They are buying img worldwide. From ipos to smart watches, 2013 has been an exciting year from tech. We are breaking down the top tech stories and the biggest controversies this year. Government surveillance taking a new turn today recommending significant changes. The white house released the findings just hours ago. They said surveillance should continue but with significant restrictions. There are 46 recommendations including making it harder for the fed to get access by having third parties store the call data. The government would have to get a court order to access the records and the panels also calling for new criteria for eavesdropping on foreign leaders. This comes one day after talking technology with tim cook, sheryl sandberg, and are a semi. Phil mattingly joins us now. What can you say about the reaction to these recommendations . They would have a major impact on how intelligence policy is put together. You listed are the big ones. The key is the storage issue. In this m
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
You will hear his remarks to the obama administration. And we introduce you to huddle house, a Company Making a business footprints across the United States. Lets start in washington, d. C. Mark zuckerberg and five other Technology Executives meeting with president obama at the white house right now. They are talking privacy and government reforms. Bloombergs megan hughes is outside the white house and means me now. What do we know about this meeting . This meeting got underway at 4 00. No sign of them coming out just yet. They have been in there for an hour now. You mentioned facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg. Also google chairman eric schmidt, Reed Hastings from netflix, another from dropbox among others. Among those who declined the invitation, marissa mayer, the ceo from twitter. Some of the things were watching number one, zuckerbergs growing public frustration with nsa surveillance. We know that he spoke with president obama earlier this month over the phone. He posted of facebook blo
Bill President Trump warning his opponent could alter the shape of the Supreme Court if i elected. President trump the first thing washington democrats will do if biden gets elected is pack the Supreme Court with radical left judges who will eliminate your Second Amendment and many other things. Look at the things they have to rule on. They will pack it. Somebody said 16. I said why not 18, 20, 22 . Sandra Fox Team Coverage. Bret baier, martha maccallum, Jonathan Turley and Chris Wallace. Bret, to you first on what were about to see on capitol hill. Lindsey graham has entered the room. Today is the big vote that goes through committee and on to the senate tomorrow. There is not a lot of surprise here what will happen. Republicans have the numbers on the committee and why he is the chairman. The surprise is that democrats are not showing up. And thats different. Its a boycott that is making a statement but it is not going to make a difference as far as Amy Coney Barrett making it to the
Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad