23time nhl allstar and is considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time. Gordie howe was 88 years old. Louisville, kentucky is saying a final goodbye to his favorite son today. The world watched the body of boxing legend muhammad ali carry through the roads of his hometown in a funeral service. The private Graveside Service was held later for the heavyweight champion. An Interfaith Memorial Service took place at a sports arena packed with celebrities, comedians, athletes, politicians, and fans of the man simply known as the greatest. He was 74 years old. Global news 24 hours a day powered by 2400 journalists in , more than 150 news bureaus around the world. Bloomberg west is next. Emily i am emily chang. This is bloomberg west. Coming up, the power shift. Apple puts qualcomm chips on hold for intel. We will discuss what it means for the three tech titans. Gawker tagged out. The website has enforced into has been forced into bankruptcy, it appears. We will have full details. And a tech forecaster says a car will soon be the smartest thing you own. We will reimagine the future of your commute later this hour. First to our lead. Days before apples annual developers conference, the iphone maker announces a major change amongst suppliers. The next iphones will use modems from intel, replacing qualcomm chips. Shares of intel popped slightly on the news, while qualcomm closed down 2 . Chose modem chips for the and some otherrk version of the smartphone for overseas markets. Iphones on the Verizon Network will stick with qualcomm cards. This is three days before the developer conference. What upgrades and announcements can we expect, and will they reinvigorate iphone sales . Joining me are ian king and alex webb and a Senior TechnologyResearch Analyst with drexel hamilton. Ian, why did apple pick intel . Ian they have not really announced it yet. It is more our reporting, our sources telling us that. The conjecture is if you are apple, you have one supplier, no good for price negotiations. If you are just reliant upon one supplier, so why wouldnt you put yourself in a stronger position . Emily what are the numbers here . How much new business is this for intel question mark bad is for intel . And how bad is it for qualcomm . Alex i think it is going to be a sizable order. There are numbers thrown around, but it is a big part of business for intel. At the moment, they are not really in this business in a sizable way. Emily what do you make of this change . I think it is exactly what r guests have spoken about and that is about diversifying the supply base. If you have an opportunity to do that and intel can meet the specs, you should do it. It will help pricing and keep suppliers honest. It makes a lot of sense. What i have heard is it sounds like it is more at t, Something Like 20 million units. Emily ian, are the risks to are there risks to putting new chips and a phone when you have so much pressure to perform . Ian some of brians counterparts elsewhere have said qualcomm is still miles ahead of intel in terms of performance of its parts, so by going with what is, in theory, not the best part you could have out there, apple is taking a risk. However, i mean, apple is not going to put a part out there that has not been tested. And the net Weight Network operators, as well. Any phone has to go through a convoluted testing process. It is hard to imagine that we will see a phone that is not any good any time soon. Emily what are we expecting . Ian wwdc is really present where they present software, not hardware, but given a slowdown in iphone sales, it puts increasing emphasis on the software space. Apple is trying to present things that tie people more closely to the product. See a rebound of apple music. And we will see a developer kit for siri. It might let you or me order a pizza or taxi through siri. Brian, talk about siri. We have google home announced. Amazon has amazon echo and alexa. How important is a new siri . Brian it is very important. If you can have a siri interact with thirdparty apps and one that is more contextually aware when you ask it a question, i think it opens up a longerterm vision. I see apple getting involved in personal robots. We just got back from compute chs. Hearing about a personal robot being announced for 599. I think apple has an interest in robots, and i think siri would be the personality and voice behind that. Emily you did a big piece on apple music and about the changes coming, fairly dramatic changes you did a piece on apple music. What does apple do to get more users . Ian make it easier to use. There will be big changes to the user interface is what we are hearing. A bit easier to navigate the huge database of music apple has. It is important for apple to fight off things like spotify and pandora. Emily brian, when it comes to selling were software, what does apple need to prove at wwdc . Brian these events give you a little bit of a hint of what could be coming out in the next 12 to 18 months, but more importantly, it builds an ecosystem for the future. Something around apple pay. There has been discussion around peertopeer payments and around being able to use apple pay on websites, about apple music and making it easier, and as we talked about, siri. Software is important, and it is what steve jobs called the soul of apple products. Increasingly it is the differentiator for apple products to their competitors do not have hardware and software working together. They have hardware and rely on android for the software. That is how they continue to differentiate. Emily and this is gearing up to iphone 7, right . We assume there will be another release in the fall. As far as we know, it will be incremental as first changes to the hardware. Ian that is what the indicators are. It was reported recently, big changes in next years product. That applies that this years product will not be such a blockbuster. But there is some changes, perhaps better integration for force touch and that will be , tied more closely the phones which use that come a making it more compelling. Emily alex webb, ian king, and brian white, thank you we will thank you all. And we of course will be live at wwdc on monday. Now the latest in the ongoing yahoo saga. We know that the quicken loans to other dan gilbert and at t at each bid about 5 billion for yahoo s core business patents and real estate assets. