down in l.a. with usc. it's a great place to be. on the other side, we have access to the venture capitalist firms, where we can see trends and where the money is going. is there a stereotype with the german engineers that you do about -- you know the stereotypes. german engineers are exacting, run on time. silicon valley engineers show up in flip-flops and shorts and put their feet up and drink lots of red bull. is there any disconnect between the two? do you have to adjust one culture to another? >> i think we have to adjust. each and everybody is adapting,

our american colleagues become more german and german colleagues take it more laidback. yeah, we adapt. there's a ton of software in bmws as we speak. how much of it will be coming from your little neck of -- our little neck of the woods here, versus how much is home in germany or wherever. >> we work on a different scope of projects. we have quick prototyping projects as well as long term. we have about three months to five, six seven years down the road. we have this app. center in mountainview facility, where we cooperate with parties, create applications for the motor. that means, for example, pan doroa. so we work together and bring it into the car. the car where you totally control the app. and see the information on the display. >> the car is just a platform? >> right as opposed to my phone. >> it's a big topic. >> the bmw i drive was one of

the first of these controllers, where really were livening the driver with the software. i'm very curious what you learned from the experience, particularly with regards to distracted driving. i've seen increasingly in all cars that all these app.s really eventually have to take your eye off the road. >> that's right. our focus is always to be as safe as possible and have your eyes on the road, of course. we have a primary focus, that's driving. the secondary level is the services like navigation, like application. have you seen the government come in at all and say hey, to car developers, manufacturers, hey, we're seeing these app.s come and we have some concerned and here are proposed regulatio regulations. are we not to that point? >> of course they're coming up with regulation. an example is texting with

driving. we always focus, put the phone away, connect it to the bmw and we have applications you can use while driving. we have specialists creating such device. there's magic engineering between the difference between your car telling you what the weather is and your car warning you, hey, i've noticed it's dropped below freezing, here's a chime. one is an interactive really honestly who cares. the other is i know you're busy driving, but i thought i would take a moment to alert you to the fact it may start to get icy. the best app.s will be the one that sort of seamlessly work with the driver and kind of becomes like bmw advertises, a drivers and machines together. >> it's a merge of car data and services from outside the car, so this will be the future, i think. >> how do you then things like google's driverless car which seems to be the ant thesis of the merging of the car and the

driver. >> we are working on autonomous driving too, for several years, but we are not talking about that much. this is changing a lot within the car, and the driver/vehicle interaction, other you have to make sure the driver can always step into the process. sp something is going wrong, it's only the computer drying the car. >> i don't drive a bmw like rich does, i have a ford, but many high-end cars these days do have sort of a hybrid of that. if you aren't braking fast enough for the car ahead of you, the car will begin to brake itself and those sorts of things which are the beginning of autonomy. >> of course. >> go back to we are working on autonomous cars. how hard? was there a moment when google said we're driving them up and down 85, and everybody threw their papers up in the air and

swore? german? or have you been sort of looking -- >> we had a car driving from munich to -- >> and it just doesn't get the press that google did? >> we at germany are more modest, i think. >> but bmw sells the driver experien experience. and if you're not driving, then what is the experience that bmw is selling me? >> we are building the ultimate driving machine. it's a great experience to drive it by yourself, but i think we can adapt that to autonomous driving as well. daniel is the advanced designer at bmw group. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thanks for vms me. "new york times" says my next guest is one of the most important people you probably never heard of. he created the system that made google profitable. and then he really got to work. when "press:here" continues.

welcome back. my next guest builds models. gill elbaz is building a model of the internet. >> a lot of it is about connecting the dots. >> gill elbaz is crawling the internet, indexing, categorizing, making lists. lists of everything from the average temperature at your favorite beach, to the on-time records of airlines. to the location of every restaurant in the united states. all information mined and organized, which can be sold for a great deal of money. when he was 7 years old, gill

elbaz wrote i want to grow up, be rich and be a math me 'tis who is very smart. he's gone 3 for 3, according to "new york times." thanks for being with us. you have two hats. during the day, you are the ceo of factual, and at night you do this common crawl foundation. both use data from the internet. common crawl is the one where you're actually building a model of the internet itself. is factual more a warehouse of information? help me understand the difference. >> factual is trying to structure and clean information on behalf of a wide ecosystem. >> and make money. >> and make money. >> common crawl is doing it for free, as an open for all sort of concept. >> common crawl is a copy of the web. the web -- it's the most fantastic collection of knowledge that humanity has assembled. why not make it available? we want to make it available to as many people as possible.

