John fortt is live in las vegas at this years Consumer Electronics show so much news coming from ces today, bringing us to faang stocks joining us this morning to talk about it, btigs managing director, andy hargreaves, Senior Research analyst. Good morning to you both on ces, so many of these names are presenting this week, are having workshops for developers, and unveiling ostensibly technologies that are going to drive earnings higher. How much of a catalyst is ces this week . Theres always something that becomes the theme of the show, but it doesnt always necessarily translate into a lot of revenue and Earnings Growth we talked about Artificial Intelligence and the goggles that people were wearing a couple of years ago for virtual reality, excuse me, and didnt really materialize in anything that significant for these companies. So its fun to see new products and hear a lot of the teams update investors to start the year off, but i wouldnt get too overboard on it impacting 2018 or g
To be here. Im here to talk a little bit about my book which is called the body builders, inside the science of the engineered human and some of the trends that i reviewed. Its funny to be here because im i left d. C. , i used to cover capitol hill a few years ago, i left and said i was never coming back. It actually relates because i covered congress for a newspaper in new jersey and i left in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask every congressman what they thought of the days news. So i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go and i moved to the country of cambodia and i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there and it was an amazing experience, people were the country was emerging from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in one one in four people died of murder, starvation and disease. What really struck me while i was there was this theme of human resilience and it was a very valuable experience af
Carnival as Rio De Janeiro gears up for the festivities these women are dancing for change they want to party in peace for good in the end was sexual harassment. Also on the program v. W. Travels to norway as part of our road to break that series breaking up is hard to do but could the norway model for britain no regrets in its post breaks a future. So im terry barton good to have you with us. Germanys two biggest Political Parties have finally agreed on a deal to form a Coalition Government they made the announcement in berlin after another grueling game of give and take more than four months after the countrys elections but both chancellor of the medical and her social democrat counterpart Martin Shultz say the agreement is the only way to guarantee german stability after a marathon thirty four hours of negotiations it was old strained smiles for the would be Coalition Partners with the working compromise achieved relief from the chancellor. Its been about sort i am convinced that th
The country. Cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators, more of our visit to las vegas and the Consumer Electronics show which is one of the largest trade shows in the world, about 200,000 people come every year to see it. About 47 Million People visit vegas on a regular basis. So heres more from ces. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host so, adelyn zhou is, what do you do for a living . Guest i am the chief operating officer of topbots focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We help executives, one, figure out what this Artificial Intelligence is, this technology, and two, how to actually use it and apply it within their businesses. Host and ive been asking everybody this, how do you define Artificial Intelligence . Guest its a great question. I think we define it as using computers or technology to reach human or even beyond human levels of ability whether its auto
Bitter medicine is taking effect greeces back on International Markets today scheuer has already moved on to his new job as president of the bundestag and the next german finance minister could well be this man hes a probusiness centrist all of shots for his from the social Democrat Coalition partners and could soften the harsh face of austerity. And Business Executives will struggle to convince schultz to adopt a new Corporate Tax cuts modeled on those passed in the United States which have triggered a flood of investment the last Corporate Tax overhaul here was a decade ago the association of german chambers of commerce and industry praises the Coalition Pact for investing in Digital Education and broadband but theres criticism from other groups that nothing much is going to change under another grand coalition we spoke to tino boat man of germanys Engineering Association the v. D. M. A he was certainly rather lukewarm about the coalitions tax plan its there is no increase of income