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it's time for Click.

This week, spotting fake news and

debunking the people in power.

Wondering if the ruins. And

something wicked this week comes.

Going into space has long been the

dream of many a sci-fi fan and for

one BBC presenter that dream is

about to come true. In a world first

for the broadcast industry, Spencer

Kelly, who fronts the BBC technology

programme Click, has been accepted

by NASA to visit and report from

International Space Station. During

his stay onboard he will present

several episodes of Click. He says

he has always harboured ambitions to

leave planet Earth and will test how

the latest technology performs in

zero gravity. He says he looking

forward to the months of training

ahead of him.

That's not true. I'm

so sorry. That shouldn't be on the

autocue. That's my Christmas fantasy

list.

That's fake news! We are

fighting the fake news. It's fake,

phoney.

The fake media tried to

stop... Everyone is using the term

these days. The problem is it now

seems to mean anything from actual

lives to something you simply don't

agree with. And the technology world

is anguishing over how to use taught

that from fiction. From opinion,

from satire, from highly skewed and

misleading headlines... As a result,

fact checking organisations are now

working to counter the fake news of

that. The first draft coalition

operates around the world and in

Germany it is working alongside

journalists from a group to help

improve online transparency. In the

run-up to the recent election here

they published a daily news --

newsletter, looking at Storey

suspected to be false or misleading.

You look at an incident. Is what is

being claimed in the captions

descriptions what is actually being

insinuated? One which showed a

couple of maybe not traditional

northern European skinhead guys

waving passports. This was claimed

to be smug immigrants tramping all

over German people's feelings.

The

tweets said they were insulting

local Germans and provoking them.

Using simple tools such as reverse

image searches to verify the

original sources of videos and in

this case a facility called watch

frame by frame, journalists were

able to identify the street name.

The thing that helped me if there is

a police officer walking through the

video, back year.

After locating the

police court in question they were

able to get an eyewitness account of

what happened, not just in front of

the camera but also behind.

Actually

we discovered that behind the camera

there are like 100 people insulting

these three to four guys in the

first place.

They were if anything

just reacting.

Another story

debunked by the group involved what

looked like a number of Muslims

standing at a bus stop.

The headline

was, this is how Islamic society or

an Islamic stick society would look

like or does look like and we are

heading to this.

We are taking a

closer look at this... Narrowing

down where buses met, journalists

were able to pinpoint the spot and

the fact that the group had just

come out of a Christian church.

They

confirmed that they were refugees

and they know the guys in the BDO

and they were just coming back from

a baptism and they were trying to

celebrate the baptism and were just

heading for lunch.

So this was

really misleading information and

trying to manipulate people and make

them worried about whether we are

overruled by other cultures.

The

problem is that anything can look

believable when it is published

online. And there is an ongoing

debate about whether the platforms

on which the stories are published

should be the ones to police them.

Making sure that quality content and

quality journalism is on top is a

big mission. So that's why we work

very closely with fact checking

organisations and media

organisations around the world. Just

a couple of months ago we changed

our ads policy around misleading

news websites.

The ends are fighting

the rising tide of fake news, one

thing is for certain. Ultimately we

are going to need an automated fact

checking system. Back in the UK, a

stones throw from Westminster lies

full fact. This is an organisation

that first came to the public

attention around the time of the EU

referendum. These guys have some

pretty interesting fact checking

tools. In this session of Prime

Minister's Questions, the group is

verifying claims using a mixture of

manual and automated fact checking.

One of the automated tools being

developed looks at the trends behind

a claim such as where and how many

times any statement was repeated.

Another tool will take text from TV

subtitles and check it off in real

time against reliable databases,

such as the office of national

statistics. Using a combination of

AI and machine learning, the

algorithm will perform calculations

and check facts with primary

sources. Eventually it could be used

in a scenario such as this.

There

are 10,000 more training places

available for nurses in the NHS, but

the right honourable gentleman...

That's not right. That's an ambition

for 2020 it is currently not true.

How cool would it be to debunk

claims like that on the spot? At the

system would be able to challenge

more subtle claims with lots of

caveats, such as the statement of

the NHS is in crisis. Nor will it

provide simple yes and no answers.

GDP is rising. It's kind of like

shazam full-backs. -- for facts. The

tool that I most excited about is

the text checking. When somebody is

talking live and it takes you in

real time to the primary sources. So

if a journalist is in a press

conference or if they are

interviewing someone, they can see

straightaway if there is something

that the person in front of them has

said is true or false, which is

particularly cool.

I so want that.

Have you used it? I haven't used it

in anger yet.

When will it be ready?

It's ready now, but it can only do

one sentence at a time.

You think

public figures will have to change

the way they behave?

There's no

debate that can happen eventually

without hitting on numbers and its

port and they are correct and aren't

being neglected. That's the place we

are starting from in the world we

want to create.

From fakery of news to fakery of

images now. That's not exactly the

spin that Adobe would like us to put

on the way its products are used,

but at an event in Las Vegas it has

just unveiled some pretty nifty

tools to do just that. We sent

Richard Taylor along to have a look.

