Epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. Theyre difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. How do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola . Its a very hard thing to do. So we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. They bite everything from animals from amphibians and reptiles all the way up to humans and chickens. Host so why would microsoft be working on a project like that . Guest well, when we think about Machine Learning, when we think about robotics, one of the things we want to understand is what how is it going to be useful. And disease epidemics are an example where we know getting the right data is incredibly challenging, analyzing the data is incredibly challenging, so we believe there are some important Inflection Points. Host all right. Walk us
Microsoft technology fair. Former president bill clinton talks about the opioid emepidemic. Hillary clinton rallies supporters at the home Rights Campaign and jeff bezos receives an award for his work fighting for samesex marriage. The the communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year. Heres one of two of them at microsofts washington, dc headquarters. My name is jackson, im a researcher at milwaukee research and work on project premonition which is using mosquitoes as devices to predict the next epidemic. 60 to 75 of caused by pathogens in animal populations. Very difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola is from fruit flies. How do you monitor the population of egyptian fruit bats. The projection premonition imagines using a mosquito as a device. They bite all sorts of animals taking blood samples. There are 3600 known species of mosquitoes mosquitoes and they bite everything from reptiles couple humans and chickens. Why would mi
Apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putins strength. Today, however, The American President seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against Western Civilisation. During a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. With the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnights diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring The American President s apocalyptic warning. Its the president s second visit to europe and todays speech was billed as a big Foreign Policy moment. Given in warsaws Krasinski Square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. It fell to the first lady to do the warm up. The president of the United States, donald] trump. And with that, trump set out his stall of
It is, after all, just two days, but a year in which stocks have been rarer than two days without a gop president ial debate, investors will take it. The s p 500 and nasdaq are up about 5 . The rally is broad and it seems to be sticking and it even happened add oil prices fell. Thats a require disconnect this year. Today the Dow Jones Rose 222 points to 16,196. Nasdaq gained more than 2 or 98 points and the s p 500 rose 30. Two of this years most battered sectors, finance and Technology Le the way today. Bob led the report on why the bulls are in charge for now. Reporter the markets are putting together one of the few multiday rallies. Its the best twoday rally since august of last year. Whats change . Its high level talking. First the russiasaudi talk of a freeze in oil production. These are the two biggest producers in the world agreeing something is wrong. Even though oil is down, more than 60 of the Energy Sector was up. Secondly, theres concern about weak growth in chi and a big d
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