12/04/2014 Click

the shots that killed her. Those are the latest headlines. Now, on BBC

News, it is time for Click. I am about to change the world and I have

everything I need. It my coffee, this is my computer, and this is my

office. `` this is my coffee. This week on Click, we go underground to

live, meet and work with the hackers who are trying to change and or

undermine the system. Do we need another social network's Twitter

co`founder is Stone seems to think so and we will check his new app,

called Jelly. If you find particle physics hard to understand, we are

at CERN to meet the filmmakers who are bringing technology to bring the

stories of science to life. Here is one for me, how to conquer your fear

of spiders, coming up in Webscape. `` Biz Stone. Welcome to Click. It

is tempting to think all innovations these days come out of big shiny

companies like Apple or Google. Or, maybe the cheeky little start`ups

that they will end up buying. If those inventions to end up changing

the world, they will make their parent companies a lot of money.

Many of the foundations of the internet were actually built on

so`called open standards, available for anyone to use and adapt and

invented by people who won't in it for the money. `` were not in it for

the money. We have met this guy, Cody Wilson on click that before,

and he designed, printed and fired the world 's first three deep into

it done. `` three D printed. His latest project is the release of the

Dark Wallet, a tool to further analyse transactions made by

bitcoin. What is surprising about the way the project is delivered is

the programmers behind it are living and working in squats around the

world. They are choosing a communal, open`source slice `` life over the

millions they could command in silicon valley. Barcelona is a

centre for these developers and Jane Cope stake spent a week in one of

the cybersquat. `` cybersquats. May is one of the older squats in

Barcelona, occupied for 25 years `` May. It is hosting a group of

Europe's most influential hackers. Amir Taaki is one of the key

developers and a former develop a poker player and video designer. He

was expelled from school for hacking. From a young age I was

reading about science and I was sitting playing videogames and

seating different scenarios `` seeing. You start to see things you

could improve on and and make better. He was recently named by

Forbes magazine as one of the top 30 tech designers. He rewrote the

source code for bit more in. I got into open`source, which is a

movement of people around the a lot of the software we use and depend on

IQ software in our Routers and in supercomputers, or on the internet,

runs Linux, which is built by people around the world might built by a

community, worth billions, more than Microsoft or Mac OS X. People all

around the world come together to develop software around these

principles. The principles of free software driving the movement have

led some developers to work in a network of squats you are doing the

bulk of the work? Yes. Pablo Martin is one of the main developers

working with a mirror on the Dark Wallet and has been living and

working in squats around the world for 12 years. I have been spending

time with them as they prepare for the release of the software. I see

it as a way where I can not need to work for the money but for learning

and on the thing that matter so me and others. They live off little

money, getting some food for free by dumpster diving from supermarkets.

