. -- they have been outperforming activision. emily: so it is all about star wars.nk you so much for joining us. time now for our latest "bloomberg west series, filing -- bioengineering, the census, looking at the technology on the frontier of medical science. today, we're looking at the technology behind stephen hawking and how it is helping him communicate. mr. hawking: medicine has not been able to cure me, so i allow -- i rely on technology. -- technology to help me communicate and live. emily: that technology he relies on has recently gotten an upgrade. tasks that used to take three or four minutes now take around 10 seconds. intel has been working with hawking for decades and the latest upgrade was over two years in the making. >> we completely changed the way he is interfacing with these systems. to have him not rely on the mouse. based on whatever he happens he doing, we would surface the most logical things he would want to do for emily: that applies to his text to speech system. u.k. start up swift key whose software runs productive apps on smartphones, ha