12,000 creatives under one roof, all

geared up to find out what's next

from the up that literally invented

photo shopping. The arms are, AI as

we've never known it before. -- the

answer. Take this image of Denver

where an entire neighbourhood is

expunged in a flash and replaced

with something more aesthetically

pleasing, instead of just trying to

fill in the area with surrounding

pixels the software can now extract

meaning from the image and make a

substitute from its library of 100

million others. A similar principle

is at play here. The plaster now

intelligently removed as the

software can understand the

protrusion in the middle of

someone's face as a nose. And see

you want to remove something or

someone from a video. Right now you

could try it frame by painstaking

frame. The chance is the result

would look crude. But this demo is

real. A research product we may see

in a future version of Adobe's

Redox. In this era of fake news the

invocations of being able to easily

fool your audience are of course

potentially troublesome, but Adobe

is more interested in the creative

potential.

We are trying to

reimagine the entire creative

process so you can create the way

you want. Machines can see patterns

and possibilities that we may not be

able to see immediately.

Adobe says

AIA should allow creatives more time

for artistic expression and to be

creative rather than doing boring

and repetitive tasks. -- AI. They

say the creative process should be

more efficient and AI can

potentially even second-guess our

next moves. To illustrate, check out

this photo shop at a type which has

Adobe's gritty creative resistance

built in.

Find some images based on

my sketch.

And within seconds,

others Sapir based on your very

rough sketch of a woman in a

spaceship. What you might we

thinking all of this is pretty

similar to the AI used by Google and

Apple.

We have decades and decades

of understanding of how people use

our tools. When one of the best

creative artists launches photo shop

and they know what's creatively

pleasing and aesthetically pleasing,

we are learning from that. So we are

not training on just images of cats

or dogs, we are training with the

world's best people.

I'm certainly

impressed at how the AIA could for

example take an image of me and

within seconds returned matches and

then further refine them. -- AI. The

TEC also understands 3D, you don't

have to be another is the do

understand it. Few people would

argue AI is fantastic in terms of

creating efficiencies, at

overreliance on our machines instead

of amplifying the creative process

could eventually end up supplanting

it.

I actually don't think so.

Creatives are distracted by all of

the things that take multiple steps,

make them suddenly moved out of a

right brain mode into a procedural

left brain mode. I think AI and are

being this news at the elbow.

And

that's the prevailing view amongst

creatives here, keen to embrace the

possibilities of an AI world.

Welcome to the week in TEC. It was

the week that the Hawaiian city of

Honolulu began fining people might

$9 for paying too much attention to

their smartphone while crossing the

road. Microsoft announced it has

stopped manufacturing its motion

sensing controller. And Japanese

company Toyota showed up a concept

car with the airbags on the outside

in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Nissan revealed

the artificially created noise its

electric cars will permit. US

authorities are insisting all hybrid

and electric cars will have to emit

sound for safety reasons. Amazon now

wants to enter its customers homes

when making deliveries. The system

is called Amazon Key. Trustworthy

types who sign up will allow

deliveries to be left inside their

homes. Suspicious people will be

able to view the delivery on a smart

camera that they've left at home.

What could possibly go wrong? And

creepy or cute? You decide. Sony has

developed a new winking robot

assistants. The robot communicate

with users using endearing gestures.

It is hoping the cuteness will

challenge Amazon's Echo range. And

researchers at Harvard have

developed a tiny robot that can swim

and flight. It is flapping wings

argues to propel it around when it

is underwater. The creators hope one

day similar technology could be used

in search and rescue robots.

This is art in the 21st-century.

Trust me, it is.

And it actually looks and sounds

great when you are standing in the

middle. I'm thinking it has a

specific sound. The buzzing sound is

the electric current that lights the

LED is and it is being translated

into a kind of compositional

concert. It's got its own groove to

it. I like it. This week I'm

wandering the halls of a brand-new

installation in the heart of London.

It's called Everything At Once. And

if it doesn't actually have

everything, it certainly has a lot.

It's a mixture of dynamic works like

the black pot and static pieces by

renowned artists like Ai Weiwei and

a niche Cabu. There are also

faceless voices describing their

near death experiences. -- Anish

Kapoor.

I was in hospital and my

heart stopped beating.

The

centrepiece of the exhibition is

even more unsettling. I'm about to

be subjected to intensely fast

flashing images. Now, if you'd

rather not see them, please look

away now and come back in a couple

of minutes. Because I'm about to

walk through and in test pattern

number 12. It's by a Japanese

electric artist. The experiences

overwhelming. The video moves that

more than 100 frames a second and in

fact we've had to doctor our footage

in order to be allowed to show it on

TV. The video frame rate is so high

that the black and light is

flickering incredibly fast. I can

actually see colours in between the

black and light, they're moving so

fast, there's greys, I'm starting to

see yellow and red, maybe that's

just because my eyes are exploding,

I don't know. Ikeda has taken

digital files and broken them down

into their native zeros and ones.

