paul: alicia. this is a hit to american innovation. computer engineers and comedies this week introduced new innovations including a robotic laundry folder just what every girl wants. [laughter] on the other hand, they also introduced a robotic dog which cannot [inaudible]. paul: dan. i give it to the tax portability 17. the payoff just keeps coming, paul. this week the list includes walmart which will raise the minimum wage to $11 and give up to a thousand dollars bonus to all of its employees in in addition, two utilities, if you completed, utilities will cut rates to the customers. first the arizona power service in arizona and a big utility and elizabeth warren states ever source, will cut its rates, as well. keep this in mind, this is a bill for which no democrat voted. paul: remember, if you have your
law, named for gordon moore. one of the engineers who worked at intel. the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can basically double the computing power of a computing chip every 18 months or so. power exple.what really made the every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. you could get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. you had smaller which led to faster which led to cheaper. under any other field of consumer products things get more expensive over time, houses, refrigerators, milk. but not technology. one of the striking things about the development of hardware during the 1980s was the fact that it was getting so much powerful so rapidly that there developed a strong tendency on people who were go to buy a computer, should i buy a computer today? no, if i wait six months i can get twice the computer. the reason we are attracted,
girl can t do it on her own, and it s wrong. reporter: the book sells for $4.99 on amazon and has lots of negative comments attached like please, please do not buy this book. we reached out to mattel the makers of barbie for comment, but no response. in san rafael, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. maybe mattel will rewrite the book. what is the correct rewrite? that two women come in and save the day and that more women should be computer engineers. and there shouldn t be a guy in the book at all? because i love my barbies. i never like to see them in a bad place. somebody s tone deaf. didn t think. i think the woman said it right. sometimes barbie can be behind the times. barbie has been around a long, long time. sometimes barbie needs to be updated for the times. i like when i go to the apple store and it s women helping me behind the counter. that s the news for this half hour.
built for business. computers that can think for themselvess. the holy grail of computer engineers and now a super computer is passing the famous 64-year-old test convincing judges it is a human being. lance is here from editor at large of national review. let s do the who, what, when and where first? what did the computer do that they thought it was a 20 year-old kid. it was said by the year 2000
discouraged. so use this as your opportunity. holiday parties. you re going to be sitting there meeting friends, family, co-workers from the past. this is a great opportunity to network. make connections. put the word out that you re looking for that opportunity. this is the time of year to make those kinds of connections. one of the things we should talk about real quickly is the fact there are a lot of jobs out there, but employers can t find the people who are qualified to take on those jobs. so what should we be doing? workforce development? that s one of the things i think we don t do well in this country. i believe europe does a better job. so we always hear about the computer engineers. that s not really my kind of thing, right? but welders. we don t have enough welders in this country. we don t have enough electricians. enough plumbers. the real kind of hands-on work, we don t have enough people trained to do those kinds of jobs. so we need to do a better job of retraining