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Dec 3, 2014 1 minute read

Meet Your New Security Guard: A 300-Pound Robot

William Santana Li, chairman and CEO of Knightscope, and Stacy Stephens, vice president of marketing and sales, explain how the company's K5 autonomous robot security guards work. They speak with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."

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Sep 29, 2014 1 minute read

California's Drilling Frenzy Has Nothing to Do With Oil

82 percent of California is experiencing extreme drought and farmers in California's Central Valley are looking for water elsewhere- underground. Well drilling for groundwater in the state has doubled and even tripled in some counties. Bloomberg heads to a dairy farm to learn more about the drilling boom.

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Sep 19, 2014 1 minute read

Alibaba IPO: Just How Big Is China's E-Commerce Growth?

Alibaba is now the world's largest ever IPO and now that it's public, it means the Company is now bigger than the majority of companies in the world. But just how big is China's e-commcer growth? Bloomberg’s Mia Saini reports on the Chinese story in Alibaba’s IPO.

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Sep 16, 2014 1 minute read

Inside Canada's New Corporate Weed System: Canadian Cannabis (Episode 1)

In this episode of Canadian Cannabis, Damian visits two gigantic weed factories in Ontario to check out what kind of bud the government has legally authorized. He also chats with pot activists throughout British Columbia to get their take on the new licensed producer system. And, lastly, we visited a private pot grower who has a medical grow license, but is being squeezed out by Canada's new medical marijuana program: the MMPR.

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Sep 3, 2014 1 minute read

Google tests drone delivery, iPhone 6 may have NFC

Michael Toscano, president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, discusses Amazon's battle against Google for drone supremacy and weighs in on the commercial drone controversy. He speaks with Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."

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Jun 19, 2014 1 minute read

The Only U.S. Government Funded Marijuana Farm

It may be legal to buy marijuana in 22 states, but growing pot is still against federal law. And yet, the US government grows some of the purest pot in the country, spending almost a million dollars a year on a contract with the University of Mississippi to grow cannabis and manufacture marijuana cigarettes. The UMiss farm is currently the only source in the US for legal marijuana for researchers, and the government currently gives it away to researchers who get all the right approvals.

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Jun 6, 2014 1 minute read

Average CEO pay tops $10 million for first time

Median CEO pay now tops $10 million, the first time the figure has reached eight digits. With their wages rising 50 percent in the last four years, CEO's made 257 times the average worker's pay in 2013. While wages for top business executives continue rising, middle class job growth and pay still struggle. Most new jobs are on the lowest end of the wage spectrum. RT's Lindsay France takes a deeper look at the figures and the widening income gap.

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May 28, 2014 1 minute read

The Most Expensive Street in the World

Hong Kong is now home to the most expensive real estate in the world. Hong Kong property power broker Sebastian Skiff, CBRE Asia executive director, gives Bloomberg's Betty Liu a tour of Causeway Bay, the world's most expensive retail area in the world.

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May 21, 2014 1 minute read

Just How Bad Was eBay’s Cyber-Attack?

eBay asked users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack exposed a database with login information and data such as birthdays and phone numbers. Shape Security Senior Security Researcher Wade Williamson and Social+Capital Managing Partner and Founder Chamath Palihapitiya speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”

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