A frontrunner has dropped out of the rights to become the democratic nominee for president. This is a truly breathtaking action by an accountable Political Institution masquerading as a legal body. The u. S. Secretary of state slams the International Criminal court after it agrees to take up a case surrounding alleged atrocities in afghanistan. And in sport indias women make cricketing history without a ball being bowled through the t 20 world cup finals despite the semi against england being rained off. Welcome to the news all the president s of russia and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria after 6 hours of talks in moscow they agreed on the need to deescalate province. We are going to establish a cease fire and we are going to take the necessary steps very quickly tonight exactly at midnight we are going to declare a cease fire. So yes need we are going to agree an International Memorandum which can be signed by our ministers of Foreign Affairs in the course of more than 6 h
Fail miserably. But he says that is all part of the magic. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, astro teller, head of alphabets x lab. And captain of moonshots, which is your official title, as i understand it. Astro it is. I function as the ceo, but i go by captain of moonshots. Emily you rolled in on wheels. This is your standard mode of transportation . Astro it is. Emily how much time do you think you shave off . Astro i have worked that out. Its about eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] astro its a big building. Emily you are making the most of those eight minutes. We are in the x lab, just a couple miles south of googles headquarters. This is where the magic happens, or sometimes doesnt happen, as you are quick to point out, because you have far more failures than you do successes. What is the mission of x . Astro x was created to be the part of alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waymo, the selfdriving car business
And weapons the promise and the peril of the digital age. Im tom giles, in for emily chang. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, brad smith, president of microsoft. Tom brad, thanks for being with us today. A lot of the last year has been spent talking about and spilling ink over this complex relationship between the u. S. And china. Id like to hear more about your concerns about the way this is playing out between the u. S. And china, and what impact that could have on u. S. Technological leadership on a global arena. Brad the u. S. Is the Digital Technology leader in the world today, but one of the important things for all of us to remember is that we dont actually invent or create technology by ourselves. If you buy an American Technology product, a product that is made by an american company, in all probability, it consists of inventions that came from Silicon Valley as well as bangalore and beijing and dublin and london, toronto and melbourne and the like. We need to continu
Speak to consumers, expected to spend a whopping 7. 4 billion today according to a dopey analytics. Jackie deangelis joins us from a mall and edison, new jersey. What is it look like right now . Well, its starting to heat up. Behind me, macys was open from 5 00 p. M. Last night in the mall is just opening inside in the concourse now so you can see h and m is still closed the people are lining up outside. Down here we have an Urban Outfitters with people getting ready to go in as well and as you said the projection is for over 7 billion this year hoping to set new records last year black friday spending was about 6. 2 billion. The average consumer that comes out today is expected to spend about 400, but the question is, is at the same kind of black friday we are used to to maybe five years ago or 10 years ago . People would line up and storm the stores for deals. You can get a lot of deals online in the deals in the stores, the discounts have been active pretty much all this week. From
The message beyond microsofts campus with a new book, tools and weapons, the promise and the peril of the digital age. Im tom giles, in for emily chang. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, brad smith, president of microsoft. Tom brad, thanks for being with us today. A lot of the last year has been spent talking about and spilling ink over this complex relationship between the u. S. And china. Id like to hear more about your concerns about the way this is playing out between the u. S. And china, and what impact that could have on u. S. Technological leadership on a global arena. Brad the u. S. Is the Digital Technology leader in the world today, but one of the important things for all of us to remember is that we dont actually invent or create technology by ourselves. If you buy an American Technology product, a product that is made by an american company, in all probability, it consists of inventions that came from Silicon Valley as well as bangalore and beijing and dublin and l