>> but for those of us who don't understand how the internet work, we know that google make a copy of the internet to search it. you are making a copy. why the copy. explain why the copy is important? >> right. in order to build upon what the web is, extract deep inside it, you need to access it, and while most people think that the web is open because of the human, you can browse and look at whatever you want, in order to do deep research, you ed to access all of it at one. >> if you're an employee of google, you get access. if not, there's common crawl. >> where do you put it? is it in your basement? >> first of all, anyone who wants a copy, can put it in their basement if they have enough -- >> a really big heart drive. how hard drive would i need? >> the archive is hundreds of terabytes. on your dsl connection, it would

take protectionly a lifetime. i don't advise it. >> definitely don't do it over lte. >> are you competitive with alexa, how do you fit in with that? >> we're complementary. we like the guys and i admire this -- alexa is an archive of the web. i'm thinking of the internet archiveses. what they built was an archive that any human wants to go back and look at history -- >> like a way-back machine. >> whereas what we're focused on is making this information available at scale to a researcher, again who wants to access all of it in a short period of time, wants to take advantage of this tremendous thing, where you can rent computation, thousands of mens for one hour and do amazing things in short period of times, but you will access tons of

data. >> what kinds of insights that a researcher might glean from this sort of thing? >> we talked to a fabulous number of people who are doing all sorts of things. this is all pretty new, because it's only in the last five years that big data is the hot thing and data scientists are popping up, people are wanting to be trained. to answer your question, the kind of thing you can do with information of this scale, you can -- if ear an epidemiologist and looking for patterns of mentions of symptoms that people are having, and trying to tie it back to locations. maybe you're going to spot something that hasn't been spotted before, and you're going to find the next virus. these are things that are going to benefit consumers greatly. go ahead, joe. >> who has access to this now? is it researchers that you carefully vet? or come one, come all? >> it's the latter. we are lucky that we have partnerships with organizations that have provided mass amounts of storage.

this can be stored and access. for example it's sitten on amazon public data sets. that's one of the partners. anybody can go and rent time on their machines and access the data. unlike some other similar corpuses that were smaller, those were only available to researchers under strict guidelines. we want this available for educational, research, but also for startups? business. >> correct me if i get the analogy wrong, but i use the analogy as a beach in the -- the average temperature of every beach in the world is somewhere on the internet on the city of, you know, redondo beach's web side or something, and then it's somewhere else with the national weather service, but no-no where has anyone exiled the list. by putting the entire enter net on the box and searching through it, i can create those lists.

is that a fairly good analogy of what you're doing? >> i think this if you look at the rich data set that's a common crawl, there's a ton of possibilities. >> that's just one example. >> the one example is to find factual information. >> you have taken of bits of data that are all very similar from around the web and made it possible to assemble them in a stack? >> with common crawl it's more basic than that. it's just copies of web pages and all the words. if somebody wants to look for and structure weather information, that might be a fantastic value add to what we've done on common crawl. >> or just go to factual. >> that's where the money is coming in through your day job, factual. you are able to create that and say gil, i would like to purchase the average temperature of every beach. >> when we first launched we thought let's be the repository.

we have narrowed it a bit, just because it's a tremendous job being the database for everybody. we have focused on places and products. so every place on the globe, every product that we can get our hands on, and building rich databases about these things. before you were talking about maybe people, putting there or getting -- convincing people to put information in there? is that something off in the future? >> we're focused on places and products. when you start building databases of people, there's definitely some more privacy issues that come to bear. we would have to think carefully about that. gill elbaz is the ceo of factual. if you're thinking about solar panels for your home, hold that thought, sunshine, at least until the break. "press:here" will be back in a minute.

welcome back to "press:here." elan musk, best known as the head of tesla or sending rockets to the space station, is also deeply involved in solar energy. he recently said the future of home energy will be a rooftop solar and a battery pack, with the utility company just providing backup power. few people realize modern rooftop solar panels actually depend on the electrical system to run, so weirdly enough if your home is solar powered and the electricity goes out in your neighborhood, even on a bright sunny day, the power goes out for you, too. drew zogby is a solar manufacturer through his company outback power and early advocate for the next generation of solar, the solar musk is talking about, the average american home can actually go off the grid.

