the world's oldest computer company i.b.m. is splitting itself into 2 units to diversify away from its legacy businesses and focus on high margin cloud computing i.b.m. will list its i.t. infrastructure services unit with new name by the end of 2021 i.b.m. stock was 7 percent up on the news. a french court says google must open talks with publishers in france about paying to use their content paving the way for an industry wide deal in the country the ruling compels news aggregator google to sit down with publishers and news agencies to find a way to pay them for content to use under e.u. copyright s. . now that is not a cure for covert 19 but it can help ease chronic pain and conditions such as multiple sclerosis and epilepsy cannabis and there's plenty of it in thailand and now the government there hopes it could also be a look at if exports hit. elsewhere it's inconceivable the health minister the man in the middle aging in the cultivation of cannabis a newton child of iraq will join the hundreds of employees of the thai go

the world's oldest computer company i.b.m. is slipping itself into 2 units to diversify away from its legacy businesses and focus on high margin cloud computing i.b.m. will list its i.t. infrastructure services unit with a new name by the end of 2021 i.b.m. stock climbed firmly on the news. and germany's one time booming startup scene has hit the brakes state investment bank says there are 70000 of the small innovation driven firms in the country same numbers in 2018 the report as a weakened economy in a stable labor market mean fewer people are willing to take the risk. the british economic recovery slowed in august growing by 2 point one percent over the slows increase since the economy began to recover from the pandemic in may analysts say growth will slow down further in the coming months through the new kroner restrictions and concern over a no deal bragg's it. let's go over to asia now it's not a cure for covert 19 but it can help ease chronic pain in the symptoms of diseases like multiple sclerosis cannabis has plenty o

corporations like i.b.m. are just hollowing out their company and so you have to go to china to get all your goods right so china is experiencing a v. shaped recovery you know kobe had like a mediocre hit planet earth boom and some areas of the earth you know that benefit because they that were not hit by the media or in some got hit by the media or right so china did not get hit by the covert media or we can go into the details about their response except her i mean i'm i'm just stoically you read remarking on the facts of the case i'm not making a judgment here and as a result they are ship and stuff to the west coast and a record amount. in the course the trade imbalance is going to get up wide open and this is the beginning of the china century yeah i mean all that data looks like perhaps we could turn around who knows. a lot of this is set in motion by joe biden and the polls suggest he's going to win so i don't know like what he'll do to be able to stop it especially you know at this point in his career

gender shades shows that the algorithms work especially bad on black women in response to this study i.b.m. brought out a new dataset called diversity in faces it consists of creative commons photos of 1000000 people of different skin colors and can be used to train data by the global research community in mid june companies like i.b.m. amazon and microsoft officially declared that they would not supply face recognition technology to the police anymore but nowadays software developers are not only working on artificial intelligence to recognize our faces but also the mood where. human emotions are complex as is expressing them using the face scientists at the german found institute for integrated circuits train algorithms to recognize emotional patterns in human faces but the universal expressions even exist for emotions like anger grief and fear. some for different aspects of the things express emotion and certain muscle movements create a look of joy anger grief anger and so on from that's universally understood in most cultures and the things we can discern from the facial expressions o

is prime minister i.b.m.'s came to power in 28 he promised a new era of democratic reforms and today is to use the toughest critics book prisoners were free opposition parties were allowed to operate and happy on that even won the nobel prize for securing peace with neighboring eritrea but since then the future of this complex country has become more uncertain earlier this year we went to find out what. 2 years ago ethiopia seemed on the cusp over a mockable paradigm shift. and widespread anti-government protests which many once feared could develop into old out civil war had instead forced an entrenched authoritarian regime from power. amid the euphoria a new young and charismatic prime minister ahmed came to power. he promised to unify a nation divided on ethnic lines and spritz by factional battles between powerful individuals. but since his election it's become clear that's a formidable challenge. in march this year just as the coronavirus was taking hold we arrived in ethiopia to find out why. the 2018 ap

