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for the 2018 legislative agenda. in jerusalem, plans are underway for a new train station next to the western wall, and it could be named for president trump. israel transportation minister says the move will be a thank you to president trump for recognizing jerusalem as israel s capital. former president obama and hillary clinton remained the most admired men and women among americans. mr. obama beat out the current president 17% to 14%. pope francis rounds out the top three. hillary clinton is on top of the women s list for the 16th straight year, edging former first lady michelle obama. the current first lady, melania trump, garnered 1% of the vote. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. cory: this is bloomberg technology. coming up, big tech, big success in 2017. the headwinds in the coming year. we will discuss. among the top cryptocurrencies of the year, it is breaking out from bitcoin. the c ....
editor in chief of bloomberg businessweek, megan murphy. let s start with politics. one of the most gender-neutral equal societies, and they are having a me too movement. they are definitely having a #metoo moments. this is something that is really interesting. it is still focused on individuals and bad behavior, outrage, anger. sweden is one of the most gender-neutral equal countries and almost a much smaller gap in labor force, a 4.5% wage gap. but really focused on policies. and not focused so much on shame of individuals but how can we use this moment to implement policies, which have proven successful? but really looking at using criminal penalties for sex abuse, education, really meaningful real-world change. in america, sometimes we re not as good as taking these moments of outrage and connecting them to do anything with it for change. that is what we have seen in sweden. julia: what is fascinating to me about this, there seems to be far more protections for ....
lowered iphone x shipment projections for the next quarter. sales have declined. the iphone s high price and a lack of groundbreaking innovations. we talked to bloomberg technology s alex webb. alex the iphone x was released : six weeks after the iphone 8. there was a fear if they got too close to samsung s high-end smartphone. cory: competition is another part of this? alex: exactly. particularly in china, a lot of the local manufacturers are coming out with products that have very similar features. nobody quite yet has the face identification or the sensor that the iphone has. some of these analysts were writing earlier today, that has not been enough. cory: a big part of the apple isategy of the phones drumming up the marketplace with potentially new applications that we have not seen. the phone could do really cool face recognition stuff. it has interesting features that other phones did not have, but there are not really any uses for them yet. alex: apple is very s ....
you were 12 years old. you moved to tennessee. tell me about what must have been culture shock in that moment. kai-fu: i did not speak a word of english, but the people were extremely friendly, that southern hospitality. i immediately made a lot of friends. in class i was totally lost. they were teaching in front and i was reading my chinese books. emily: somehow you caught up because you went to columbia, got your phd at carnegie mellon. you were working on speech recognition, of all things, which now four decades later is the forefront of new technology. kai-fu: also artificial intelligence, machine learning. it was an exciting age when there is so much unknown and so much naive optimism, but it is gratifying to see finally all of that coming to the real world. emily: you joined apple in 1990. how closely did you work with steve jobs? kai-fu: i always say i was there between jobs. my tenure at apple, i joined as he left, and after i left, he came back. we did have som ....