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This week, the app that helps record

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As International Women's Day was

marked this week, it brought with it

further focus on the many issues

still to be faced in bringing about

true gender equality in all walks of

life. The technology industry, of

course, has its own issues, as we

will hear later. Silicon Valley's

culture and its treatment of women

raises a lot of questions. But tech

can also be a force for good. It has

been just six months or so since the

Me Too movement gave a voice to so

many women around the world, who

used social media to expose just how

widespread sexual harassment and

assault is. Many women feel that

reporting sexual assault can also be

really traumatic, and the

experiences of some women in Silicon

Valley had spurred them to create

something that may make that just a

little bit easier. Our correspondent

has travelled to Stanford University

to meet survivors of sexual abuse,

and the creators of Callisto. Every

tattoo tells a story. For this

Stanford University student, the

story is bittersweet. She was one of

50 sexual assault survivors invited

to share the stage with Lady Gaga

during the 2016 Oscars.

While we

were rehearsing, I remember at one

point we were all crying and hugging

each other, and someone just said we

need to get a tattoo to commemorate

this and to give us strength.

Something to look at when you are

feeling down, and you know that

you're alone.

Lin says that a few

days after she was assaulted by a

friend in 2015, she told the title

nine office which investigate sexual

misconduct.

I decided to report

because I didn't want him to do it

to anyone else, and later I did find

out that he had done a lot of... A

lot of harassment, stalking, and

also assault on someone else.

What

was that experience like?

It was

awful. My GPA dropped down, and I

was fighting with the school back

and forth every single hour of every

single day.

Lin, now an activist,

wants greater transparency in the

adjudication process.

They are

trying to cover up the number of

sexual assault that happen on their

campus, because that makes your

university look safer. It's better

for your public relations.

Stanford

told Click...

Stanford changed its title nine

process in 2016, and has begun

reporting case numbers. In the US,

one in five women is sexually

assaulted while in college.

I was

sexually assaulted by a friend. Over

a year after that happened, I

decided to report my assault, and I

ended up finding the process of

reporting to be more traumatic than

the event itself. Feeling not

believed by the people who I thought

were there to protect me was

incredibly destabilising.

Jessica

Lad's ordeal spurred her to create

Callisto, so survivors would have a

way of reporting sexual assault.

They can have a timestamp, doesn't

have to go anywhere if they don't

want to, send it to authorities in

their school, or three, just say

what happened to them for now but

report electronically if someone

else makes the same assailant.

You

can think of it as an international

information as scroat agency.

Students often report to protect

others. This matching feature helps

do that by detecting repeat

offenders.

People might use

different names, they may look

different. How do you make sure you

have got the right person? We ask

victims to put in not just the name

of their perpetrator, but also a

series of unique identifiers.

Currently, Facebook profiles I used

to match. Some students want more

ways to idea, and Callisto may add

mobile numbers and e-mail addresses

in the future. 12 US colleges use

Callisto. The University of San

Francisco was the first.

We knew

students won't reporting. If you

look at our numbers from once we

first started with Callisto, three

years ago, to now, there is

definitely an increase in reporting.

Callisto allows for our students to

write what happened, to write about

the incident. And sometimes just

riding your perpetrator's name gives

people power.

Seeing the need for

Callisto, she led an effort to bring

it to Stanford.

It is just available

24 - seven, and they have seen

spikes in usage during times like

spring break, when the title nine

office might not be available, but

students wanted to file a report, or

during the weekend, when no one is

staffing.

With Callisto, survivors

recount what happened at the own

pace, privately.

Often victims

including in-person interviews what

is incredible, so they want to fill

in the details and tell a wonderful

story arc. At that is not how memory

works, and that is particularly not

how memory works in the event of

trauma. So being able to allow

somebody to say I don't know the

centre, I am not sure that, and only

record think that they are sure of,

is really essential to make sure

that that time stamped record isn't

later used against them.

Students

must create a username, password and

pass phrase that be recovered. Not

quite a one click sign up. That

deters some users. For Callisto, it

ensures drivers see.

Because then we

would have to be storing the

password, which means that we could

potentially decrypt the data, and we

want to make sure that even we can't

view it.

Since students choose

whether to report assaults, some

records are never seen by schools.

They are still useful.

We provide

our institutions with at an

aggregate data report that gives

them a better sense of what is

happening in that record, what type

of years are assault reporting, what

classy as are involved?

Others are

also working to make reporting less

daunting. The spot app creates a

record from the user's conversation

with a chat bot, while all will let

them report electronically. Lin is

in short electronic reporting would

have changed her was handled, but

she see the potential.

What I think

Callisto is great for is to track

perpetrators, if they decide to

apply for grad school or transfer

schools, I think that is where this

can really come in and have a very

powerful effect.

as we grow, we want

to create one system, one database

that allows us to track any

perpetrator, even as they move

through space and time. Which would

give survivors away to find out if

there are seven is a repeat

offender, something Jessica Ladd

says she wonders to this day. That

was Sumi Das, at Stanford

University. Now, while Callisto was

created a team of mostly women, that

is rare. Even right here in Silicon

Valley. Whenever I have been to

visit, I have found it all too easy

to think of the valley as sharing

the Progressive values of San

Francisco, where all colours and

genders seem welcome. But the people

I have met, those in charge of the

start-ups and attack giants, have

been mainly men. It is quite obvious

to us that women are

underrepresented here, and there are

those who feel that Silicon Valley

is just as full of sexism and

masculine culture as anywhere else.

