Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our programming during the lunchtime hour. Celebrating the release of livewire if at any time click the link to purchase a chat of the book on the website. Women to submit to the q and a box which can be found at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question in the q and a. On to the main event doctor David Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist work at the National Nonprofit institute an adjunct assert. Best known for his work on time perception, his new book livewire also misled from anastasia to dreaming that revolutionized how we think he will discuss bio hackers human using echolocation in the present and future of ai im so here one excited to hear him talk today. The floor is all yours and then i will be back to moderate q and a. Thank you its a great pleasure to be here i have been to politics and prose in person. Im sorry i cannot be there this year b
Up next, a discussion on Election Security. This panel looks at preventing Voting Machines from being hacked. And talks about some of the benefits of paper ballots. Georgetown Laws Institute for Technology Law and policy hosted this series. Hi. Welcome. So im matt blaze. Im a professor here at georgetown in both the law school and Computer Science department. I want to welcome you to our afterlunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and voting. We have, on our panel, who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape. And and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for from a very wide range of different perspectives. But all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people. And im going to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they woul
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h
Tech companies from amazon to netflix are being targeted in a campaign from a large group of investors calling for transparency in Environmental Impact. Can corporations take the lead on stability . Facebook is launching a cryptocurrency called libra. Social media giant wants you to think of it like the u. S. Dollar but a currency you can use globally, if it is successful. Libra is known as a stable coin, a Digital Currency backed by government supported currencies and securities. It is the culmination of a yearlong effort as facebook seeks to spur growth on various platforms that count more than 2 billion users. Spotify, stripe, uber, visa, mastercard are among almost 30 Companies Supporting the project. Will this make it to the mainstream or will it be another overhyped facebook product that never quite takes off . One lawmaker has an opinion. Senator Sherrod Brown tweeted, facebook is already too big and too powerful and uses data to exploit privacy. We cannot allow facebook to run
Productivity washington helping drive stocks lower. Bitcoin boom, the cryptocurrency surging past 12,000 for the first time ever. And the buyback trade, home depot announces a 15 billion repurchase plan as congress looks on track to pass Major Corporate tax reform mute you futures moving lower three day losing street for First Time Since august. Data from adp, the private sector added exactly 190,000 jobs that was the estimate in fact. The year to date average now, 209, which is better than last years 181 well see what friday brings. Look, i think were in one of those moments when i used to trade professionally where you would come in and say it wants to go down i was watching will and morgan this morning japan is down. I said to you on cross talk, copper had a bad day you know, theres a belief that maybe tech is slowing down, which i cant find i ask everybody there isnt a big firm where is tech slowing down, cant come up with it. But the market wants to go lower and its okay. If we ha