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Verizon has offered between three and a half dollars that 3. 5 billion and 4 billion, but verizon is said to be interested in also buying yahoo s other assets, but have been told the company wishes to sell them separately. Verizon will have a chance to match or top any offer. We know the private equity firm tpg is still involved in bidding and yahoo has received more than 10 bids. We will bring the latest as details emerge. Another story were watching, the most popular mobile messaging service in japan hopes to raise 1 billion in ipo next month, putting them on track to become the years biggest market debut for a tech company. They will sell shares and u. S. In the u. S. And japan at a valuation of about 5. 5 billion. Coming up, a big win for hulk hogan and his legal nemesis gawker is filing for bankruptcy. But it is not necessarily the end of the line for the empire. We will discuss. Emily the Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just closed another monster fund. They announced it raise 1. 5 billion for a fund that will go towards a combo of early and middle stage investments. This is two years after posting another 1. 5 billion fund. This will be used to back disruptive software companies. Have hulk hogan and peter thiel won their war with dr. Media . With gawker media . The site posted a sex tape of hulk hogan online. Gawker entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with the company for about 100 million. Other bidders can still offer a higher price, and as that will be sold in a Bankruptcy Court supervised auction. Journey to discuss, mark grossman, an attorney, and also l. A. , the chairman of a company who is suing gawker for defamation. Thank you for joining us. So, they have thou they will continue operations. Bankruptcy gives them certain protections. How devastating is the bankruptcy filing for the company . The filingt think is devastating. The bankruptcy filing is part of a very complex legal strategy to try to survive the Florida Court judgment. Emily shiva, what is your reaction as someone who is suing gawker . I think it is actually a big win for journalism and what should be good journalism. Anyone graduating Journalism College now has a clear choice if they want to do copywriting for click baiting or if they want to be real journalists. I am extremely happy. Obviously, our lawsuit was instrumental for gawker to take this strategy to try to protect themselves. Emily i was thinking, with some people who have rallied to peter thiels site, including a couple of Venture Capitalists who gawker has written negative things about, venture founder of sun microsystems, i said, if you support peter thiel in this lawsuit or backing lawsuits against gawker, where do you draw the line against freedom of when it comes to freedom of the press . Take a look at what he has to say. The issue of what the press is is very ambiguous now. Is a bloomberg journalist the same as a hustler magazine journalist . What is the line . To me, there are two things that matter. Anything that goes without checks and balances is going to go out. Out of kilter. And to a nick denton, i say he needs checks and balances. If a lawsuit supports that, if the facts were not in favor of hulk hogan, peter thiel would be irrelevant. His lawsuits would be irrelevant. Denton, gawker and nick did something to hulk hogan. They created a legal case. Its important to use the law for checks and balances. Emily mark, i wonder how you respond to this idea. Since gawker is not a traditional sort of publication, so do they get the same sort of First Amendment rights . Mark the First Amendment does not distinguish between types of media. Gawker is the equivalent of the New York Times for the purpose of the First Amendment. At the other end, you have political speech and you have commercial speech closer to less protection. And you have sex tapes somewhere in between. This is a sex tape case. Lets understand what were talking about. While i am not an advocate of while i am certainly a tremendous advocate of protection for political speech less of an advocate for speech , for things like cigarette commercials, i am less of an advocate when it pertains to sex tapes, but it is a type of speech issue, not the nature of the media outlet that matters. Emily does the bankruptcy affect your case at all . Where does your case go from here . It is part of, the legal process. But i would like to comment on some thing that was said in that interview. This is part of checks and balances. The click baiting model got out of hand. What you have is now the public, as the Florida Court ruling, the public said we are going to allow this kind of journalism. Nick denton claims he would like to do dialogue. I would like to put a challenge to him. I know peter did not want to debate him, but i am willing to debate nick openly and publicly. Ifact larry flynt could , probably be the moderator of that debate. He is a lot more integrity, and he is a pornagrapher and has pornographer and has stood for First Amendment rights. Nick denton can debate on whether i am a fraud or whatever, but we should have the dialogue. There needs to be these checks and balances where people, the public, can modulate the framework or freedom of press and privacy. That is the opportunity we have here and to really bring about good journalism. As the lawyer