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are expected to appeal against the sentence. That's it from me. Lots

more at the top of the ally. Here on BBC News, it is time for Click.

Military mistakes, public surveillance, national security. Can

you keep a secret? This week on Click, hero or villain?

We chat to one of the most divisive figures of the web. What do you get

if you cross our taser with a drone? Well, a taser`drone of course. We

asked the question, why? We go behind the screens with the

advertising tax that is planning to take over the world. And, flight

delays got you down? We will show you how to survive the longer than

expected airport stay in Webscape. Back welcome to Click. We've spent a

lot of time talking about one person, and this person is one of

the most controversial in the world and he helped facilitate one of the

biggest security leaks in history. We've never had the chance to talk

to him directly or ask him any questions. That is, until now.

That's because, this week I've been able to over satellite to Julian

Assange, founder of the website Wikileaks. Assange has been based in

the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, following a British

court ruling that he should be extradited to Sweden for questioning

over allegations of sexual assault. Former hacker, in April 2010,

Assange and wiki leaks blamed notoriety releasing footage of US

soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in a rut. Millions

of other classified documents followed. `` Iraq. For supporters,

he is an advocate of free speech, shining a light on the murky

activities of governments around the world. His detractors say he is a

harmful and unpredictable figure, endangering countless lives by

exposing sensitive and classified information to the public. Whatever

you think of him, his influence on the world of tech is undeniable.

Inspiring people like Edward Snowden and, for good or bad, changing the

way we view and street information. `` view and treat. You have been in

the embassy for two years, what is life like for you smack it is a

difficult environment. `` life for you? There is eight million dollars

of admitted surveillance of the embassy in the last 18 months.

Snowden documents reveal the GCHQ has been spiring on a operation

since 2`on`212. `` spying `` 2012. Edward Snowden has revealed that a

lot of our communications are snooped, are being tapped,

collected. The people in the middle are those that host the date and run

the infrastructure. Do you think they are at risk? Edward Snowden

demonstrates conclusively something that has been known by word of mouth

within the internet services industry for a long time, that the

NSA, GCHQ, and allied agencies in countries like Sweden, have been in

the business of targeting employees of major hosting companies. System

administrators and so on, for computer hacking. It has been

suggested that different countries or continents set up their own

internet. Angela Merkel suggested an internet for Europe. Do you think

that is workable? And, would we be better off than the internet in at

the moment? The impulse to do it is important and would lead

two good things. The devil is in the detail in terms of how this

operates. `` Europe is like a telecommunications company. It is

penetrated and compromised and engages in dirty deals with the US

government, especially the UK and Sweden. Who should be in charge of

deciding what stays secret for good reason and what gets published? We

can't publish everything, surely? Wiki leaks has a seven year

publishing history and we have never got it wrong. `` Wikileaks. We've

never publish material in a form that has led to the physical harm of

a single person. The US admits that. Any claim otherwise is simply spend.

Are you asking the world to trust you? For an organisation to be

accountable, the buck has to stop with someone. In publishing

organisations, the buck stops with the publisher or the editor. I

wonder if you think it is possible to have completely private data in

2014, or whether that is a fantasy? The question is whether a stake

intelligence Alliance, principally the UK and the US, can spy upon the

entire world at once `` state. On a constant basis, every person,

mapping out a community structure, finding out who is connected to

whom. It is not about making sure that a single person cannot be spied

upon all the communications between two people is always private. The

real battle is to ensure it is hard to intercept everyone at once.

Julian Assange, thank you very much for joining us. You're welcome.

