And coming up look at the sport with gavin. We are awaiting an update on the condition of chris froome the time time Tour De France champion badly injured after a crash in france, more on the story and what it means for him and his team later on. Thanks gavin. Good weather for that duck . Yes, another day with heavy rain in june. Further localised flooding today with whether staying on the rubbish side as we head into the weekend. Well also look further afield in india for we are watching carefully for the arrival of a cyclone about to hit the north west of the country. Also coming up, the critically endangered bermuda snails released into the wild with the help of the british zoo. Boris johnson has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the conservative leadership election to determine the next Prime Minister, with more than a third of the votes cast by tory mps in the first ballot of the contest. The field of ten conservative mps has been narrowed to seven with the former cabinet minist
Artificial intelligence was flush with money and confidence about what it could achieve. But there were competing ideas about how i would lead the way to this brave new world. From the very 1st day there were 2 big approaches one of them was were going to figure out the rules and were going to teach the rules to the machine right were going to say this is how you do this 1st do this 1st do that 1st of that so the 1st one is the socalled expert systems where you just codified old rules you can and say go for it the 2nd one was were going to show it things were going to feed it data and its going to learn from the data you feed it the data and expected to build what people call a Neural Network which is that it looks at the data and the results and says ha this this this goes together and then does it again and does it again and till it builds almost like a brain like structure. What happened was a book was published actually Marvin Minsky one of his colleagues that basically showed that
[background noises] the Senate Caucus on narcotics control welcome to order. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to think secretary pompeo for being here today as well as members of the caucus. This is the first time weve had cabinet member address the drug caucus and theyve given the circumstances, we find ourselves in. This makes it especially appropriate from the nations top diplomat. The rising aquatics epidemic is inflicting the highest rate of casualties in our nations history. America alone in 2017 ordered 17000 people died of drug overdoses. 2006 mexico seen 1,150,000 people murdered in the course of the Cartel Violence associated with the market share and real estate and comes to the International Drug trade. Reflecting on those numbers, it bring me think about other efforts we undertake. Only the threat of terrorism emanating from afghanistan, the war in iraq and the idea that we would somehow lose 70000 americans in one year alone to drug overdoses is not consider this a matter
Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. The honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the Clinton Administration and as deputy secretary of state for management and resources i welcome secretary lew. Peter baker who
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director talked about Financial Systems and Digital Currency including the evolution of Digital Payment systems, control over the flow of money, ecommerce and data privacy. From the Brookings Institution this is 40 minutes. If everyone could take their seats we are going to keep the program rolling. That was a lively and fantastic first panel that covered the credit card reward points to crypto currency to real life what do you do when you need to access your money and its really the focal point of the next speaker. That itself is a massive accomplishment in washington that i think is often underappreciated. Time in government is finite. To effectuate a change is a metric to service by but i can think a few peoplele that are as skillful and impactful in their career and effectuating change before becoming the director who was confirmed unanimously to be a commissioner of the federal trade commission. Weve had a Big Conversation talking about back of