gender shade shows that the algorithms work especially bad on black women in response to this study i.b.m. brought out a new dataset called diversity in faces it consists of creative commons photos of 1000000 people of different skin colors and can be used to train data by the global research community in mid june companies like i.b.m. amazon and microsoft officially declared that they would not supply face recognition technology to the police anymore but nowadays software developers are not only working on artificial intelligence to recognise our faces but also the mood where. human emotions are complex as is expressing them using the face scientists at the german found wolf institute for integrated circuits train algorithms to recognize emotional patterns in human faces but the universal expressions even exist for emotions like anger grief and fear. some for different aspects of the things express emotion and certain muscle movements create a look of joy anger grief anger and so on that's universally understood in most cultures and the things we can discern from the basal expressions of

gender shades shows that the algorithms work especially bad on black women in response to this study i.b.m. brought out a new dataset called diversity in faces it consists of creative commons photos of 1000000 people of different skin colors and can be used to train data by the global research community in mid june companies like i.b.m. amazon and microsoft of fishley declared that they would not supply face recognition technology to the police anymore but nowadays software developers are not only working on artificial intelligence to recognize our faces but also the mood we're. human emotions a complex as is expressing and using the face scientists at the german found institute for integrated circuits train algorithms to recognise emotional patterns in human faces but the universal expressions even exist for emotions like anger grief and fear. some for different aspects of the things spatial expressions of another human are things that we can also teach software to us with a very high success rate. to train the software the research is also use photos of faces which clearly. defined expre

the world's oldest computer company i.b.m. is splitting itself into 2 units to diversify away from its legacy businesses and focus on high margin cloud computing i.b.m. will list its i.t. infrastructure services unit with a new name by the end of 2021 i.b.m. stock climbed firmly on the news. germany's one time booming startup scene has hit the brakes state investment bank says there are 70000 of the small innovation driven firms in the country same numbers in 2018 the report as a weakened economy in a stable labor market mean fewer people are willing to take the risk. the british economic recovery slowed in august growing by 2 point one percent over the slows increase since the economy began to recover from the pandemic in may analysts say growth will slow down further in the coming months through the new kroner restrictions and concern over a no deal brags that. well let's go over to asia now it's not a cure for covert 19 but it can help ease chronic pain in the symptoms of diseases like multiple sclerosis cannabis there's pl

to other companies so they kind of behind the scenes but then every so often you have the light of i.b.m. or in this case amazon which has a big push into the south african market and that of course is not just about the jobs but it's also arrayed locally and i think internationally as a vote of confidence in south africa and specifically in the business processing our source space so i think a name such as amazon carries a great deal of weight in the context. when we think of outsourcing i think a lot of us think of india and that is because of the sheer weight of numbers that they have in that country but what is it about south africa the makes it attractive to these companies. a number of things that make india somewhat more attractive according to most recent studies it's a familiar legal system it's a large population of people who are english competent and can speak english with art at that without a great accent with a very noticeable exit but importantly for south africa is time zone simply we are we share a time zone with much of western europe that makes it much more convenient

i.b.m. or a corvette after all. it's important to notice that they weren't in distress the risk you ship simply filmed the migrants near the libyan coast then took them to italy. 2 2 who are on the fertile ground to do a journey and i divide that up and there we are disinviting at 1032 people from the aquarius here in italy these people were found in the central mediterranean sea unsee where is the rubber boats and they were in danger to drown so if we had not been there they they would have died in geo ships began to ferry thousands of illegal migrants to europe newspapers reported that they were being rescued clues to the sicilian sure but many say that isn't the case in mainstream media not least the. jani. one of the live fake news or bad propaganda. this young italian decided to compare newspaper articles with the actual itineraries of rescue ships which is how he exposed one of the biggest scams of the last decade. be more of the someone a lot of fun though. the media. been even all. of. us. she put out that a

