rises are negatively impacting the airlines that we just spoke about with gary a moment ago for b.p. profits were boosted big time by higher prices as a comparison during q two last year boyle averaged fifty dollars per barrel and this year during q two average seventy five dollars per barrel in total oil prices this year are up by about ten percent b.p. also increased their oil production by three percent during the quarter and last week the company announced a ten billion dollar plus acquisition of high value assets that's the largest such acquisition in company history b.p. c.e.o. bob dudley said he can't remember when things look this good for the company and of course as with everything bt b.p. its relative deepwater horizon and now we move to facial recognition where our teams actually banks looked at racial bias of some software which even includes members of the u.s. house and senate as supposing criminals i know a lot of you think they're all criminals they're not for the record for the most

part here is actually. twenty eight knots the number of faces amazon space surveillance program wrongly identified as criminal what's interesting is these faces are unfamiliar these are the faces of twenty eight current members of congress the majority being minorities the a.c.l.u. conducted its own test using amazon's recognition program and found that it almost always misidentified people of color more than it did white people and in recent years amazon employees civil rights groups and others have demanded amazon stop providing face surveillance to the government claiming this could make minorities targets of discrimination recently the congressional black caucus sent a letter to amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos about the consequences black people one documented immigrants and protesters face saying quote we are troubled by the profound negative unintended

consequences this form of artificial intelligence can have. however amazon it is confident recognition will be of good use to law enforcement and won't be used as an attack against minorities that is if cops at the confidence level on the facial recognition program to ninety nine percent match it would amazon's general manager argues the members of congress were misidentified during the a.c.l.u. test because the a.c.l.u. used the setting of eighty percent confidence wood said quote we continue to recommend that customers do not use less than ninety nine percent confidence levels for law enforcement matches this illustrates how important it is for those using the technology for public safety issues to pick appropriate confidence levels so they have a few if any false positives therefore of the setting is lower than ninety nine there's a possibility a civilian could be misidentified as a criminal or worse a terrorist many members of congress are now critical of amazon's recognition

service for writing a letter to bases. saying quote we're requested immediate meeting with you to discuss how to address the facts of this technology and order to prevent and accurate outcomes at this time amazon has not said which a law enforcement agencies are evaluating or using the service these c.l.u. is demanding that amazon remove the service from the market and washington national banks arts. boyd picture yourself as a criminal they want to meeting you right now it's time for a quick break right now but i'm here because when we return we'll talk with the c.e.o. of vera software todd shipley who gives us his take on what's going on with artificial teligent who's going to help profit and how competitors be stopped from killing the ai golden goose and finally there's something rotten about prices and competition with french supermarkets are too strong to pinsky explains from paris as we head to

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welcome back the largest overall pay increase for workers in the united states in almost a decade took place over the last twelve months according the department of labor which posted the two point eight percent increase furthermore deal wells' employment cost index rose by three point eight percent wages and salaries comprise roughly seventy percent of cumulative employment costs and nearly a decade after the great recession unemployment stands at about four percent now compared to a rate of ten percent back then but with the tightening labor market many companies are raising pay to attract and retain workers. the increased popularity of scooters or a bike says companies like byrd up in arms over the trumpet ministrations plan to impose increased tariffs on the chinese scooter imports to the united states the companies will have all written to the u.s. trade representative in opposition to the plan saying the tariff will negatively

impact jobs and cars were called the proposed twenty five percent tariff a quote penalty tax on u.s. companies job creation and consumers the scooters which only require an app and a credit card to use are an emerging business venture e. knight estates with over one billion dollars worth of investment during the past year alone roughly sixteen sixteen billion dollars worth of such scooters from china were imported to the u.s. last year. it's been clear for a while now that the digital base companies are major players in the market companies like google microsoft and amazon are household names of course and where there is money to be made there's unscrupulous sorts will try to sake advantage of the circumstances hackers routinely target major companies like well target or equity. yahoo in however trying to keep ahead of the game and companies like palo

