23/08/2014 Click

executed a number of Palestinians, accused of collaborating with Israel

in Gaza. Meanwhile, a rocket has killed a four`year`old Israeli boy.

Benjamin Netanyahu has promised a harsh response. Now, it is time for

Click. I really should not be telling you

this but it really is earthshattering news. I cannot tell

you. I cannot! I cannot! OK, what is happening is this. The iPhone is

going to... This week on Click, I would let you

know but perhaps it is better hearing it from this man. We visit

the world 's most notorious phone leaker in Philadelphia. Spoiler

alert! We find out what cyclists make of the latest bike tech. And we

find out what happens when you try to play the whole internet. All of

that plus how to stay safe online in Webscape. Welcome to Click. Over the

coming weeks, we will see a number of properly big tech announcements.

These days, that usually means new smartphones. We have the imminent

launch of the iPhone six lost a number of announcements from Samsung

and Sony, all of which we will cover here. `` plus a number of

announcements. The thing is that these days, despite the best efforts

of the big players in tech, we know exactly what is going to be

announced long in advance of these showpiece launches because full

weeks, if not months in advance, pictures and details have been drip

fed by leakers to their hungry online audiences. Chief among them

is Evan Blass, who has brought us a virtual torrent of the latest

prerelease specifications for a number of years. That is until very

recently, when completely out of the blue, he wrote on Twitter that he

was retiring. The reclusive figure has never appeared on camera before

until we paid him a visit in Philadelphia. Notorius, Inverness,

prolific... In famous. He has near legendary status online. Leaking is

very competitive but he is top dog. Any prediction he makes is treated

basically as fact by tech journalists the world over. And this

is mission control, where Evan Blass sits for up to 22 hours per day,

gathering information from his closely guarded network of sources.

Sometimes I get neck strain over here because this is my instant

messaging monitor and I can spend 20 minutes to half an hour instant

messaging and then suddenly, oh, no, crook neck. Evan Blass suffers from

multiple sclerosis, so moving around is extremely painful for him. Most

of his life is spent online. There is a lot of work that goes into even

the shortest leaks but it does not look that way when they are on

Twitter. It looks like it takes five minutes. My favourite nickname is

the one they have, for me in China. They call me the great God. He

refuses to reveal how he gets all his information but it is clear he

has informants within the industry. When you leak something, you are not

only that in for yourself and for your source as well. You are

basically saying that you have a good source and you believe this

person enough to put the information out there. It all started with

consumer tech show CES in January, 2011. To the crowd, he revealed this

days before the launch. Is leaking Korea had begun. There is great

satisfaction in seeing some new blueprint or some story you made up

spread around the world. Some manufacturers are furious about his

leaks but others have had a much more surviving `` surprising

reaction. Companies say they are never happy with leak but that is

not true. I have received controlled leaks. That is why a phone

manufacturer, if they tell you that they hate leaks, that leaks are

always damaging to them, they are not being truthful because more than

one, more than two, had given me material to leak. Any advanced

information about Apple always makes people go bananas, confusingly. It

goes without saying that Evan Blass have known for months about Apple's

announcements scheduled for September. I think there will be two

iPhone models. I have information to that effect. They will be 4.7 inches

and 5.5 inches. That has been reported widely. Many of the parts

have already been leaked out of the Chinese factories where the phones

are made. The biggest danger of all is the people who make the least

amount of money, the workers in the Chinese factories. They probably get

can sneak something out of the factory. A picture of an upcoming

iPhone display is going to be very, very popular, because it tells you

so much about what will be like. I woke up in a bunch of pain, unlike,

oh, oh... As well as coping with multiple sclerosis, Evan Blass also

has problems sleeping. While his insomnia might worsen his help, he

does believe it keeps him productive. When you have a disease

that suddenly starts getting worse and does not get better, you feel

like you are dying and when you feel like you are dying, you are willing

to do certain things like take on a job that probably does not have a

real future. I have been sleeping a little better now that I'm not

leaking any more. Evan Blass moved closer to his parents last year and

they seem proud, having a famous tester for a son. We have always

waited for him to find his something that he loved doing. And something

he was passionate about. And that was the leaking. And we were

thrilled. And I would check every day. I'm not on Twitter but I would

go on his Evleaks page to see what was going on, so it felt like being

in touch. I started Evleaks so I could keep my name out there. I was

the only person who tried to be a professional leaker. Even though I

was not making enough money for a full`time job, I decided to make it

my full time job and decided to live on whatever money I could scrape out

of it. I needed it to be out there that I had stopped. Now, there is no

more leaking. I would not consider a leak now stop even though people

still send me stuff, I say no thank you or please send it to another

site or something else because I have no use for it. I don't really

care about my name is associated with the leaks.