We are just getting the food and that's it. When will you get to bed

? A couple of hours, or maybe until the morning. The next day,

everything is quiet in Kasa de la Muntanya. Not everyone has been

asleep. I have just woken and it is morning here in the Scott, and while

I have been asleep at the Dark Wallet team have been busy working

all night on the project `` here in the squat. They work on guifi.net,

providing free Wi`Fi to people in rural areas of Spain. Our people

hungry for these tools? Completely. People in other countries are using

it. They want to pay us money. The Dark Wallet as well, people need

it. Lee it is important that when you are developing tools to empower

people and give them more responsibility, more sovereignty

over their lives, it is not enough that you are just developing them in

the black box, you need to deploy them with people who are actually

using the tools. One of the tools they are bringing to the community

is a bitcoin ATM. It is not up and running, but the goal is for people

to use the Dark Wallet with the machine, and eventually people can

buy and sell bitcoin and exchange them for euros. Beyond local

applications, they see bitcoin as a political tool, able to influence

situations like that in Iran, where his father is from. The situation is

volatile in a run. `` Iran. Became the used to evade sanctions from the

US, said censorship of currency payments in Iran and use it to hedge

against the rial. Became the controversial. It is the reason

these developers give up millions to live like this. Have you sacrificed

a lot? Yes. A few times I was homeless. Many times I was without

money. You are so often just by yourself, isolated. It is difficult

sometimes. The squat lifestyle might not be to everyone's taste, but for

this movement, the open`source way of life fits perfectly with their

way of coding. Living rough in Barcelona and what a

fascinating story. With me is Jamie Bartlett, writing and art and

research in technology subculture is. You visited a squat similar to

the one yen visited. It was interesting to see how different

people live together `` Jen. They share everyday activities, cooking,

eating and sleeping. That rubs off on the way that a programme and

code. They are committed to "software, free software, sharing

what they do openly and a lot of they design is used by all of us for

nothing. Is tempting I would imagine for people who saw the report to say

that these people are just dropouts and they can't be bothered to get a

job and use their skills elsewhere. Are they really as influential as we

are hearing less yellow some of them are extremely influential. ``? When

you look back on the history of modern computing, the great pioneers

were dropouts, people who did not play by the rules, look for

alternative ways of living. What you make of their ideas? Will they

change the world for the better? You could argue that cybersquat 's and

open source communities have already changed the world and they have

already changed it for the better `` cybersquats. Some of those that work

on specific crypto currencies like bitcoin and who are trying to make

genuinely anonymous forms of currency transaction, I think that

is going to be incredibly important in the years ahead. Some of it is

good and valuable, but within it contains the seeds of problems for

governments especially. Jan Ness did a bit of effort in getting in touch

with these people, and gaining their trust `` Jen invested. Why are these

people hard to contact? Why don't they trust people? It is an

interesting question, trust with these people. The systems they

design are about trying to create systems that you can trust. They are

often not trustworthy of other people. One of the reasons for that

is that they know what they are doing. They know the projects and

plans a controversial and they know there will be journalists and

researchers and government agents and other nefarious interest who

will try to find out what they are doing. They don't care what the rest

of us think. They are happy living in their squat, designing pieces of

software that they believe will conquer the world. Why should they

bring anyone else in? Thank you for shedding light on what is a

fascinating movement. Next up, I looked at this week 's

tech news. Change all your passwords, that was the advice from

a host of security firms following the discovery of a major bug

nicknamed heartbleed. The exploit was discovered in software called

OpenSSL, used by servers and operating and messaging systems.

Designed to protect sensitive data as it travels back and forth, the

vulnerability in OpenSSL could have exposed anyone visiting sites which

use the software displaying and electronic eavesdropping. Running

low on battery? And Israeli start`up has a solution. Store. Shows off a

desire that fuels your phone in 30 seconds. It uses nanotechnology and

relies on conductive crystals to ensure rapid charging. It is

reportedly hoping to begin production in two years. It is

difficult to take selfie is and it is possible you might drop your

phone while getting the perfect angle. This self enhancing live feed

image engine aims to change this. It is a 2`way mirror powered by a

processor. Stand in front and smile. Facial recognition technology will

do the rest and will post your face automatically onto Twitter. There

are plenty of ways to get social online these days and it is not all

about sharing pictures of pets, children and dinner. It is often

more useful when it is used to help each other out. From networks like

Yahoo Answers in 2005, to newer ones like Quora, users ask and answer

questions, with good answers being voted by the community. There is a

new nightly Day on the block and it has It is the brainchild of Twitter

founder, is stone. We caught up with him to ask questions of our own ``

Biz Stone. Social media is Biz Stone's business, he programmed one

of the most influential weather apps in the world. In the days before

hashtag is an selfies, Twitter had its fair share of detractors. Not

only did the idea, it changed the world. I think we are still trying

to find where the appropriate line is. Do you post your beauty party

pictures on a social network to live on for ever? Or do you use one of

these applications that has it disappear after ten seconds? All

this connectivity, it makes me want to ask, what is the true promise of

a connected society? I have to think that it is helping people. People

helping each other. It sounds nice, but will Jelly become the go to

social app for advice? Or if the idea is wobbly as its food

counterpart? So, take a picture... At a question... And, sit back and

wait for the answers from your social network to roll in. In the

meantime, you could answer a few questions that other people have

posted. In the space of just a couple of minutes, I have answers to

the question I put up. If only high had put a useful question there.

Speaking of which, what are people actually using this for? I do

marketing education in my business, and they asked a question about what

are the most tired and overused marketing phrases, and I've got a

few good responses for that. I have used it a bit for my business and a

bit for personal, and I have had some fun entering people's

questions. Compare to social networks, you can't we have a proper

discussion on Twitter, so posting a question on Jelly is like posting a

question on Facebook, it will hang around long enough for other people

to see it and respond. Asking questions on the internet is of

course about as reliable as you would think it might be, but people

can vote and set up. It is similar to read it, Yahoo Answers, and

Quora. We are reaching one degree and two degrees out, and someone

might not know the answer themselves, but they might know

someone in their contacts on their phone who can help you. Now, you are

jumping right out of any sort of network into a whole new social

network. That is the strength of weak ties phenomenon. One of the

reasons behind Twitter's success could be down to the way the

platform listened and adapted to its users. A famous example is the

hashtag. They were officially adopted after others were already

using it. LJ Rich, talking to Biz Stone about

jelly. Have you ever played a game that has been so compelling you have

completely lost herself in it? If you have, it means that someone has

done a great job designing the right story for the right technology to

immerse yourself in. That means, in theory at least, no topic is

off`limits, even though it is not traditionally considered thrilling.

