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Bad sins as we highlight the few uplifting stories that got buried behind all the bad starting with the 10th anniversary of the world giving index based on gallup starting with the 10th anniversary of the world giving index based on gallup surveys and compiled by the Charities Aid foundation the world giving index rates by percentage surveys and compiled by the Charities Aid foundation the world giving index rates by percentage the generosity of all those folks living on this small blue planet t...

A minute like you seeing each country and then they broke and i like seeing like how it all played out to them and you like you seeing each country in them they broke a barrel theres 3 different 3 different categories for each country very far as were yeah and when theres 3 different 3 different categories for each country has varied forms where yeah and just so so you know the folks at home know exactly how this whole thing came about one of them was just so so you know the folks at home know e...

Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla here is jon fortt. Morgan brennan is at the International Astronautical congress more from morgan and amazons jeff bezos in a moment well begin with Wework Softbank plans to take control of that company valuing it between 7. 5 billion and 8 billion. A huge drop from where it was valued, also cutting adam newmans stake down to double digits good morning to our guests good morning. Mike, i know that youre f m familiar with softbank...

And youre in the stream whats the danger of facial Recognition Technology Civil Liberties groups say privacy shouldnt trump protection but government and police argue the tack ensure safety what do you think will doing today will look at how major cities are taking very different approaches to facial recognition and explore how the Chinese Government is using this technology to track citizens but 1st how does facial recognition even work check out this clip from a documentary i filed for a. J. P...

Massive that urge to keep swiping through twitter feed thats designed to over the way we all click i agree to the terms and conditions thats designed to avoid sweating left or right on jindo and thats designed to own we live in an online world of someone elses making oh and most of us never even give it a 2nd photo and actually thats design is were over. San francisco its the mecca for tech designers Silicon Valley this place pioneered the art of constructing optimizing and enhancing a lot of th...

Been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not ...

The tricks and tactics of addiction a persuasive design many tech designers openly admit using insights from behavioral scientists of the early 20th century but the concept of randomly scheduled rules studied in developed by american cycle of just b. F. Skinner in the 1950 s. He created whats become known as the skin of books a simple contraption he used to study pigeons and even raccoons at the start of the process a pigeon is given a food every time it picks the would pick or turns a full circ...

Off the job at 31. 00 Assembly Lines across the country theyre frightened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached. And the United Nations is warning that Rohingya Muslims who remain in myanmar are living under the threat of genocide the un is repeating calls for top generals to face trial for forcing iran 3 quarters of a 1000000 to flee to bangladesh 2 years ago the un also says it has serious concerns about a crackdown on refugee camps in bangladesh it says aid workers accused of suppor...

James bays has more on this now from new york normally this monthly meeting deals with the grim reality of life inside yemen but it was overtaken by events on the other side of the saudi border one thing we can be certain and that is this extremely serious incident like the traditions of a regional conflict. And the report more that much. With yemen in some way or. None of that. Is good for you. And this is so far in just his 2nd appearance in the Security Council the new u. S. Ambassador made i...

San francisco its the mecca for tech designers Silicon Valley this place pioneered the art of constructing optimizing and enhancing a lot of the technology we use every day its turbo charge the speed at which we use the internet and made navigating the way more ensuring but its also given us a full sense of security. But. Ive lost count of the number of times ive clicked i agree to get into a website we all have to do it as we speed around the internet we face hundreds of these annoying pop ups ...