It always will be and now, it will be a legacy, I guess. Evan Blass

will stop interesting. Your thoughts? We won't tell a soul.

Next, this week's tech news. Twitter is to start removing the issues ``

images of deceased people at the request of family members. The

company says it will consider intervening in cases where critical

injury occurs to the deceased moments before or after their

death. The news comes after Robin Williams's grieving daughter was

haunted on the site over her father's suicide and the Islamic

State group released a video of the killing of James Foley. Cars that

talk to each other. Buckle up, it might not be as crazy as it sounds.

The Obama administration has announced it is taking the first

death in requiring all future cars be equipped with tech that allows

vehicles to send each other so. The technology would use radio signals

to transmit the car's edition and speed, which would then be picked up

by other similarly equipped vehicles and alert drivers to potential

collisions. Watch out, Robert Downey Jr, there could be a new iron man in

town. The US. Navy will test two exoskeleton suits for potential use

in its shipyards. It is hoped the lightweight suits will be used for

jobs that require the use of heavy tools over extended periods of time

and potentially allow users to list items up to 36 pounds. But if they

had watched a show from Japan last year, they could have seen how a

real expert does it. A few weeks ago, we brought you some of the

latest electric bikes. If you are a cyclist and you prefer

to use your own pedal power to work up a sweat, there are still plenty

of devices around to help keep you safe and add a bit of tech to the

experience. We tracked down some keen cyclist to put some of them to

the test. Cycle polo. Informal, urban, and as these people told me,

still being made up as they go along. For these players, cycling is

not just about sport. It is also their chosen method of transport

everyday. Who better to test the latest urban cycling tech with? We

got our hands on some innovative devices and prototypes page, so

designs and functionality are not yet reflected. I have some toys I

would like to put the test. As a, being seen is vital. These lights

that can be worn on any backpack can help. It feels like I'm wearing a

day pack. I believe you are about to turn right. I know the control is

working but I do not know if the backpack is working. It could be my

only way of indicating and I'm trusting that it works. Perhaps

these clubs will fare better. The idea is that you hold your hand up

to indicate and as soon as you make that gesture, it points and arrow.

They look like decent gloves. What I like is that it does not stop you

from doing what you are taught to do but it accentuates it. What did you

think's easy to use. I have never indicated but found people cannot

see. For those cyclists who say it is everyone else on the road that is

the problem, this is your chance to prove it or not. This backlighting

camera records into our lips everything that is going on behind

you. It has a 130 degrees wide angle lens, five hours battery life and

records two hours of timestamps footage. The recordings continue

really good, overwriting earlier footage, so you always have your

last two hours of video stored. Would you use one? I'm not sure I

would feel the need to always feel behind me. It does not seem bright

enough for me. It's only bright if you are looking directly at it. What

is it? Even in fog, this radar once a rider of what is going on up to

140 metres behind them. As a speedy vehicle approaches, not only does

the backlight flashed one of the bicycle's presents but once the

cyclist of a potential hazard via the light panel in front of them.

Would you want to use it in the real world? Probably not. It stops you

thinking about looking behind you. You always have to make those

checks. Is not as good as a mirror. Bicycle theft is that the technology

is trying to fight as well. This lock only works using your

smartphone. It's embedded sensors can even alert you if someone is

tampering with the bike. And GPS tracking means that if it does get

taken, you should know where to find it. Sometimes your phone runs out of

batteries and I would be worried about that. The most important thing

about a bike lock is how easy it is to cut through. Maybe you feel your

bike could do more for you like charger mobile phone. Let's look at

what this does. This USB charger gets its power from peddling,

allowing you to charge of devices while on the go. That is wicked!