tool when you look back to those other tech cases you mention the microsoft case earlier but also i.b.m. those cases often take decades and even excess solution is found for example in the 18 tiebreak out that's usually pointed to as kind of the time that antitrust work it can be decades of enforcement and oversight after that so indeed this is just the start of an antitrust case and we'll likely see much more conversation but the fact that a case was filed is still significant and could still have a significant impact on the future of innovation as well as on decisions that are being made at big tech companies it's interesting you mention the word innovation because move moving forward isn't it possible that the litigation will take so long and in that time technology will change so quickly that once we get to i guess we get to the courtroom this entire case could be a moot point that is that possible innovation can be one of the best competition policies well we've seen in the past is that sometimes when we're looking at the market we're looking at it far too small and the next animat

probably have no trouble doing work remotely but then you have like and shin traditional companies like i.b.m. or 18 t. or something where you have this you know history of hierarchy showing up for work etc will these giants have trouble operating as efficiently as they were with you know people working from home. we're seeing it across industry and across size of company in across age of company even c.e.o.'s are making statements that they surprise themselves that they've been converted you know not everybody not every organization is going to have a huge percentage of their employees working remotely and i think it's important to say that it's not likely to be a full time thing meet the sweet spot is 2 to 3 days a week and that's been true you know as long as i've been doing this for for almost 20 years i mean it's going to be some people that are fully remote but you know i don't think these large companies are suddenly going to give up all the real estate and the fact is we do individual work and we do teamwork and what we've learned from a pandemic is really we can actually function jus

made but there's most of this the nationalism and identity taiwan's position in the so-called 1st i.b.m. chain scutching china southeast makes it highly important from a strategic point of view. controlling it could fatally undermine that america's current power in the region and of taiwan paul. if one were to be occupied by the chinese military analysts in eastern bloc to book the chinese invasion threat looking through 3 strategic questions then it becomes almost impossible to defend our entire network or pretty our image of that how do we. blockade at that point or how do we defend south korea how do we get from the philippines because at any time they could be invaded from taiwan if they tried it there and conversely controlling taiwan would be crucial for china assuring up its own position china would be quite fearful if another country had forces on taiwan because then it would have i in a sense a base place where. force could be projected against china and that is the biggest fear that china has. now if the chinese were able to occupy taiwan in that way aid them in projecting for

the next major city is on the shores of the hudson river the liberal city of kingston used to be an i.b.m. production location but the company left and took with it the jobs that have kept the city going but now the city is experiencing an unexpected revival property prices have gone through the roof. when a good home comes on the market that lasts for an hour or 2 hours maybe a day before off or start coming in and usually within a day or a week and it is off the market and sold about asking price rents are rising supermarkets are adapting and local restaurants a fine shooting their menus doing everything they can to make the new new york customers happy live jazz at an outdoor market on the weekend most new yorkers feel at home in kingston. the influx is obvious it seems like top of brooklyn has gathered here but the locals don't seem to mind i call them corona refugees from the city because there's i mean it's it's a it's a wave that just suddenly came up and. i think it's good for business families come in would be great you know our school district has been having fewer and fewer kid

tool when you look back to those other tech cases you mention the microsoft case earlier but also i.b.m. those cases often take decades and even if a solution is found for example in the 18 t. breakout that's usually pointed to as kind of the time that antitrust work it can be decades of them forcing an oversight after that and so indeed this is just the start of an antitrust case and we'll likely see much more conversation but the fact that a case was filed is still significant and could still have a significant impact on the future of innovation as well as on decisions that are being made at big tech companies it's interesting you mention the word innovation because move moving forward isn't it possible that the litigation will take so long and in that time technology will change so quickly that once we get to i guess we get to the courtroom this entire case could be a moot point is that possible innovation can be one of the best competition policies well we've seen in the past is that sometimes when we're looking at the market we're looking at it far too small and the next animators

and not from without and clearly the american empire is killing itself and a great example would be i.b.m. international business machines they bought back 130000000000 dollars of their own stock in the current market cap is around 110000000000 that's a way to commit corporate suicide by just buying back their own stock but never investing in r. and d. new products marketing just let yourself die a few executives can walk away with huge golden handshakes and retirements now let's talk about j.p. morgan and finance all talk about financial services this seems to be an emerging story down yet in financial it's an incredible story they're doing their road show for their i.p.o. now this week in europe u.s. and china they're going to have the largest i.p.o. the world ever seen going to value them at 350000000000 dollars their i.q. can be bigger than saudi. amoco we're going to raise about $3030000000000.00 there's estimates it could go up to a half a trillion dollar bill you ation company it's going to in one shot be way bigger than j.p. morgan and i like that if you compared contrast in finan

