epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. they re difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, it s believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. how do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola? it s a very hard thing to do. so we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. they bite everything from animals from amphibians and reptiles all the way up to humans and chickens. host: so why would microsoft be working on a project like that? guest: well, when we think about machine learning, when we think about robotics, one of the things we want to understand is what how is it going to be useful. and disease epidemics are an example where we know getting the right data is incredibly challenging, analyzing the data is incredibly challenging, so we believe there are some important inflection points. h
apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putin s strength. today, however, the american president seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against western civilisation. during a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. with the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnightâs diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring the american president s apocalyptic warning. it s the president s second visit to europe and today s speech was billed as a big foreign policy moment. given in warsaw s krasinski square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. it fell to the first lady to do the warm up. the president of the united states, donald] trump. and with that, trump se
it is, after all, just two days, but a year in which stocks have been rarer than two days without a gop presidential debate, investors will take it. the s&p 500 and nasdaq are up about 5%. the rally is broad and it seems to be sticking and it even happened add oil prices fell. that s a require disconnect this year. today the dow jones rose 222 points to 16,196. nasdaq gained more than 2% or 98 points and the s&p 500 rose 30. two of this year s most battered sectors, finance and technology le the way today. bob led the report on why the bulls are in charge for now. reporter: the markets are putting together one of the few multi-day rallies. it s the best two-day rally since august of last year. what s change? it s high level talking. first the russia-saudi talk of a freeze in oil production. these are the two biggest producers in the world agreeing something is wrong. even though oil is down, more than 60% of the energy sector was up. secondly, there s concern about weak gro
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