Airing on Monday, April 6, 2015: Crude oil is up 2,7 percent at the moment, after Saudi Arabia raised prices for oil bound for Asia. More on that. Plus, can technology help us see into the future? Microsoft is helping researchers in Brazil study whether they can use big data to predict traffic snarls up to an hour before they happen. Finally, let’s take a quiz from quiz master Stephan Richter, editor in chief of the Globalist. Can you guess how many billionaires there are in the world? It might be fewer than you think.
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