05/08/2017 Click - Short Edition

Britain has never had a champion in the event.

But it has yet another in Sir Mo Farah, the greatest

In a few minutes, it'll be time for the Film Review.

They're ugly, huge and they ruin the landscape,

but we do kind of need them to get from A to B.

But sometimes a road can be more than just a road.

And that's the idea behind a French government backed initiative

using the massive space given over to the transport network

to also capture the Sun through solar roads.

I mean, look at this road, what's it doing right now,

And it's estimated that even busy roads can see the sky

But it's not all plain... Sunning.

The problem with putting photovoltaic cells into roads

is the slightest bit of pressure, the slightest bend, and...

So the cells are stuck onto slabs and covered with crushed glass

At the facility near Versailles, in France, these seven millimetre

thick panels are being tested for their strength and durability

so they can withstand heavy traffic as well as ensuring

We have the cell and on each face we added polymer to increase

the stiffness and the durability of the cells itself.

So do they bend or are they just resistant to bending?

Yes, of course they bend, but just a little bit.

Although the panels can be laid over existing roads,

this one-kilometre stretch in Normandy covering 2,800 square

That's an estimated 4-6 times the price of covering the area

Currently, yes, of course the cost is quite high.

After concerning the interest it's really a political approach.

Critics have questions about the viability of panels

on busy roads and the efficiency of laying panels down flat

The angle or the tilt angle of the panels will also

If we have them lying on the floor, on the road,

then we are influencing the tilt angle.

One possible advantage of having the panels flat on the ground

is that in the future they could be used to charge electric vehicles

And charging vehicles as they move is another idea on the horizon.

Developed by Qualcomm Technologies, this 100-metre stretch

of dynamically charging road is also being trialled in Versailles.

I do like the idea that although the road networks have

obviously been a major source of the planet's pollution problems,

they could also be, in the future, one of the solutions

And with the UK Government phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles,

renewable transport solutions like this might just be the ticket.

Stationery induction charging works like wirelessly charged phones,

producing a magnetic field that's converted to DC power.

Though this technology has been with us for a while, dynamic roads

How accurately do you have to park this thing so

At the moment we're talking about an area the size

of about a dinner plate, as long as that's aligned on both

sides you should be able to send the charge through that.

You have a line of these on a road and you simply connect them all up

and that would effectively give you a charging road.

As long as the car was obviously aligned with that,

and the technology was all linked and synced up, the car

could actually charge while it's driving along using exactly the same

Critics though worry about the infrastructure cost

Others point to the rapid developments in electric vehicle

battery capacity that may remove the need for electric cars

But if solar roads can be made cheaply enough

and withstand heavy traffic, this could be one to watch

Hello and welcome to The Week in Tech.

It was the week that the script for an unseen episode of Game

of Thrones, as well as those from other HBO shows, was leaked

An new version of Bitcoin was mined for the first time as the crypto

And the US Navy's launched its first fighter jet powered

The high-tech, high speed, Hyperloop One has

A test that propelled this pod through a tube

in the Nevada desert at 192 mph, edging closer to its eventual aim

of one day transporting passengers at speeds of up to 650 mph.

Meanwhile a security researcher managed to hack an Amazon Echo,

making it possible to remotely stream audio from someone's device.

The attack could only work on pre-2017 versions though,

and physical access to the Echo is needed first.

And finally the team behind the hand-held spray

printer painting device, which we showed you a couple

of months ago, have developed a robotic version that made it

possible to paint this giant masterpiece on an abandoned power

station, using five different colours at once.

I'm Scott Helm, here to give you a 101 to Black Hat,

BSides and DEF CON, which all happen during one crazy week in Las Vegas.

This is a very, very popular course, we've got some of the latest stuff

that we've found in our own hacking that we do for clients

The good guys have got to learn it because the bad guys already do.

I've embedded some code into the page and then when you load

the page it puts that message up, that it's not supposed to do.

It was a nice introductory level course.

So obviously this could be used for harm and the flip side of this

is, if you were setting up to be a cybercriminal would you come

to a formal conference like this and register to do a training course

Or would you go and learn how to do this on the dark web somewhere else?

I don't think we would really expect to see criminals coming

So we are in the vendor hall right now.

This is where all the different companies have their stands,

This represents what they do inside your network,

in that an attacker now doesn't know where the real target

We're in the desert, drink plenty of water.

Get a goodie bag and fill it with swag.

So we've just checked in B-Sides, I have my bag, everyone that attends

the conference gets a little bag of goodies so we're just

Got a few stickers here, the little Hawaiian necklaces,

It's very corporate, it's very kind of official and formal.

This is like a much more relaxed setting, it's much more enjoyable.

The opening key note is taking place just behind me,

and we're going to go and take a look around the vendors around

So, the Wi-Fi network is here is monitored,

and the screen behind me shows you things that people

So we managed to just get the BBC Click logo and Rory

The whole idea is it's analysing the network,

and then carving out images real time, and displaying them up

So anything that anybody is looking at on the network,

I found some ex-colleagues of mine from England.

I'm going to the banking on insecurity nets,

Yes, so being members of the press at BSides,

we can't go into the underground track, which is no

Most people don't even use their real names in the schedule,

and unfortunately we're banned, we can't go in there.

It's a tech conference, it's a hacker conference.

People often think it might be less sociable,

but this is where most of us do our networking.

We're in the middle of filming and somebody has just hacked the PA

Effectively, this badge is like a tiny computer,

and I can make it do like really cool stuff.

Yeah, we have come to the chill out zone just to take a little break.

I bumped into an old work colleague and friend of mine, Andy.

He's a goon here, at DEF CON this year.

Most people probably won't know what being a goon is, so...

So being a goon is basically the enforcement of fun.

So we were walking the corridors earlier today, and we heard some

numbers being thrown around, in the region of 50-60,000

attacks a day are launched against the DEF CON network,

It's what you would expect of a hacking conference's network.

There's no official challenge, but hackers going to hack.

Federal agents attend the Conference dressed in plain clothing.

It's easy for them to blend in, and there's a running competition

every year to try and spot and identify federal agents.

My guesses would be they're looking out for people they may

need to keep an eye on, and the other side of

So we were watching somebody get their first implant.

I'm kind of wondering, how much it will hurt.

I'm going to apply a little bit of pressure.

It was literally like something poking around inside my hand.

My front door lock at home, I'm going to replace

it with an NFC lock, and it will sense the chip in my

When you're at DEF CON, you just never know

what is going to happen next, it could be a complete surprise.

You will find more on privacy, security, and hacking on our website

and social media as part of BBC media's hacking season. That is the

short version of Click for this week. The full version is online.

Thank you for watching and we will see you soon.