Next, Technology Journalist and robert recount on the use of designing technology to increase usage in the book user friendly. The hello, friends. You only have to deal with me for about two minutes. I am the cofounder of postflig postflight, the place where you are right now, the company that builds software and all kinds of stuff. Beautiful website at postlight. Com. [inaudible] he asks me why im late on delivering the book and since they are so relevant to what we do here so you are seeing guilt and shame in front of you. [laughter] but with the talk of it about who is here. So, cliff kuang is an awardwinning journalist and designer. This is cliffs right here. He was previously the head of companies as was the defining editor. He worked in the u. S. For a company he is very much a practitioner and leader and writer and communicator speak up [inaudible] one of the leading cofounders so theyve written a book called userfriendly and it talks abo about. Its made people less powerful and
To normal in a province once the epicenter of the virus in china. Will also be looking at how the social Media Movement called care mongering is helping Vulnerable People cope with the crisis wherever they are. And its for chinas top Football League is aiming for a quick return to action the teams are now back in training hoping to kick off the season in may. So another surge in the number of people who have died from coronavirus in europe as the continent struggles to contain the outbreak spain 832 people have died there in just 24 hours it brings the total number of the dead to nearly 5700 since the outbreak began italy also really struggling to control things on friday it recorded the highest death toll of any single day anywhere in the world it was 909. 00 teen deaths as a result of covered 19 in 24 hours and theres also a 21. 00 day government lockdown which is affecting lives of hundreds of thousands of market workers in india a Public Transport Service is suspended leaving milli
Evening. Men and women in uniform of freedom around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [cheering] i pledge of 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. [cheering] thank you, please be seated. [applause] before we get started, theres a few people i would like to recognize in the audience this evening. Ill start with mayor keith and his wife, shelby. [applause] former congressman, alton and his wife, janet. [applause] [applause] i know he supposed to be with pat, where is pat . Areas. [cheering and applauding] we have an evening in store for you. Before i introduce our special guest who will introduce our speaker tonight, i want to take a moment to also think a handful of other people we have in our audience this evening. They are representing some of americas finest. For those of you who might have arrived late, at past sunset, you migh
Now on bbc news after social media suspended donald trump, some have questioned the power of the Silicon Valley giants. Has big tech gone too far, or is it long overdue . Hello and welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi. Many of us all over the world rely on social media for information, communication and entertainment, but the reach and power of Big Tech Companies is worrying many. Their decision to ban donald trump and decide what can and cant be said on their platforms has reignited the debate about Freedom Of Speech and whether we need new laws to regulate the tech giants. Thats global questions social media, is it more powerful than governments . Well, to bring you this edition of global questions, as always, our questioners and our two panellistsjoin us via video link. So let me tell you who is in the hot seat this week giving the answers. Kara swisher has been described by newsweek as Silicon Valleys most powerful technology journalist. Shes been covering the Tech In
His new book equality in american dilemma 1866 to 1896. Unleashed by the civil war. You do not need to take my word for how wonderful it is. Equality is deeply researched. The struggle to define the meaning of equality in post civil war america. It is filled with fresh insight into the social movements that took precedent during the region. The inequalities that continue to shape our social and political landscape. Please join me in welcoming charles postal. Postel. You get to meet the author which is one of the reasons to come to an event like this but the person the purpose was where the author was coming from in that sense history books really talk about the past at all. There really about their present in the context in which the book was written written. I may make no secret im transparent on this. It was written after the financial crisis of 20072008. It was written in a context of occupy wall street a questions about the deep economic inequality in the United States. It was writ