Now on bbc news, click. This week, its the 50th birthday of the internet. We will hear how it was switched on, how democracy could be rebooted, and how hard it is to tell apples from. Apples. Every single day, we upload four million hours of video to youtube. We send 682 million tweets. We post over 67 million instagram pictures. 4. 4 billion of us use the internet and collectively, we create 2. 5 exa bytes, thats 2. 5 million tb or 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data every single day. And a significant proportion of all of that data searches, news, messages, social media, video streaming, goes through here. All this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone. Its one of four buildings here in london full of computers, cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. The internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly 50 years ago this week. The work had origins in 1969 when the American Defense department, specifically the Defense A
Previous generations were the 20s and 30s, largely because of Mental Health issues. Theaid that in remarks at Detroit Economic Club about the future of health care, Prescription Drug costs, and medical innovation. Thank you, steve. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to our d. C. Members and our guests. It is wonderful to be here at club, anit Economic Organization that has long attracted some of the nations most distinguished thinkers and innovators. To introducer todays participants, who will engage us in a captivating discussion about the future of health care. I begin by introducing our guest speaker, someone i have known for many years and consider him a mentor and a friend. President ta is the and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield association, a National Federation that supports 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies, including Blue Cross Blue Shield michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system, through its federation of insurers, co
Guest speaker, someone i have known for many years and consider a mentor and friend. Is the president the Blue Cross Blue Shield association, a National Federation that supports Blue Cross Blue Shield companies, including Blue Cross Shield michigan. The system, through its federation of insurers covers one out of every three americans. I think that it is a very important statistic. It is something nobody else does. It serves every zip code in the united states, meaning in every zip code in america, someone has a blue cross card. It is one of the most trusted brands in Health Care Conversations on health care and his involved inconversations on health care and health care reform, so everyone has access to quality, Affordable Health care. Scott has devoted his career to improving the health of all americans. Through parts of that identify Health Issues and challenges and provide insights to improve the quad of care across america. Scott was named president and ceo of bcbsa after serving
This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitter, and platforms like instagram and twitter have ch
With us and brew Group Investment banker and nfl star jack brewer great to see you this morning. Thank you so much for swroining us here we are looking at futures which are lower this morning going into another week. This is an important week because were going to begin Third Quarter earnings give us a window into the economy and corporates dow and s p 500 trying to snap a threeweek losing streak, with all eye on the china trade meetings this week on thursday. The two sides expected to resume the negotiation thursday. Beijing reportedly ready to talk about a narrow focus deal. Narrower than weve been talking about with full scale reform of stroll sector off the table whats your deal given the fact that president has been adamant about industrial issues and the behavior of china particularly with the intellectual property . Market clearsly not liking it maria. I mean listen the pressure is on certainly hong kong is not getting any better an chinese economy isnt getting any better our ec