Julian Assange, he is a controversial figure. You might feel

strongly about some of the things he said. If you do, device your

thoughts. `` give us your thoughts. If you are concerned about the level

of surveillance and the threats that comes with that, this will not be

good news. Because, yes, this is a small drone. It has one minor

modification for most other drones. It happens to be fitted with a

taser. To be more accurate, a stun gun capable of delivering 80,000

volts of electricity via a wire diet. The hybrid is the rain child

of Texas design firm Chaotic Moon who tried out the prototype for

Click on these capable dummy. This. `` the invention is called the

chaotic unmanned in personal internet drone or, keep it to get

its more romantic sounding title. CUPID. `` why does the world need a

taser`drone? This is the same thing you see in the video games these

days. You see them in sci`fi movies. We want to take this concept and

make it real, show it can be built and show it can work, to raise the

question of technology and humanity and start an open discussion. What

do you do if you have taste every dummy in the office? You get the

office in turn to volunteer. `` intern. Witness Darren literally

taking one for the team. We should point out that he was unhurt after

being struck by CUPID's taser and needless to say, please don't try

this at home. Now you know how the boss motivates the team. Next up, a

look at the tech news for the week. Amazon has launched its own internet

connected TV set`top box. Built to compete against Apple and Google, it

will allow customers to stream content from Amazon's library and

other on demand services, direct to the televisions. Dubbed, Amazon Fire

TV, users can play online games and it has gone on sale in the US for

$99. One of the largest ever Earth observation programmes took off this

week with the launch of the Sentinel satellite, which will be followed by

a fleet of other satellites that will return data and measurements of

the state of the planet. It is hoped the project will provide information

on climate change and help monitor and respond to natural disasters.

Let the voice battle commence, Microsoft has unveiled more time,

its answer to Siri, for its Windows phone handset. The assistant is

named after the AI in the Halo games and uses Microsofts `` Microsoft's

being website. It makes recommendations to carry out tights

`` tasks. They have announced the Windows 8.1 update will be offered

as a free upgrade from eight April. Forget the millions of pixels on

your TV, meet the Pixelbots, the 75 strong swarm can create simple

coloured images and animations on tabletops and whiteboards. While we

might fear the inevitable bull `` inevitable robo`pocalypse, at least

it will look nice. In the age of big data, the

corporate world is getting better at which `` knowing which buttons to

press to get reactions from us, when it comes to advertising

particularly. Look at these attractive people. The more you know

the troops and techniques, doesn't this generic ad remind you of a

certain fruit `based tech company Rice the mort of a turnoff

advertising can be. `` the more. Almost as boring as waiting for a

bus. LJ Rich has been finding out. This isn't the inevitable robot

uprising, instead you are looking at something that has been part of an

elaborate advertising campaign. What's happening here is you are

mixing video from camera on the back of this part of the bus stop with

preprepared special effects. Get the perspective and the lighting right

and you've got an ad that got 4.7 million views on YouTube in less

than a week. For this to work, everything the camera sees has to

line up directly with this grid. Exact measurements are important

because the graphic designers need to know exactly where to put their

visuals. The installation itself is quite simple. Along with a camera,

there is a 65 inch screen inside the shelter, connected to a single

computer running Windows seven. All the hard calculations for the

scenarios have been done in advance and that took around three months

``Windows seven. We've taken some shots of Oxford Street and have re`

version that into a 3`D world and the content we have created when

that space uses the environment specifically for that bus stop. If

we were going to roll that out across 1500 bus stops around the

country, we would have to do that exact same process with all of them

and that is where the challenge is. We worked with Unilever on one of

their deodorant brand is to make angels appear like they were falling

from the sky, landing on the station concourse around a user. First time

that augmented reality has been used on a large`scale format. They had to

make videos work in different lighting scenarios, for example,

nighttime or here, dusk. It is a painstaking and elaborate process.

As consumers get more savvy about Rand interaction, ads will get more

sophisticated. After all, sharing engaging and interesting videos with

other is fuel for a social status updating habit ``brand. If the

content is sponsored or not, that's comes second to whether it is any

good. On second thoughts, I might walk. Need to promote a product?

Service? Or a thing? You need to advertise. It is delicious! Here at

the Museum of brands, packaging and advertising, visitors are surrounded

by product and commercials from a time when social networking meant

attending a debutante ball. Advertisers are finding it

increasingly difficult to attract the attention of audiences. More and

more TV users are watching on demand streaming services or enjoying TV

box sets in great big ad free golds. As more and more TV users are void

advertisements modern day madman are designing ways to make products seem

desirable. While the practice of product placement has gone on for

decades, developers are trying to use technology originally designed

for Hollywood block busters to allow them to change things post editing.

It allows us to change things that gets distributed to 200 different

markets, different brands can be placed in the show as it airs. The

good example of that is in Brazil, where we place a Mitsubishi in place

of a Bentley in one scene. Some people say it should have been the

other way round. The Mitsubishi were specifically being launched in

Brazil at the time that the show was airing. In order to add an object

after it has been filmed, you had to understand how the camera has moved

in 3`D space. Our brains are variable about this, but a computer

on its own is a flat in meaningless collection of colours. The

techniques pioneered here help computers to automatically

understand what is going on in a particular shot, so they know how

the camera is moving. Once you know that, you can put the new object in

with exactly the right orientation and lighting. Product placement is

an example of a hidden method of persuasion. However, in some

quarters, more overt tactics are preferred. Online advertising can be

very specific and targeted. Advertisers can track what sites

users have searched for and visited, tailoring ads as a result of the

data gathered. TV is starting to imitate what the online world is

doing, and they always say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

We must be doing something right in the online world, because TV is

starting to go towards making ads more targeted and more personalised.

