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Now, this week, we have the storylines to watch during college football bowls, what to know about coding bootcamps How will General Motors move to restructure fare and discuss NASA's latest feat in Mars exploration, so let's dive in! [ MUSIC ] Bowls, bowls, and more bowls. College football bowl season kicks off December 15th with six games, which will be followed by 34 more games preceeding January 7th's National Championship And with Championship Week here we're just one week away from the announcement of this year's entire 40 game bowl schedule. The biggest debate is who will be pitted against Alabama in the national championship. After losing to Ohio State, Michigan falls out of the number four spot with no real chance of making its way back to the field. The Wolverine's loss is both Ohio State and Oklahoma's gain. Should the Georgia Bulldogs lose against 'Bama in the SEC title game, and both the Buckeyes and Sooners win their conference games, it sets up a big debate over who will get the fourth spot. Both OSU and Oklahoma have imperfect teams with elite offenses and inconsistent defenses. So the question stands, how will the committee compare with these almost identical teams? While the new year, six line up will get much clearer once the every conference title game match up is set, we will some bold story lines to watch for as the games take shape. Reborn and renewed, UAB football may be the best story as far as a bold team resurrection goes. In 2014, the Blazers coach Bill Clark and his job when the football program was dropped by the university. But UAB football was reinstated for the 2017 season, and Clarke rebuilt the team on rushing and defense. They're currently the only team in the country with three shutouts UAB ranks top five nationally and Sax scoring defense, passing defense, and total defense. Their stellar second win has assured back- to- back bowl games for the team. Potential match up against Mississippi State and Penn State at the Citrus Bowl could be our best revenge angle of the Bowls. The game could force Penn State to go up against their former offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead, who is now Mississippi State's head coach. And Moorhead has developed Mississippi State's defense to the point that it's among the best in the country. This season, Mississippi State has allowed offensive touchdowns, the fewest in the nation. Meanwhile, Penn State defense face some growing pains early in the season but were able to bounce back things to direction of their defensive coordinator, Brent Pry. Robert Meyer once called OSU's Dwayne Haskins the best Quarterback at his age I've ever seen, and Haskins's game hasn't disappointed. 42 touchdown passes to lead all Division I quarterbacks. The breakout QB has the full attention of NFL evaluators and should have an NFL draft decision to make at the season's end. So depending on Haskins's decision, Ohio State fans might only have one or two more chances to see his talents on display for the scarlet and gray. Regardless, Haskins' decision will surely leave a mark on the Buckeyes. And while we're set to have another fierce debate about who deserves the fourth and final spot in the college football playoff this season, we know that's not the only storyline to watch out for. Here's to another year of the most exciting college football bowl games yet. [ MUSIC ] For years coding scores were seen as answer to the tech industries prayers to produce talent for rapidly evolving field. Well good candidates were notoriously hard to find and universities arent producing enough stem grads needed for the industry. Boot camps offers students the opportunity to train for tech jobs in a fraction of the time it will take them to pursue a traditional 4 year degree. With the average programme totalling to $ 11900. And 2018 marks the sixth anniversary for the Alternative Education Motto, which is estimated to be worth $ 240 Million Since 2013 the number of bootcamp schools in the US has tripled to more than a hundred and the number of graduates will reach nearly 20, 000 in 2018, according to coarse report which tracks the industry. According to the organization 73 % of bootcampers report being employed as developers. After graduation. And many coding bootcamps offer job guarantees for its students. Some even offer a full or partial tuition refund if students are unable to find a job within a certain amount of time after graduation. That as two of the largest bootcamp schools shut down in 2017, the industry faced a sobering reality. Despite increasing employer demand, some bootcamp programs were unable to innovate alongside the field to prepare students for the necessary skill void. Many bootcamps never evolved past courses in basic web development. And companies are now often looking for more advanced coding skills. So how do boot camp schools actually fair against traditional computer science graduates. Well, some employers say that boot camp grads do not have a better grasp of necessary broader concepts and algorithms. According to a study by nd. com of over a thousand HR managers and technical recruiters. 