David Reid has been to the European Centre for Nuclear Research, sermon,

where groups of scientists and creatives have been working out how

to tell compelling stories about science. `` CERN. How do you tell a

story about particle physics? The science is hard to grasp and

complicated to explain. Yet, particle fever, a documentary about

the discovery of the Higgs boson or God particle is captivating

audiences and critics. I did not think I was making a film about the

discovery of the Higgs boson, I thought I was making a film about

scientists and their passion and what the process is. I think you

need to focus on something that has dramatic elements and good

characters. Making scientific stories accessible is exactly what

he tried at the film institute is trying to do at this happens on,

called Story Matter. It is their own CERN experiment, a sort of creative

particle accelerator with scientists, artists, filmmakers,

colliding with one another in a confined place. They have just five

days to make a compelling story about science. I think if they have

a core interest of storytelling in general, and you put them around the

table for five days, extraordinary things will happen. Because it is so

novel, you automatically attract audiences. This is how applications

and games are made. The teams wrestle with technical issues. And

tough subject matter. One team is telling a story about viral

infection, another about dark matter. Teams at the Tribeca Hacks

upon, they are producing stories about international sciences. It has

an infinite number of possible endings. How you interact is

important, some are experimenting with remote sensing to move their

stories along. Another team has stories triggered by people huddling

together. It is a new take on social gaming. After five days of late

nights, the teams take to the stage to show their creations. This is

what dark matter looks like. When a person signs on, the Twitter profile

is activated. It shows what you can get when you mix digital

storytellers and scientists together, and bombard them with

Coffey and a creative particle accelerator `` coffee. To follow or

not to follow? That is the question that Twitter aficionados are

constantly debating. Kate Russell is no different, but she has an

application to help are the site. We would expect nothing less. He she is

now, with Webscape. The average Twitter user follows 102

accounts, but some are following thousands. If that sounds like you,

ManageFlitter can help you see the birds in the flock by breaking down

your following an follower list into more manageable chunks, revealing

who is engaged with you and who is just deadwood. Some Twitter follow

lists have become completely unmanageable. With thousands of

people to sort through. It can make a prospect of spring cleaning the

dead, in active and pointless accounts out just to be a chore to

even start thinking about. With batch on following you can quickly

clean up your account. There is additional analytics and reporting,

plus engagement tools that will reveal which of the accounts you

follow our spam, which are talkative, in active, or not

following you back. There is a bunch of other interesting output for the

seriously social. Another useful iPhone app if you have a busy life

is Wibbitz. It turns articles from top new sources in category set by

you into short video summaries. It pulls out the key facts and

highlights so you can catch up in a flash, even listening to the audio

when you are out on a run will walk into the station. If all of those

apps have fired `` fried your brain, why not relax and feed the fish over

at a `` acquired. Aquard.io. Some geeky details about the system, it

uses a board to operate an automatic feeder that rotates and drops food

whenever he user interacts. It is ingenious, and as a bonus, it means

the developers never have to remember to feed the fish again. Now

that spring is well and truly here, get ready for the invasion of the

spiders. This thought is enough to send some people diving back under

the duvet, in fact, 60% of people in the UK alone admit to having a fear

of spiders. Phobia free is a an iPhone app that will help you

conquer your Demon is. It slowly introduces you to cute, colourful

and eventually convincing creatures on your screen.

week's video of the week should help week's video of the week should help

bring things into perspective. Metropolis to is by video `` ATV Neo

video channel. It is the coolest I have ever seen. My little boy loves

that video, and he is a chip off the old block. Your Webscape suggestions

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tech news on our website. That is it for now, thank you for watching and

see you next time. We have seen some fine spring

weather over the past few days, but the weekend promises mixed fortunes

in terms of weather across the UK. In the north, it will be breezy and

blustery, with rain at times. Further south, it is looking largely

dry with decent spells of sunshine. A chilly start