rights of unarmed citizens who have been killed by the police. but at the same time, they say that about anybody who acknowledges that there s a problem in law enforcement in this country right now is considered by law enforcement part of the problem, whether that be me, whether that be bill de blasio, whether that be president barack obama. his next film hateful eight is due in theaters christmas day. let s get down to business with cnbc s landon dowdy. good morning. watch shares of facebook today. they hit an all-time high last night as the social media giant s beat wall street forecasts. facebook has 1.55 billion users who log on at least once a month. the company is also launching a new app called notify next week that alerts users to articles on sites such as mashable and the washington post. the fda approves glaxo smith kline s new drug to treat severe asthma. it s an add-on to other asthma treatments given once a month by injection, it reduces levels of
at large for mashable along with international commercial airline pilot d.j. j. j. faust. d.j., you re already being guided by centers as you fly across the country that don t have any visual eyes on your aircraft, right? well, that s true. and though when we come in for a landing, though, we have eyes on us usually from the control tower. i do have some reservations about this new technology. obviously, look how good that drone just worked that just crashed there in l.a., right? so there s automation at its best, right? so there could be some complications with it. what also i m concerned about is not having the actual air traffic control people in the tower, tower operators, ground personnel who have that intuitive experience that know what s going to happen or what could possibly happen and avert possible disasters.
highways, you re expected to register it and operate it safely to protect the public. and i m joined now by lance ulinoff, editor at large and chief correspondent for mashable. lance, it s good to have you here also with your drone. right? this is the dg phantom 3 standard. i was flying it this weekend, actually. it feels warm, or it looks warm. we aren t going to be flying it through here although i was told we were. anyway, i will refrain from that. how do you think this is going to help or hurt the industry to have these types of regulations for registration? this is a chilling effect, obviously. because right now they re selling probably at least a million of these things a year bip the end of this year there will be a million of them in consumers hands. and that s because there s been no regulation. they buy them. anywhere from $500 to thousands of dollars. this guy s about $700. and they re really easy to use. also these are robots. they re smart. so once you send them u
there are a tremendous number of possibilities here, and these because they re robots are only going to get smarter. and you re still not going to let me fly it at a commercial break, are you? we d have to power it up. i ll just we ll make it make a little sound here for you. okay. and just it s going to you see the camera s moving. hey. all right. we are live. we would basically be ready to go now. if i did it because there s no protection on these blades, they re pretty heavy-duty, i don t want to fly tin doors. although it s got lots of control. now i understand the regulation. lance ulinoff with mashable. thanks for being here. and you too mr. drone. we appreciate your time. bernie sanders calls himself a democratic social exist soon he plans to explain exactly what he means by that. we have a preview coming up.
welcome back to the global citizen festival. we are here on the great lawn of central park in new york city. last year s festival saw 18 announcements made by world leaders on a variety of key issues. when all is said and done the impact will be felt by 259 million people by the year 2020. tickets to today s festival were free but were earned by having individuals take action to end extreme poverty. in all 48,000 tickets were handed out to today s event. 48,000. joining us now the founder and ceo of mashable, pete cashmore and executive director of in92 account street y, mashable and the 92nd y are partnering with the united nations foundation and it starts tomorrow. great to have you here. we re really excited. it s the sixth year of the social good summit running