said, yes, on some theoretical framework, the New York Times and gawker are on the same level playing field. The public has shown certain times of journalism are not going to be governed by the broad array of First Amendment protections, that they are going to be modulated, and checks and balances are very important. If nick denton wants to debate, i am here to debate him. Emily we will make sure to send him a message. Mark, how will cases like shivas and the multiple lawsuits against gawker, how do those impact the company now that they have filed for bankruptcy . Does anything change . Mark the reality is, the judgment of the Florida Court is probably larger than the assets of gawker. In terms of money at risk, the money is gone. The assets are gone. Those who own the company will probably get nothing out of their investment. As far as further lawsuits, it is kind of like, pile them on. But the lawsuits are stayed, because once the bankruptcy action is filed, everything stops. It is an automatic stay. For any lawsuit to proceed, they would require the Bankruptcy Courts permission. Emily all right. Marc grossman, shiva, thank you both so much for joining us. This is a story we will continue to follow. Coming up, a ground making the a groundbreaking, but seriously Controversial Technology gets a green light from the highest Scientific Panel advising the u. S. Government. We will explain what it is and how it might change humanity later this hour. Emily a revolutionary but Controversial Technology known as gene drive got a green light from the u. S. Government advisory group. After a yearlong study of risks and potential benefits, the panel okd continued research. It gives humans the power to alter and even eliminate entire populations of organisms in the wild. It is being pushed for use against zika virus carrying mosquitoes, for example. In this edition of sooner than tom randall explains how this works and why it is a hot button issue. Tom there is a special mosquito in california that is carrying a genetic weapon that could wipe out one of the worlds was worlds most deadly diseases, malaria, which kills half a Million People every year. All that suffering might end if we just open the window and let this creature out, but will we do it . The mosquito is one project of thousands for a new gene editing tool called crispr that is absolutely transforming biological science. It is only four years old, but in preliminary experiments, it has been used to eliminate hiv, reverse mutations that cause blindness, and stopping cancer. It could one day be used to reverse human aging. More than 1 billion has been invested, and its really is just the beginning. Crispr works like a pair of dna scissors. Geneticist program at piece of writech like they would Software Code and that guides this is to a location on the genome. Snip, snip, out goes unwanted genes. The breaks in the double helix heal automatically. This is making the Science Fiction of a decade ago same obliquely plausible today. Crispr shortens genetic Engineering Works from years two weeks. And it reduces the cost for more than 5,000 before crispr to 50. Person with a background in genetics can learn the basics in a day were to do. The genome is like a dry erase board that anyone can scribble on. Consider our mosquito. Scientists have successfully used crispr to delivers on the game makes mosquitoes immune to the malaria parasites i cannot that cannot be spread to humans. But the problem, how to get it to spread to the entire population of mosquitoes . Genetic changes are usually only inherited by half of offspring and a quarter of those offsprings offspring. Last year, scientists unveiled another breakthrough, a gene drive the pushes the genetic changes to almost 100 of offspring. Quicklyes reproduce so it could go through an entire , population of mosquitoes in a single season. Boom, no more malaria. The gene drive is a perfect yet, is not perfect yet, but it is getting there. The biggest question is no longer about the science of what is possible but what is advisable. Are we really ready to take over the blueprint of life on earth . There is not much time for debate. Soon, some of the first human trials, we used therapies to treat genetic diseases here at a diseases. A farm in North Carolina is preparing to raise crispr pigs. Dupont is field testing new versions of wheat and corn and by 2020, all sorts of different fruits, vegetables, and even meats will start showing up in your grocery store. Crispr is the key to unlocking bioengineering, for better and maybe for worse. An International Summit of scientists met in washington in december to agree on basic limits in ethical research. Regarding human embryos, they decided research should continue but the human genome and of the should not be altered in ways that could be passed to future generations, at least not yet. Right now, the field is fraught with some pretty freaky science and ethical conundrums. The human species truly must tread carefully, but with the promise that crispr offers, it may come to a point where it is unethical to keep the window closed on some of this technology. That time may be coming sooner than you think. Emily tom randall reporting there. Coming up, one day your car may be the most sophisticated computer you own. That is one of the bold calls from mary meekers internet trends report. We will focus on the future of car tech, next. Do not forget to watch this weekend. We will bring you all our best interviews from the week, including indepth conversation with the Outgoing Stanford University president. The best of bloomberg west this weekend. Mark i am mark crumpton. You are watching bloomberg west. Hillary clinton addressed a planned parenthood event in washington friday, linking abortion rights and Birth Control to National Economic growth. She used the platform to deliver scathing remarks directed at donald t