Rose we continue with a look at a new driverless car produced by google with chris urmson and ron medford. Weve done about 700,000 miles of driving, the cars driving themselves, and weve gathered that data, and now we can use that data to have the algorithms learn what does a person look like when theyre about to change a lane and learn where is that cyclist about to move, and these kind of predictions are what the human brain does constantly. Rose we conclude this evening with the great writer George Saunders who made a commencement speak that became a book called congratulations, by the way. What i tried to do is in the setting where people are more open than usual, its a big day, try to make the case that kindness is not this kind amorphous, gauzy, optional thing that we add on, but its actually an essential human characteristic, and it should be parent of an intellectual life. Its a valid intellectual concept that anybody who is a writer or an artist or just a citizen should take s
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Good evening, everyone. My name is john highbush and i have the honor of being the i have the honor of being the executive director. Of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for joining us this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world if you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. As everyone here knows we are gathered. Not too far from hollywood. Its a fact. That hollywood that without hollywood there would have been no platform for Ronald Reagan to establish himself first as an actor. President of Screen Actors Guild host of ge theater and a political commentator without that political commentary there would have been no governor Ronald Reagan and certainly no president Ronald Reagan. So tha
This morning after the dow and the s p toastposted their best gains of the year. And carl icahn said one company has the worst Corporate Governance hes ever seen and Steve Ballmer making his first address since leaving microsoft, he did not disappoint coming to you later this hour. But first up well start with the markets, stocks coming off a record session, the s p a record high and the dow and the s p having their best day since december 18th. And adp showed the economy created fewer private sector jobs in february as the cold weather restrains hiring. You said the data has been okay. The durables and the chicago pmis have been all right. We have great data out of europe pmi. How could the economy be good and stocks be good and employment be bad . The economy is not necessarily good its delivering but with the employment weaker and the macromanufacturing come out and continue to amaze and the Mortgage Application number this morning that is strong. If you get russia off the business
Monitoring wall street after last weeks roller coaster ride for stocks. We will get to those stories in just a moment. First, lets get you right to the top story that we are following. Ibm shares plunged the most in the most in four years, struggling to transform fast enough to handle the shifted cloud computing. An earningsd forecast for 2014 and said it will provide an update on its projections in january. Ditching a fiveyear plan to boost profit. The shares tumbled by dragging down the value of the stake held ibms biggestett, shareholder. Earlier, ibm announced an globalnt to pay foundries 1. 5 billion to take over the chip manufacturing division. The deal is part of the ceos efforts to prioritize. Apple reports earnings after the bell as the Company Enters the mobile payment arena. Apple pay allows shoppers to buy products in stores using their iphones. The company has signed a banks and credit card issuers such as mastercard and visa. The new service will compete against paypal an