i was shocked to learn that the first time when somebody -- a neighbor of mine put up solar panels and said when it becomes 107 droes and they start doing the rolling blackout, and i'm coming to your house, and he said no, my power is out. why is that? >> safety. when the original distributed solar was put out, it's really there to replace large-scale utility solar deployment. everyone's home that has one is feeding back into the grid, but if the grid goes down and technicians have to work on it, it shuts off. >> i see. >> is there not a way, or you probably have a way in which we're just not feeding back into the grid? in other words, the power that's generated can stay in high my home? >> exactly. that's what the so-called grid hybrid system can do. it leverages off the middle of nowhere power type of systems, where it first charges a battery

bank, then charges the load in the home, then whatever is left over would go in the so -called sell mode, and it has the al go rhythm, that has a safety mechanism to allow it to run independently. >> now, is that here and now? >> absolutely. been around for a while, but not really promoted properly, because so many people were looking at just the cost of the solar itself -- >> and the cost savings. the real sell on solar is i can knock your bill off by 75% or whatever the number happens to be. the fact you can run without the electrical grid would be an extra and one i would have failed to have asked about. >> really what people are doing out is netting out the meter. they're not adding any reliability or redundancy. the hybrid systems allow you to peak shape, so you can still run off the grid, but program it so

that the expensive tier of power you can eliminate. it gives you independence in an outage and gives you the sustainable energy deployment if you want that on your property. >> let me ask, there was recent bankruptcy of a very large chinese manufacturer of solar panels, then we had the solyndra bankruptcy, despite a lot of u.s. financial aid, which became an issue in the presidential campaign last year. what are these things saying about the overall health of solar, particularly in the absence of government subsidies. >> the two things you just mentioned are really an overcapacity situation. it was too much capacity when a market was selling at too low a price. they simply didn't have a profitable model. in general, the well-run solar companies are doing fine, with the costs coming down of the modules themselves, which typically represented half the cost of the system. the paybacks are still good, and the market's grown 25% in the

last year. >> it depends which part of the supply chain you're in. in the case of solar city, the musk company, they're leasing, they're installing and then leasing out solar panels. the cheaper the panels get, the better for them. >> the better for everybody. >> you're making the mystery box that goes in my garage, right? and do important things, the better for you, because while your costs don't necessarily come down, the more homeowners who get cheap solar, the most mystery boxes you're selling? >> absolutely. in fact with the modules being half the original costs of a few years ago, now they've come down 75%, the other thing that's the high quality type gear, like the hybrid system, now can be part of the payback model. any port of a solar deployment is the basis for your tax credits and depreciation basis, so even though you're spending more, you get a bigger incentive on sort of the enhanced elements there. >> what's the payback now? would most people without any

increasesed subsidies for the first time going -- would they actually benefit? >> yeah, i think we're starting to get into the 5 to 7 years payback as pretty reasonable. if you do the lease system, it's a different modding all together, but the exciting element starts to come into some of the more commercial grate systems where you have and then the expensive tiers that they get into in time of day using they can eliminate. >> is there any safety concerns about adding a battery system to my house? dreamliner has trouble with their batteries, et cetera. batteries that would hold an incredible amount of electricity in my garage, is that something i need to worry about? i the batteries that are typically deployed, and that most people have are traditional lead acid-based bat ritz,

they're safe, they don't have the volatility. >> like a car battery? i already have two of those in the garage. >> these are the type of -- the base technology is use in forklifts, golf carts, things that are very common where the incidents are small. >> more growth in retrofit of existing buildings or new construction? >> retro is still by far the largest market. people understand their needs and requirements. they just have to look at the site element. if you're staging a new development or new project and you can design it in, certainly it's more efficient to do it that way. you can build elements of a system to orient the building that gives it its best exposure. >> drew zogby is with outback power. we appreciate you being with us this morning. >> thank you very much. "press:here" will be back in just a minute.

welcome back. facebook recently announced what is not the facebook phone. wall me through what it is. it's not an operating system. it's not even an app. because it's bigger than an app. right? >> sort of a metaapp.. can we go with super-app.? >> sure. it basically takes over the lock screen of your phone and home screen and provides a facebook environment, a facebook face, if you will, to the entire phone. it's not a separate operating system, not a separate flavor of android. but the use experience. instead of being the android using experience that you have is a facebook experience. >> you could never do this on ios, on apple. apple wouldn't let you take over the look and feel of a phone. >> exactly. i mean, they're taking advantage of the fact that foible possibly -- or that anidetroit

is a relatively opened platform. >> apple wants to own the relationship with you, the use. facebook is saying we want to own the away action a they can only do that -- and. >> and this gives more mobility. >> what's our future? eventually they'll sell ads, so it will become a revenue driver, but mark zuckerberg was very clear that ads are in the future. >> and available this coming friday, april 12th. >> and going to be available both as a download from the google play store if you already have an android. in addition, they announced as htc at&t phone is coming out for $100 that will have it preloaded and more phones will have it preloaded. >> rich, thank you very much. thank you for watching. this is our show for the week. thanks for my guests. i'm scott mcgrew. thank you for making us part of

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