google is also pursuing calico and ways to make our health better. what do you think?d like to celebrate 150. we have done work on cancer research and other things. there has been almost no research on life extension. life span is about 120 years max or so for people, and a think there's an opportunity to look into it to see what we can do. if calico finds a solution, then they have a customer. >> sebastian thrun, thanks so much. always great to have you on the show. happy holidays. uber says it is developing biometric technology to improve its driver screening process, but will fingerprinting and voice recognition software actually help? we'll talk with a former fbi biometrics expert next. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. uber is promising safer rights for passengers and more rigorous screening for drivers. the company promises to bring voice-recognition technology, biographic screening following allegations that over drivers raped passengers in both india and boston. if warmer fbi biometrics expert joins me now from washington -- a former fbi biometric

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left at the altar looking out her dirty window at the happy lives of the laughing girls in their caliconts, knowing that her only pleasure will be the evening bath she draws from the moisture of george bush's soiled and blood-soaked underwear. [cheers] -i'm sorry, mr. penn. the correct metaphor is dick cheney is a shattered visage half sunk in the sand, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read. -ah, i was gonna say that! [audience laughs] robert pinsky: the score is zero, zero. next category, computer. -no whammies, no whammies, no whammies, now whammies, no whammies! -human emotion. human emotion. gentlemen, a metaphor for love. [buzz] robert pinsky: mr. penn? -love is a fragile flower opening to the first warmth of spring, whose crimson petals are not as red as george bush's soiled and blood-soaked underwear. [cheers] -no. no, i'm sorry. mr. colbert for the steal. -love is a full length mirror? [cheers] -that's, that's incorrect. the correct metaphor was love is a battlefield. a battlefield. the score is still zero to zero.

. >> what about trying to cure death, calico? >> this did not come from google x. it is another audacious moonshot. this is what i admire google for. there are no people around that lived for 200 years and we don't understand why. there is actually very little research done as compared to research on curing cancer. i think it is a perfectly fine proposition to say, let's give it a try. if google succeeds in finding a remedy for old age dying, i would say that they have done something fantastic for the world. and they will make a dime or two as well. >> what kind of things do you explore if you are trying to extend our lives to 200 years? >> there is a lot of genetic information that is interesting. we know, for example that our cells have some kind of counter built-in. we also know that we produce new cells. the counter gets reset in interesting ways. a lot of potential to think about what is the information that manifests housing? >> you think we will see this in our lives? >> yes, i believe we will. >> what is the brainstorming session inside google x like? >> i

that if you can believe "the new york times" two weeks ago published a big story on finding some old calico and biological weapons between four and 2011. that they were all weapons of the 80s and '90s they were not current weapons, they were degrading, they were leaking, they were not usable. so it proved what we already knew. hussein certainly had weapons in the 1980s and had a program that lasted until about mid-1990s to develop more. but the un sanctions kept a lid on him and by the mid-'90s he had no current usable weapons of mass distraction. >> yes-man. the air any other developing that we thought that they were hiding, so do you belief that isis has erupted in the form of distracting us from them to continue to build without our drones and things focusing on them. this issue is sunni extremists. they don't like each other. there is a body of thought that says we should leave the problem to the iranian mullahs who don't like them to the current iraqi government that doesn't like them which is still a shiite majority into a sob in syria. the problem is bad news for missiles and fightin