alto are companies like palo alto networks silence and crowd strike who are looking to take ai artificial intelligence and make it to the next big defense against cyber threats joining us now to discuss from the biggest little city in the world reno nevada cyber security expert the c.e.o. of various software todd shipley hey todd is so good to have you back on the show let's hit it hard in the time we have to be ai is becoming really a topic related to advancements in cyber security and we know about ai and all sorts of venues but in cyber security we haven't looked at it so much we have it you have i'm sure companies like tenable are even going public on nasdaq and as someone who works in cyber security think it's just more hype right now or is there really something to all this ai cybersecurity talk. well i think there is something to it it's in its infancy though and what it's actually going to be able to do for the average citizen i mean we still have to look at what ai is currently it's not

the panacea it's not the version of you know artificial intelligence where it's thinking for itself it's just machine learning where it's a set of. information that the computer goes through in solves problems and decides whether there's a problem or not based on the information as so it's going to be something that's going to be good eventually but it's certainly not the panacea like you said that everybody thinks it is at this moment but we're going to see a lot more of it in the future because there's a lot of money being put into this space and we're going to see a lot more companies finding ways to solve problems through artificial intelligence i mean for most of us todd you know when we hear about a hack i mean we that that's all we know about it we don't know how it occurs we don't know what took place we you know get bummed out upset if it's if it's our stuff but is there are there certain areas of hacking we've talked many times on the program before thank you about ransomware for example are there particular areas of fiber threats that ai might be of assistance with. well you know course

and a lot of it has to do with understanding where the attacks are coming from the advantage of artificial intelligence in its current form is that it can identify things that we don't always recognize and that's where they really want to be able to go with that is have something that is coming into our system and being recognised as something necessarily bad or not and let it pass through or not and so artificial intelligence is really stretching the boundaries of that humans ability to understand when problems occur and being able to recognize things as a problem so that is changing how we look at things very rapidly so if we're talking we talk about ai i guess we're talking about predictive thinking right and when you to think about predictive cooking and you talk about all our technologies we did a piece the other day on smart t.v.'s are they watching you with you know their cameras and you make hand gestures do we do you see a i being something that gets put onto our smart devices our cell phones t.v.'s

etc. well sure eventually it's going to because everything is so driven by our phones now i mean it's so ubiquitous the fact that everybody has a phone everybody works on their phone and we're seeing far less usage of desktops and laptops because everybody has their phone and does so much work on their phone so we're going to see that being driven down there we're going to also see it behind the scenes in the companies that drive the data to where phones are going to be trying to intercept the bad content before it ever gets to the phone and that's where a lot of the ai work is going to be done is before it actually gets to our phone but we're going to eventually see it as the phones get larger and the memory space gets larger on the phones it'll be driven down there eventually so so when you look out into the future what sort of companies are out there right now that you think are sort of on the cutting edge that maybe i know you say i is as a ways away on cyber security but which companies are out there right now that we

should be looking at as time goes forward. well i think we have to look at what's occurring in i see it from a sense and point of view the way we look at it from say five it's not here it's here in so many fashions tenable google's using it in so many ways as well as microsoft they're looking at how the artificial intelligence programs can be implemented to make the presentation of the data to us in a better fashion and less likely for the hackers to get to us so a lot of companies are out there using this in a great fashion and we're going to see more and more of it the problem is i don't think we're going to see it in the fashion that people assume it is yet because the computing power is not there if we look at what google's doing and we see where the quantum computing is going in the near future because google's just announced that they think it's five years out i think we're going to see huge change in what artificial intelligence does when it makes that leap into a much faster processor the way google and some of the companies are looking at hey