Historically, advertising has a work kept pace with the latest advances

in technology, whether that is paintball pixels, in order to sell

stuff. The manner of delivery may change, but the message remains the

same. If you want to get noticed in the

tech world, San Francisco is the place to be. It is teeming with

young hopefuls, all vying for interest in their latest invention.

There are regular events designed to help them show off their wares,

whether it be the latest must have at Ory giant surveillance robot. ``

latest must have application. Technology dream seekers class of

2014. 300 companies with inventions ranging from the wacky to the

downright outrageous. This RoboCop surveillance, called the

Knightscope, might look like R2`D2's little brother, but if

anything, he is using public spaces to prevent and predict crime. We

have cameras for surveillance, biological sensors, things that can

monitor the weather, we have numberplate recognition, facial

recognition and also gestural recognition. If someone is waving

their hands or laying on the ground where they shouldn't be, those are

things that can pick up on and send queues and alert someone. Other

surveillance hardware on show was more cuddly, like this remind camera

equipped dog feeder. Perhaps more useful, a new twist on

teleconferencing, giving participants more control over their

remote proceedings. Inventions on the show floor for the most part are

microcosm of the tech world at large, from 3`D printed would to

virtual currency scratch cards. If you want to go into a retail setting

today and by bitcoin is there is pretty much know where you can go.

Our product allows you to buy it from a regular score, like a liquor

store Ory discount store, get a gift card, and be able to then get the

bitcoin is online. The watchword was mobile. Many applications reflected

wider trends from sharing professions to personal health

check. This allows people to use smart phones to scan for skin

cancer, uploading photographs of possible lesions to experts. San

Francisco is startup Central, and those who have made the trek to the

West Coast were in little doubt it was worth it.

First, drones fitted with taser is, now a giant surveillance robot,

surely someone will start complaining about this soon.

Technology may be watching us, but we are pretty good at keeping an eye

on it as well. He comes Webscape. If you travel a lot, you have

probably spent a lot of time walking around airports, hopelessly lost.

GateGuru is a stress busting application, showing the way to all

the features and amenities in thousands of airports around the

world. You can also get real`time information about your travel

itinerary, such as flight times, weather and other important details.

Finding your way around a foreign airport can be a nightmare. Even if

it is just yourself you have to worry about. Add small children to

that equation, and it is a recipe for stress that could offset any of

the benefits of going on holiday in the first place. NCT baby change

offers parents relief by instantly finding the closest baby changing

facilities using GPS. It is mainly focused on the UK right now, but

users outside the UK can also add new facilities to grow the database

through the power of the crowd. Another great location resource I

found recently is The Gap Abel Road. It helps disabled people find the

best facilities so they can enjoy the best places. Whether you are

looking for a car rental firm or a restaurant, all the businesses

listed in this directory are reviewed and rated by visitors to

the site. Those with disabilities, their friends, families and carers,

said it you can be confident you know what to expect. Like all good

location `based information services there are free applications for iOS

and Android, so you can find accessible places while you are out

and about. Again, you can add your own locations and reviews to help

fellow users. Video conferencing has really

evolved over the past decade, as communications platforms like Skype,

Google Hangouts and GoToMeeting, compete for our attention. One thing

all these platforms have in common is the need to register for the

service, and often download a piece of software. Appear.in is rebooting

the genre with a free bow `` browser `based application. It is so easy to

use, it almost hurts. Because this platform uses a new technology based

on HTML five, it mirror `` there are no browser software is to install.

You just fire up your website and share a link to invite up to eight

people to conference with you. It works in Google Chrome, Firefox and

Opera. The quality is pretty good, in fact, I found the quality was

smoother than on Skype, which has a tendency to start when the

connection is under stress. As well as sharing audio, you can share your

screen activity, just like the other popular platforms.

Kate Russell's Webscape. You will find all of those links on our

website, along with a regularly updated feed of the latest

technology news. If you would like to comment on everything you have

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