Controversial cryptocurrency. We have details. And whistleblower speaks. Christopher wylie from the Cambridge Analytica scandal joins me. Highlevel trade talks picked up this week in washington after tapering off in july with no clear breakthroughs. Chinas vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade representative Robert Lighthizer before talks resumed thursday. The stakes were extremely high as President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on 215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. The Technology Sector paying close attention to those sessions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. I spoke to someone from a firm who helps u. S. Firms protect intellectual property. Eric a fairly Large Company in china, just saw 100 million in revenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients that have previously mostly been in china and is now expanding into the u. S. Thats what we are
Dozens of people are involved in the search, but bad weather is reported to be hampering their efforts. It happened in the far north of iran, near the city of tabriz, close to the border with azerbaijan. President raisi, seen here on the left, had been visiting a dam project. This is thought to be footage of him earlier in the day, travelling in a convoy of three helicopters. First reports that something had gone wrong were announced on state tv. Translation there are unconfirmed reports of an incident involving the helicopter carrying the president in thejolfa region. Initial reports cite a hard landing for the helicopter carrying the president. President raisi, considered a hardliner, is the second most powerfulfigure in iran and has been regarded as a possible successor to the Supreme Leader, ali khamenei. There is no word yet on any casualties today, but across iran, there have been prayers for the president s safety. That report from jon donnison. As we heard, president raisi was
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Senate on cspan2. Were also streaming live online at cspan. Org and on the free cspan radio app. And welcome to las vegas. This is the communicators on cspan. We are on location for the next couple of weeks. Were at the ces, the Consumer Electronics show. Its one of the largest trade shows in america, and were going to show you some of the interviews we did with tech leaders and some of the latest technology. This is the communicators on cspan. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] host gary shapiro, this years ces, what are some of the buzz products . Guest well, ces 2018 is pretty big, and products, you know, theres a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence in many different ways. So we have the smart speakers which, you know, alexa and google home. Obviously, googles huge here, but were talking about other products into the home and the car. Were also talking about Artificial Intelligence in another way, and that is smart cities. We have a big focus on smart cities for the f
Host gary shapiro, this years ces, what are some of the buzz products . Gary well, ces 2018 is pretty big, and products, you know, theres a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence in many different ways. So, we have the smart speakers which, you know, alexa and google home. Obviously, googles huge here, but were talking about other products into the home and the car. Were also talking about Artificial Intelligence in another way, and that is smart cities. We have a big focus on smart cities for the first time. We have the secretary of transportation here talking about it and a lot of different groups focusing on it. And thats not about the to assume her is, in a sense, for business and government. It is business to those investing and making our lives and cities better because twothirds of the population will live in cities soon compared to onethird in 1960. Other big things, of course, is we continue that Movement Toward selfdriving cars. We know were getting there, theres more and mo