Will did you think? This is a great idea. It's useful and does not

affect the functionality of the bicycle at all. Sometimes you might

not have access to a PowerPoint. And there is a removable battery pack,

giving someone who does not have access to a PowerPoint outlet or

computer the chance to charge something on the go as well. Mixed

reactions from the serious cyclists but it's not until the finished

products are available that we will see if the occasional cyclist feel

the same. Take a look at this. It is not

space, but data visualisation. This maps what is happening on Twitter

during the Israel and Gaza conflict. As messy as this is, the

relationships are organised. They reflect society. What do you analyse

when you look at the Twitter feeds? A look at network structure and

understand communities within social networks. So how are people

interconnected on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. How does that affect

how information spreads? Is there faster and better information flow

and a certain structure into that this? Gilad Looked at the results on

Twitter TV bombing of a UN school in Gaza? You can look at regions that

are much more connected within the region and identifying these

communities. That is represented by the colours of the crop. The closer

together the notes are, the more connections. Green represents pro`

Palestinian activists. Great is international media, which Gilad

says is more sympathetic to the Palestinian narrative. Blew our

Conservatives who are pro` Israeli. `` blue. In terms of this event,

anyone who reports the facts of what we know, how many people died,

what's the damage was, is put on the pro` Palestinian side of your crop.

Anyone who either doesn't report that all reports the IDF line is put

on the pro` Israeli line. Do you think that is too simplistic for

this complex and very emotive subject? The UN example is one of

many examples reported around these events where systematically various

mainstream Israeli media did not put any emphasis on reporting

Palestinian casualties. His date visualisation says that the left

wing Israeli news source is having the most potential bridging bias and

barriers because it has the most connections. He believes that social

network connections are designed to reinforce rather than challenge our

views. We are most likely to talk to people like us. We are most likely

to see content that reinforces what we already believe. What we want to

believe. The hope was that the Internet and social networks could

be a great equaliser, where Israelis and Palestinians could finally

connect. That is not happening. Fascinating stuff will stop next up,

a fascinating project. What happens when you cross a computer programmer

with a musical keyboard? The answer is a lot of noise from all angles. A

reporter gets hands`on with what can only be described

where the sound would be coming from artist.

where the sound would be coming from where it is coming from the world.

It's the sound is coming from Asia or Africa or South America, you

would hear it here. I love the idea that there is regular happening all

the time. Around the world, there is a world of sound. I wrote software

that this to streams and finds notes on it. When I play a note on the

keyboard, this is a B`flat, my favourite, it takes sounds from

radio stations all over the world that sound like a B`flat and they

get played through a speaker that is based on that location. You get the

idea of the music around you. There is also a screen that shows where

that sound have come from. The whole thing uses Internet radio to get the

sound and the equivalent of a guitar tuner to identify what

note it is on. This is part of an exhibition that Google now is

enthusiastic about as they have funded for art projects in this

room. `` four. Perhaps they are hoping that the coolness will rob.

It is not about being called. `` cool. People think about someone

plugging away at the keyboard. Young people come here on BC that code

means that you can have butterflies on a screen and you complete the

radio sessions of world. You change perceptions of what do you think it

is and what it is all about. This is an art installation, but you

contribute play it as a musician. In saying that, it is a feat of

engineering. There is something joyful about playing the music

around the world. I'll report on a musical journey around the world

without having to leave London. That is how we like it. The web is an

amazing playground, but is difficult to know how to stay safe and some

people, it is more of challenge. To our reporter. Online safety is a

complex issue. If you are looking after young people with autism

spectrum conditions, it is especially so because of the social

awareness and payments sometimes caused by disorder. `` impairments.

There is an online took it designed to give teachers and carries the

building blocks for a tailored approach to safety for those with

autism conditions. As well as advice for carers and educators, there are

activities to reinforce lessons. The toolkit handles the issues well, it

covers sensitive topics like cyber`bullying, contact by strangers

and exposure to inappropriate content without being alarmist or

getting too technical. Hopefully, everyone can enjoy the enriching

experiences online in a safe and happy environment.

By all transfer between iPhone and PC has always been a bit of a pain.

`` file transfer. Pocket Drive Texas that. It is a breeze to set up with

just a couple of clicks. It is wireless and there is no need for

cables to connect it. You can use it to listen to me sick, watch videos,

reading documents and even to unlock files. Another neat way to share

files between devices is to send anywhere, EPA to pare file transfer

service that works to any browser and has free apps for a less, and

wrote and chrome. `` IOS. The difference between peer to peer is

that the file goes straight down the pipe. Both need to be connected and

running for the transfer to happen. You get a temporary six digit code,

which the recipient must enter into their device to access the file.

There are a few services like this. We looked at one for photo sharing

and Whatsapp. It is supposed to preserve the quality of image files

while letting users send large batches of data. More than 100

photos or two gig of data at a time. Your suggestions for sites and apps

are greatly received. You can get in touch with us. Thank you for

watching. The next time. `` see you next time.

For many of us, this weekend is a bank holiday. There will be

sunshine, although it will be chilly at night. On Monday, they will be a

change of pressure. It will be