The tv industry suffers its steepest drop in ad sales since 2009. What that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger took shape in a courtroom on monday. The combination of 13 states and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. With the latest, jennifer was in the courtroom. Day one, what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read enough in the pretrial memoranda, lets go straight to the witnesses. That was a big surprise, particularly for the lawyers who spent a lot of time preparing those. The judge is really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We got right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. They were better than i thought they would be for the companies. There were some bad documents introduced with the first witne
Docusign makes the glass door lift. We will talk to the doc you sign ceo about what makes the company so unique. Automation, transportation, the self driving semi makes its valley islicon listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of a Bloomberg Businessweek indepth piece about how the Smart Speaker left users vulnerable to their conversations being transcribed. It was one of their most read stories on the terminal wednesday. I spoke to bloomberg journalists about the story, including the devices, and use of contractors to transcribe intimate conversations. Lets hear from austin carr in new york. We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors. Everywhere from ireland to india. They had ethical quandaries with the service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of siri alexa customers in order to improve the systems speech recognition by transcribing recordings we submit to the cloud. The fascinating thing was the profound disparity you mentioned. Contractors felt it was eth
Technology anymore to make a television . Guest yes. Well, most televisions right now are computers. I mean, there are tvs in this booth that are ten cores processers, and all the integrated functionality for the web, streaming stuff. 4k is a huge thing, so those are the big buzzword 4g and old sets. Host i see behind us it says 8k. Guest yeah, were already beyond 4k now. These are basically, prototypes. Theres one sharp tv of thats coming out thats going to be simulated 8k, but what were talking about is stepped up in resolution. You think about it as the jump from standard testify in addition to High Definition this is four times the resolution of High Definition. So its Crystal Clear, its sort of the next wave, and this is the first year more and more people might start buying 4k tvs. Host mr. Moynihan, a couple of years ago 3d tv was the big talk. Guest yeah. Host but that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere. Guest it did not. A lot of 3d tvs were sold because most tvs have 3d featur
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man was under the influence. there is a job right there, coaxing down the naked guy. okay, well television manufacturers are trying to cash in on the growing popularity of 3-d movies in theaters. sony recently unveiled its line of 3-d tvs in tokyo. joining me live here, caroline mccar thuccarthy, a reporter fo cnet.com. is this the new hot thing? apparently it is. panasonic has this exclusive 3-d tv deal with best buy. on the shelves for one week, these 50-inch, first shipment shoe sold out. a recession? where is that? so you get a 3-d tv, but can you watch things in 3-d at this point? well, yes. march 24th, next week, the first u.s. sports game broadcast in 3-d will be on the msg channel,