It's these binary patterns that are

then blasted onto the viewer. After

that, time for a drink in a

nightclub called Ruin. Only it looks

like I've arrived after the after

party.

Now, earlier we were looking at

attempts to combat fake news and so

often these days that means the US

elections, Russia and the like. But

it's actually a problem all around

the world in different ways. David

Reid has been looking at the

particular issues in India.

This summer mob violence in the

eastern state of dark and was

sparked by a rumour on WhatsApp that

child abductors were targeting a

tribal community. The story wasn't

true but still seven people died in

violence. It doesn't take much here

for long simmering conflicts to boil

over and fake news like this can be

just the trigger for it. Stories

like these are very powerful and can

potentially threaten India's often

temperatures communal relations. So

much so that now even the police are

getting involved in tackling fake

news.

I visited one of the country's mein

cyber crime units in Hyderabad, the

capital of the southern state of

telling Ghana. Here cyber cops are

worried about the threat to law and

order by fake stories with the

potential to spark riots. Police

here in best false and inflammatory

stories, try to get them taken down

and then attempt to prosecute those

producing them, but much of India's

fake news is spread through the

mobile communication platform

WhatsApp and because it's encrypted,

for police here it's a wall.

It

appears to be a communication

problem with WhatsApp, we try with

WhatsApp and they say it's not a

messaging facility. We need a date

and time stamp to prove a case, so

that's also not there.

Something like 200 meal and people

in India use WhatsApp. For some the

story shared on the platform are

there only or main source of news.

If the police are hitting a road

black tarmac block with WhatsApp's

end to end encryption, others are

trying to utilise fake stories by

debunking them. This man is based in

Gujarat. This website out News roots

out and reveals what's wrong on the

web.

My guess is it often starts on

WhatsApp because those who put it on

WhatsApp know it's difficult to

track them down. The people who

circulate these videos, they are

very well aware that it's a fake

video. There's no doubt.

Videos like

this one purported to show a woman

being killed in India by a Muslim

mob.

It's one of the most grotesque,

stomach churning videos you will

see.

But the harrowing incident it

the Picts actually took place in

central America.

This video was easy

to debunk. For a lot of videos what

we do is break it up into friends,

we use Google reverse image search

and the first Google result is that

of this girl who was killed in

Guatemala. She was accused of being

an accomplice in a murder, she got

caught in a mob and she died.

And

yet many who saw the video took its

claims to be true. The reason is

that in India hundreds of millions

are encountering the Internet for

the first time and they lack the

media literacy to assess if the news

is actually true.

We have more than

400 million mobile Internet users.

50% of them are using WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is the main medium for

promoting the fake news. But how

many people are aware of the stuff

they are forwarding weather it is

true or not and weather it's a

problem or not, we are not equipped

to deal with that and this is an

epidemic like situation.

It's still

early days for the Internet in India

and as police and journalists battle

the fake content that can trigger

conflict, many are still prone to

manipulation from the lies in their

inbox. That was David in India.

Now, with Halloween fast

approaching, there are plenty of

scary movies around but none of them

will be as immersive as a virtual

reality horror show. And that's the

event that we've sent Nick quip to

in Covent Garden.

On the way to see a film, a movie,

but not as we need know it, in

virtual reality. I think this is 68

A common not your standard cinema.

Cinemas, downstairs. There's people

down there wearing VI headsets.

Virtual reality film is super

exciting but right now you can only

enjoy it in the comfort of your own

home and it's not a social

experience, we want to bring people

together so they can enjoy BR with

their friends, family and partner.

Where am I sitting? Excellent. Can

we get any popcorn? Up and over...

Popcorn, excellent. Everyone ready

to go?

Yes.

Let's do it! Showtime!

Scary suburbia. I'm looking down, I

don't have any legs or anything, I'm

not a person... I've been directed

to go down the debt. Oh my goodness!

That is It down the drain. Are just

left that scene.

Look behind you...

A bit unnerving!

Someone has just

appeared in front of me. OK.

We've

got a collection of films five to

ten minutes each and we're showing

them back-to-back in A40 minute

montage.

It's

them back-to-back in A40 minute

montage.

It's, it the firstly are

cinema pop-up and it's not cutting

hardware but they have got custom...

People can have the shared cinema

experience of being shocked all at

the same time.

Lies is not good. This is going to

end well, this is going to end very

well.

I'm burning alive. With several

showings starting at the top of the

hour, the headsets need to be taken

away for charging. It's all very

pop-up. But the chaps hope it will

get another hearts racing so they

can open up a permanently are cinema

later this year. Is this all just a

novelty, though?

This is kind of a

nightclub in Glasgow. OK, that's

horrendous. Horrendous! That's

enough.

Actually it was quite fun to

bring a group of friends together.

To go out and have a shared

experience, another group is coming

in right now? OK.

Masters of

turnaround.

We'd better be on our

way. Nick Kwek, always up for an

experience and regularly needing a

lie down after a shoot because of

it. That's it from me Ruin for this

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