72 % of employers think bootcamp grads are just as prepared to be high performers as traditional degree holders. Coding schools are aware of this perceived divide and have established partnerships with universities. Some programs like Level at Northeastern University offer course credit that can count toward a degree. And other models colleges bring in a coding school to offer classes as part of the career development curriculum. But in what appears to be a first make school a San Francisco based coding program will grant graduates of its program a bachelor's degree in applied computer science in partnership with Dominican University California but whether you're looking to transition your career or for a college replacement all together remember not all programs are created equal before making an investment make sure you follow up with programs to ask what company's recent [ UNKNOWN ] They're at and check out the instructors experience to make sure they've worked in a tech industry your home work could ensure your education will actually lead to a quality job in tech [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] General Motors had quartered in Detroit as one of the largest auto makers in the world. The iconic manufacturer has had a storied history with many set backs and rebirths over its 110 years. Or the company dominated half the auto industry in 1954. By the 1980s, Japanese car makers like Toyota and Honda had made huge in- roads in the US car market with their reliable compact cars. GF's rough ride continued into the 2000s. It lost a record $ 38. 7 billion in 2007 resulting in a federal government bailout of $ 13. 4 billion in 2008 And an additional 6 billion in 2009. More recently, after years of stagnating innovation, the car giant's been clawing its way back to relevancy, with new compact models like the Cadillac CT6 and the Chevy Impala, which they are now abandoning. It was only in 2010 that the company made its first profit since 2004, of $ 4. 7 billion. And, even though unemployment is at histroic lows, the economy is growing and US auto sales are near record high, General Motors announced it's cutting thousands of jobs in a major restructuring move aimed to generate cash to spend on the companies future. On November 26th, the Gm annonced that we will lay of 15 % of salaried workers and close five plants in the US and Canada Restructuring will reportedly save the company $ 6 billion by 2020. News of the layoffs come against the backdrop of trade wars between the US, China and Europe. In June 2018, GM sent a letter To the Commerce Department warning that government proposed tariffs could hurt the company. General Motors said its plan to restructure will enable it to reinvest money from cars that were once popular and put it into tech that would power its future. Sales of sedans have dramatically decreased for automakers in recent years in favor of SUVs and hatchbacks, and GM plans to phase out its less popular models including the Chevy Cruze and the Chevy Volt. Themove to close [ UNKNOWN ] is a step towards it's focus tol produce eletric and unautonomous vehicles following the company's new model, zero crashes, zero emmissions, zero congestion. Last year the company invested in this feature and bought cruise automation a San Francisco based driver leased car company. Well the news [ UNKNOWN ] from Wall street GM'S stock closed at 5 % after the annoumcement Mainstreet and the president were in uproar. President Trump who's made bringing auto jobs back to the US a big part of his voter appeal, took aim at CEO Mary Barra, saying this. Well we don't like it, and I heard they were closing. And I said this country's done a lot for General Motors, you better get back in there soon, that's Ohio. And you better get back in there soon. So we have a lot of pressure on that. Ohio Senator Sherroo Brown also expressed his dissapointment in GM's decision, tweeting that Ohio taxpayers rescued GM and it's shameful that the company is now abandoning the Mohinig Valley and laying off workers right before the holidays. Barra said in a conference call to reporters that she wanted to transition the company when times were good. Meanwhile, auto makers and tech companies alike are in a race to perfect self driving tech, vying for a spot to introduce the first fully autonomous vehicle. GM has said it'll be on a hiring spree over the next five years to add over 1, 000 employees to work on it's autonomous vehicles. So how will GM's bet on the future unfold? For now the car giant faces steep competition with Ford, Audi, Tesla, and tech giants like Google, Uber, and Lyft each promising to deliver self driving cars in the next five years. