Culture. You are another visitor nothing yet you want to become citizens. In for migrants your platform the information. Clinics we p. D. F. And firefox o. Have one thing in common their source code is open meaning everyone can work on the code but recently Major Tech Companies have several big open source projects how will that impact the open source space when it becomes less open our topic today unshift. Open Source Software is unique in that it lets anyone access and develop its source code they. Source movement emerged as the anti thesis through commercial Software Businesses tech giants tend to keep their proprietary code secret Companies Like microsoft sell expensive user licenses off its patent to code the companys founder bill gates even referred to open source projects as a new form of communism now microsoft has shelled out 6500000000 euros for good hap a key open Source Software Development Platform and i. B. M. Recently bought open Source Software developer redhat for a st
Now if we take a look at the impact of wildfires on the u. S. Electric grid, mitigation technology, Forest Management and power system reliability. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. Last hearing of the year here. Theres a lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard to stop at 11 00 oclock this morning. A series of votes that are beginning at 11 00 a. M. And we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock, we are told. It will be the first time in Senate History but that is the goal. We want to be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase good resiliency. In recent years devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the chal
Hi, lets get this show on the road. Wow, thats loud. Okay. Here we go. All right. So welcome on behalf of our bipartisan and bicameral leadership to this briefing of the Helsinki Commission. Its mandated to monitor compliance with International Norms and standards in europe. This includes norms in the military affairs, economic and Environmental Affairs and human rights. I cover that second category. I do a lot of work on anticorruption economics and im so honored and pleased to have with us minister john pimrose, prime ministers anticorruption all the way from the european union. Even if we have other questions or concerns were ending sharp at 10 15. So just the briefest of opening remarks. Globalized corruption is one of the greatest threats facing the United States today. Authorize attorney klepto crats hide on our shores and allies providing protection for stolen assets and a vector of influence into our political system. Once established they set about hollowing out the rule of la
We begin with a cup of joe starbucks was launched almost 50 years ago with one store in seattle. Today the brand has 30,000 stores around the globe, serving 100 million customers a week so, how does a company of this size and scale continue to innovate and stay nimble brewing up change is this weeks cover story and our kate rogers has more reporter inside this 20,000squarefoot facility at its headquarters in seattle, starbucks is trying something a bit different. The coffee giant is acting more like a startup than a 48yearold Global Corporation this is the trier center, where starbucks projects are going from idea to action in 100 days flat. We now have 30,000 stores around the world serving 100 million customers a week and with scale and complexity, it can become the enemy of speed. And so, this was all about how we transform the way we work at starbucks so that we can accelerate the velocity of innovation. Reporter employees at the companys headquarters are able to pitch ideas via a
Ceo of media health on helping employees navigate a change of life. Thats this week on press here. Good morning, everyone. Im scott mcgrew. If you looked at earth from space there would be no obvious sign anyone lived here. Its just a Big Blue Marble or a pale blue dot, but if you look closely enough you might start to see the stuff we humans leave lying around, the carcass of an Apollo Lander on the moon, a deep space probe or all those satellites that weve put into orbit. Astronomers call those techno signatures and my first guest is the Principal Investigator in a nasafunded effort to find techno signatures on other words to look for aliens, dr. Adam frank is an astro physicist and his new book little book of aliens talk about astro signatures. First, i want to understand techno signatures and you may remember the movie contact that does a great job of how video waves propagate out in the space and weve been looking for signals from other planets looking for that in decades and tech