todd i know i wonder we didn't don't have time for now but is a crypto is we hope you'll come back to talk about sort of the threats to crypto zen and what's different about that and other hacks a tight ship way the c.e.o. of various software thanks as always for being with us todd. thanks for having me. and now we move to paris where artist charlotte dubinsky looks at prices and competition as companies seek to gain market share some say there's something really rotten here charlotte. as competition intensifies in the supermarket sector new alliances are emerging on the one so right here in france retailers like c.e.o. . have teamed up with germany's metric forming a new purchasing alliance called rising on the other one of the biggest names in the supermarket sector here more has decided to collaborate with system you but it hasn't stopped that couple is even eyeing a bigger prize and has announced

a partnership with a new case tesco why one of the big threat in europe is amazon entering the grocery market as the online retailer marches towards becoming a trillion dollar company it's jumped into the supermarket sector with its acquisition of whole foods it's also struck a deal with french company casino pitting directly with cough or so as the marketplace gets a little less diverse what if any are the benefits to consumers who want shirts or race to put on price so this is going to be great for consumers i mean this is going to combine in western europe eight percent of the market. so i think there are three main points it's to contain discounters death and margene and to counter any future move by amazon but not everyone is rejoicing at these potential price

cuts francis antitrust authority has launched a probe into these alliances it's concerned that they threaten competition rules and that they bulk purchasing power could impact supply as squeezing their margins that fear is echoed by a body representing suppliers in europe. small retailers a worry too about their livelihoods. because you know. car four and casino have access to their own multiple suppliers because of this they can buy cheaper and sell cheaper because of keeping their margin else we the small shop owners have only one supplier and they are already selling out their products even before taxes and higher prices in the big supermarkets at this point we lose everything and find ourselves on the street without any business the private buy from competition regulator is expected to last some months and could result in the

supermarkets being asked to change the terms of that agreement but it's unlikely to put a stop to them just in europe the battle lines have been clearly drawn up by companies in a bid to retain and possibly even more market share. because seeing charlotte dubinsky reporting from paris there just makes me want to go have a cafe and chill and maybe i have time to do that in my mind because that's it for this time you can catch well bust on direct t.v. channel three twenty one dish network channel two eighty or streaming twenty four seven on pluto t.v. the free t.v. at channel one thirty two or as always get the program at youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. so long for now.

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and move on with a friend to live with a young. man i want to know. this is music video games this is me it's much broader than twitter. the u.s. senate intelligence committee considers how to respond to alleged to foreign influence with social media and. also ahead. scenes of protest in zimbabwe's capital. wait for the results of the first free election in decades the opposition is accusing the ruling party of widespread fraud and. this is the registration type of crime that. the media

and the government are treating it like. the lawyer for the russian woman accused of being a kremlin agent in the u.s. tells r t the case is being blown out of proportion. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international we're glad to have you with us a day after facebook it took down thirty two fake facebook and instagram accounts the u.s. senate intelligence committee has held a hearing on how to counter russia and other countries in their alleged attempts to undermine american democracy has come into. well once again we've got u.s. officials who are talking up the dangers of influence operations and foreign meddling campaigns now as you might suspect this time as the senate intelligence

committee is hearing testimony the villain is the same after election day the russian government stepped on the gas the russians in this case and others see us as a cheap date they have long term strategic goals which include where we can in western institutions and faith in democracy the russian government came into the house of the american. family and manipulated by cyber attacks remain remain a core part of moscow's arsenal as you might suspect the story goes on the same way we've heard it many times before essentially russia is accused of encouraging controversy in the united states around issues like immigration and guns racism and all kinds of other things now one thing that's lacking in this report just like in so many other similar reports is any solid actual evidence we can you estimate the number of americans touched by russian activity in this area.