tool when you look back to those other tech cases you mention the microsoft case earlier but also i.b.m. those cases often take decades and even if a solution is found for example in the 18 t. breakout that's usually pointed to as kind of the time that antitrust work it can be decades of enforcement and oversight after that so indeed this is just the start of an antitrust case and we'll likely see much more conversation but the fact that a case was filed is still significant and could still have a significant impact on the future of innovation as well as on decisions that are being made at big tech companies it's interesting you mention the word innovation because move moving forward isn't it possible that the litigation will take so long and in that time technology will change so quickly that once we get to i guess we get to the courtroom this entire case could be a moot point is that possible innovation can be one of the best competition policies well we've seen in the past is that sometimes when we're looking at the market we're looking at far too small and the next and latest thing

tool when you look back to those other tech cases you mention the microsoft case earlier but also i.b.m. there's cases often take decades and even if a solution is found for example in the 18 tiebreak out that's usually pointed to as kind of the time that antitrust work it can be decades of enforcement and oversight after that so indeed this is just the start of an antitrust case and we'll likely see much more conversation but the fact that a case was filed is still significant and could still have a significant impact on the teacher innovation as well as on decisions that are being made at big tech companies it's interesting you mention the word innovation because move moving forward isn't it possible that the litigation will take so long and in that time technology will change so quickly that once we get to i guess we get to the courtroom this entire case could be a moot point is that possible innovation can be one of the best competition policies well we've seen in the past is that sometimes when we're looking at the market we're looking at it far too small and the next and they just

it was in the early ninety's that robert mercer left i.b.m. to work for run a song technologies. there he applied his methods of calculation on the stock exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. at relaxants technologies he pioneered algorithmic trading which now is you know a massive field written sources source something which still remains a bit secret about tarzan make profit in markets but the origin of it is in applying for unst computer techniques to the data without worrying about fear of where the economy is going or what are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if you're buying wheat. or if you're buying a car company. you don't really care that it's a car company or that it's wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tool. robert mercer revolutionized renaissance technologies investment methods making it the world's most profitable fund into a new year's. message became very rich. because the performance of the fund which he had his own m

other companies survey they kind of behind the scenes but then every so often you have the light of i.b.m. or in this case amazon which has a big push into the south african market and that of course is not just about the jobs but it's also read locally and i think internationally as a vote of confidence in south africa and specifically in the business processing our source space so i think a name such as amazon carries a great deal of weight in the context. when we think of outsourcing i think a lot of us think of india and that is because of the sheer weight of numbers that they have in that country but what is it about south africa the makes it attractive to these companies. a number of things that make india somewhat more attractive according to most recent studies it's a familiar legal system it's a large population of people who are english competent and can speak english with art at that without a great accent with arcas very noticeable exit but importantly for south africa is time zone simply we are we share a time zone with much of western europe that makes it much more convenien

aeration front accuses prime minister i.b.m.it of using the current coronavirus pandemic to hold on to power after he delayed elections in august it's now called on all its national parliament representatives to resign last month ahmed's government called parliamentary elections held integrate illegal but officials there disagree. the prime minister would organize a deputy prime minister we don't recognise the cabinet. ministers we don't recognise the parliament we don't we could move the house of it over as other institutions have to continue to. provide services. to the activities the national defense forces if you're going to feel a little forces. are expected to defend the country civility. rwanda's top prosecutor is seeking to merge the case of the man known as the hotel rwanda hero with that of 18 detained the former rebels paula rusesabagina is on trial for terrorism and as admitted backing opposition groups during rwanda's 1994 genocide but he denies participating in violence the prosecutor general says he'll submitted j