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] After six months of travelling through space, the NASA Insight mission landed on Mars on November 26th. It's a landing that was watched around the world and within minutes Insight shared an official beep to signal it was alive and well, along with a photo of the Martian surface where it landed. MIssion control at NASA exploded into celebratory applause and cheers after the touchdown was confirmed. The project took nearly a decade to develop, and ultimately cost about one billion dollars. After the successful landing, Vice President Mike Pence called to congratulate the entire team for their efforts. Only 40 % of missions sent to the Red planet by any space agency have been successful. And November 26 touchdown marks the first time in six years that a NASA spacecraft has landed on the Red planet following 2012's CuriosityRover. The mission stands as NASA's 8th successful landing of a robot on the planet To reach Mars Insight cruised over 300 million miles through space followed by two cubed satellites, the first to ever fly into deep space to help flight controllers follow Insight's descent. Because of the great distance, NASA's mission scientists weren't able to directly pilot the lander. This huge engineering challenge wa compounded by th fact that, radio transmissions to insight take eight minutes to reach earth. And the robot had only 6. 5 minutes to land itself. That's a very brief window of time Time for things to go exactly right and Insight's work on the planet is just beginning. The Mars Rover is equipped with a slew of instruments to explore over the next two years a part of Mars we know little about, its deep interior. Here to discuss this major feat in interplanetary space travel and what happens next is Time Editor- at- Large, Jeffrey Kluger. All right, Jeffrey, thanks so much for joining us. Now, earlier, we talked about Insight's successful landing, but what exactly makes a journey to Mars so challenging? Well, first of all, it's the distance. Insight traveled 290 million miles over the course of six months to get to Mars. So that's a whole lot of time. When it gets there, it has to contend with a Martian atmosphere. That allows it to get partway down by parachute, but the atmosphere isn't thick enough to let it get all the way to the surface. So you still need rocket engines at the end. That's a multi- part landing. Finally, it has to do all of this within just eight minutes. And essentially, it's eight minutes when we on Earth don't know what's going on. Because it takes radio signals 8 minutes and 20 seconds to get to Mars. And then another 8 minutes and 20 seconds to get back. So the spacecraft, for practical purposes, is on its own landing itself, and we have to wait until the signals come down that say it got there safely. Now, what exactly is Insight's mission? Insight's mission is for the first time to give Mars kind of an internal check up. Typically we land on Mars and geologically interesting places. Places with craters and reels and mountains and foothills because that's where the interesting geology is. This time we wanna land on a flat plane, we did land on a flat plane And the objective is to get a sense of Mars' interior. Prob will be driven 16 feet into the surface to test its temperature, scientists will be looking for Mars quakes, the equivalent of earthquakes which tell us something about the interior structure. There'll be looking for the wobble of Mars. Basically, the more we learn about Mars The more we learn about all rocky terrestrial planets like Earth, like Mars, like Venus and like Mercury, and once we do that we learn about our solar system, and all solar systems in ways we never knew before. Now, Elon Musk has been talking about his plans to colonize Mars for years, so one, how close are we and two, what would that even look like. We are not close and a lot of people talk about getting there in the early 2020s, that wont happen. And the best will be there at the mid 2030s. It will not be an easy or enjoyable place to live. But think that earth we adapt to live on earth, so everything the earth has keeps us alive Mars is almost designed to kill us. The atmosphere is only 1 % as thick as ours is. It's made almost entirely of carbon dioxide which is toxic to us. Cosmic radiation bathes the planet in ways it doesn't honor, we're protected on earth. The best analogy, and even that's not a very good Is that living on Mars would be what it's like when scientists live for six months or eight months at a time at the south pole. And at the south pole, at least you can go outside and breathe the air. On Mars, that's not possible. So challenging to say the least. Challenging but we could do it. All right, very insightful stuff. Jeffrey thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. And that's The Breakdown for this week. Until next Wednesday, I'm Neha Joy, and thanks for joining our weekly roundup. 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