Big tech is under the spotlight today, with leading firms summoned to the white house for a meeting on curbing violent online extremism. It comes just days after two Mass Shootings in the us, which left 31 people dead. The suspect in the texas shooting posted material on the controversial 8chan online message board before the attack. Pressure was already mounting on tech firms after the christchurch shootings in new zealand, which were livestreamed on facebook. 51 people perished in the attack. The Global Internet forum to counter terrorism, set up by firms like facebook and twitter, have already pledged to do more to identify and remove extremist content and says its rolled out a Cross Platform counter violent extremist toolkit. The forum has also promised to do more to block offensive content as violent events actually unfold. But that may not be enough for white house officials. Donald trump says he wants the tech firms to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they stri
Ceiling. They say the company pays men more than women, for the same work and want their lawsuit to be granted classaction status. But first, to our top story, billionaire terry may no longer be the chair of apples largest supplier but that isnt stopping him from trying to keep the relationship going for years to come. Hes stepped down from that role to focus on his campaign to become president of taiwan and he wants to make sure tensions between the u. S. And china dont force apple to leave the country. Speaking from the perspective of the republic of china ill plead with apple to come to taiwan. This comes after its said they were asked to shift from china to southeast asia. To discuss, we have venture partner munster and in l. A. , bloomberg text resident apple watcher. So there is some confusion about what terry gou said. He made some remarks and then later clarify them. What did he say and mean . The context here is very important. I think this might be getting a little blown out
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tesla is recalling over 350,000 of its us vehicles to update its full self driving beta software system. this, after regulators said it did not properly adhere to traffic safety laws. tesla will now release a free update for the system. but as my colleague samira hussain explains, the full self driving beta software is a big part of tesla. this self driving technology for tesla is a big part of its business plan. it s what tesla and elon musk has been pushing and elon musk has been pushing and they believe it is the absolute future. elon musk has also said this self driving technology is better and in many cases safer than just regular drivers. but what tesla has shown is there has been incidents in which some of these technologies have caused accidents. while in this particular software update instance, they are saying that, look, what we are doing is to try and get this update to happen because there could be some issues when going through traffic, circles, going through in
Hello and welcome. The uk foreign secretary, dominic raab, is in washington today where he is expected to try to reassure us politicians concerned about the British Governments plans to override parts of the brexit withdrawal deal with the european union. In a letter to borisjohnson, four senior congressmen three democrats and a republican have warned a uk us trade deal would be blocked if there was any risk to the good friday agreement. It says our north american correspondent david willis has been looking at the letter in detail. The leader of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi made her opposition to this critically out last week, making a claim that if rex had undermined the good friday agreement, the uk could kiss goodbye any prospect of a much valued trade deal with the United States. Brexit. Four senior United States. Brexit. Four senior congressmen United States. Brexit. Four senior congressmen have issued a similarwarning in senior congressmen have issued a similar warn