you know that is very difficult to do and i'm concerned that even after eighteen months of study we are still only scratching the surface when it comes to russia's information warfare in their effort to influence the american mind apparently the kremlin has one very very powerful weapon and that would be. a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it isn't just a couple of platforms this is music apps this is video games this is me i'm sure it's much broader than twitter and google in the portrait that the testimony painted on capitol hill you essentially got the impression that americans minds are very easily manipulated that all it takes to influence the way americans think

about world events and politics is to give them a video game on a computer or a meme to look at and all the sudden their minds are changed now repeatedly during the hearings we heard members of congress expressing frustration with the american people saying that they were angry that the american student weren't just listening to what they called the good sources and were instead listening to other other news outlets other. voices expressing different views from there we also heard a call interesting li for classes on media literacy to be given in american schools so that americans can know what news outlets they should be listening to and what news outlets they should not be listening to their e interesting it was quite a day on capitol hill. damn kovalchuk the author of the book the plot to scapegoat russia thanks thinks that the idea of us voters being significantly influenced by means should not be taken that seriously there is

a point in the goal of course is to keep the war machine going by continuing to raise the specter of a. russia somehow interfering in our democracy whatever that means but the idea that means in video games and whatever they're pointing to could have any significant influence in our democracy is frankly a joke you know it's actually very reminiscent of the first cold war where they made outlandish claims like the communists were behind for writing the watch this makes no sense at all if you look at the united states there's hollywood films that have amazing influence in every country in the world whatever and these means were video games pale in comparison to that of cultural influence in the u.s. . there are reports that three people have been killed in zimbabwe after the army opened fire on angry opposition protesters in the capital tanks moved in as

tensions rose over the delayed results of the first elections since a long time leader robert mugabe was ousted. so far only partial results have been released but the ruling zanu p.f. party is on course played parliamentary majority amid claims of vote rigging and voter intimidation e.u. observers have criticized the delay in declaring the final results and will give a further assessment later the presidential election result has not been declared either but unrest is feared if mugabe's successor emmerson. stays in power the opposition m.d.c. alliance has already to. it's kind of been nelson chamisa as the winner. and millions were drawn to polling stations on monday turnout was thought to be

around seventy five percent to first time candidates are in a close race for the presidency after mugabe was deposed in a military coup last autumn his former right hand man. took over and is being challenge for the top job by anything the electoral commission has until saturday to declared results african affairs expert johnson told us the results will define zimbabwe's relations with the west and its own future economic development. there are some huge challenges and huge repercussions for whoever wins if. m.d.c. wins. then more than likely the west will be happy if. wins and it's deemed that there were some irregularities the question is if the the west doesn't feel that they've had a fair shake in terms of this election then they could keep the sanctions going they could keep some of the factions that have actually helped or prevented

zimbabwe from developing an evolving and for its in a growth to to happen and of course. let's in limbo so. think that these elections are pivotal this is a crossroads and the decisions that are made from there from now want to especially that of the presidency mr or mr. would determine whether the west would support their claim. twitter has again found itself at the center of the debate over censorship of the latest controversy comes after it imposed a twelve hour suspension on austin peterson a republican candidate in the u.s. state of missouri senate race for what it described as abusive behavior his suspension came after a writer for the left leaning share blue website drew a link between peterson's acceptance of bitcoin for campaign financing and the alleged russian hacking a democratic senator petersen responded to that with

a jet featuring josef stalin some users flying to the candidates post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated twitter's rules but has the image was actually from the plan for its own collection and can be found on its database twitter says the tweet amounted to targeted harassment which it says is often used to silence voices on the platform but often peterson claims that there was much more to the suspension three different emails were sent to me about this saying that i had not done anything wrong mysteriously two days later the band was issued it almost seems as though something had gone on behind the scenes and that this would this was an attempt to suppress my speech during a critical election and it is quite ironic because my response was a was a picture of joseph stalin which was meant to be humorous saying off the gulag and then of course they mass reported me as if i have access to a gulag here in the state of missouri that i could that could be

a credible threat mr peterson's ban comes as twitter brings together a special research team to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness on its platform but the plan seems to be causing controversy with the assembled team already being accused of a strong anti trump bias. why don't we need to know from jonathan. something tells me a little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against trump. trump's twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge and this week to help the russians figure out who told gates in that fight he used campaign on facebook.