It is the social challenge...

Emily

Chang is a San Francisco journalist,

and a host of Bloomberg Technology.

And in her new book, Brotopia, she

has written about the industry that

has always self-selected for men.

First came the antisocial nerd who

suddenly became part of the ruling

class, and now she says it is the

time of the cocky, self-confident

risk taker, the bro.

Silicon Valley

is the heart of the most powerful

industry in the world, and that is

the technology industry. This is a

world that is controlling what we

see, what we read, how we shop, how

we communicate, how we get around.

The reality is, the exclusion from

this incredible and aggressive

industry was not inevitable. It

didn't have to be this way. I think

of all the women out there who might

have started the next Facebook or

the next Google or the next Apple,

but never got the chance because

they didn't look the part. And that

is something that needs to change.

Women hold just 25% of jobs across

the computing industry. They account

for 7% of investors. Women led

companies get just 2% of venture

capital funding. The most important

thing that we need to do is to

acknowledge that Silicon Valley has

become toxic for women. So what is

bro culture? Well, it is exactly

what it sounds like. Fratty parties,

beer, behaviour that is alienating

towards women. I had 12 women over

at my home most them engineers who

work at companies like Uber and

Google and the Uber engineers told

me they would often be invited to

strip clubs and bondage clubs in the

middle of the day, and so much of

the working culture gets done

outside of the office, so at the

bar, at the conference, in a hotel

lobby, and they are stuck in sort of

an impossible Catch-22. If they

attend, they are disrespected and

discredited. If they don't, they are

shut out of important business and

networking opportunities, because

very powerful people, very powerful

men, are at these parties. So many

female entrepreneurs that I have

spoken to have not just one story,

but several stories to tell about

how an investor has crossed a line.

You know, one of the most sort of

egregious examples that I have found

is an investor who... A very

prominent investor in countries to

make companies like Twitter and Uber

who often hosted hot tub parties at

his home. Well, what female driven

wants to get in a hot tub and future

business while wearing a bikini and

drinking beer? These are the kinds

of activities that have been very

alienating the women, and

unfortunately have created a very

unlevel playing field in Silicon

Valley. I think about how different

the world might be if women had been

at the creation of some of these

companies from the start. I sat down

with Twitter co-founder Ed Williams,

and I asked him, F women had been

involved in the founding of Twitter,

would online harassment and trolling

be such a problem? And he said he

doesn't think so. They were thinking

about that when they were building

Twitter. They were thinking about

all the wonderful and amazing things

that can be done with Twitter, they

won't thinking about how it can be

used to send death threats or rape

threats. And as a result, online

harassment is one of the biggest

problems plaguing internet today. If

women had been more involved in

building these products, and

building these services, maybe

online harassment and trolling

wouldn't be such a problem. I fully

believe that the people who have

already changed the world in so many

wondrous ways, the people who are

taking us to Mars, the people who

are building self driving cars, the

people who have given us right at

the push of a button, if they can do

all that, they can change this too.

Hello, and welcome to the week

intact. It was the week that Sony

blocked the videogame Super Seducer

for being released on the

PlayStation 4. It has been

criticised as too sleazy and for

promoting toxic behaviour. Dyson

announced they will not be making

plug-in vacuum cleaners any more,

they will be working on their

cordless range. The dating app

Bumble has been band uses from

posing with guns, though an

exception has been made for military

and law enforcement. And a robot

managed to solve a Rubik 's cube

under a second. Link you will miss

it. Here it is in slow mode. It was

the week that mobile companies Three

and Vodafone came under

investigation over the way they

handle data on their network. Com is

looking at whether they are

intentionally slowing down internet

speeds while customers are abroad.

Internet others invaded New York's

Museum of modern Art, transforming

the Jackson Pollock room into their

own augmented reality gallery

without the museum's permission. The

project was called hello, we are

from the internet. And finally,

Flippy the robot has been working at

a restaurant in Los Angeles. Their

job, as you guessed it, is to flip

burgers. Using imaging and heat

sensing to flip, Flippy is being

installed at 50 locations, but it is

not cheap, at $60,000 a robot. Hope

those burgers taste good.

The idea of personalised or

precision medicine is really gaining

ground, and in the not too distant

future, every single time we're

prescribed something, exactly what

that is could be dependent on our

height, weight, sex and even our

genetic make up.

Personalising your medication

doesn't always need complex

biomedical data to be beneficial,

though. What I have here is the Beta

version of the app. You input your

data first, your height, your

weight, your sex and details of any

other medication you're taking,

because that could have an affect.

After you've done that you can put

in information on what drug you're

about to take. And this is how you

do it. So this is paracetamol. Now,

I would probably take two 500 mg

tablets, so let's see the effect

that would be likely to have. It's

going to last about four hours,

which is pretty much what I would

have expected, but where this dark

blue is showing it shows I could be

ever so slightly overdosing, so

someone of my height and weight

maybe doesn't need to be taking to

tablets in one go. While the dark

blue may represent a little more

than needed, when you're clearly

taking too much the dial will turn

fully read.

With a simple

questionnaire on you, on your

environment, on your body, with

something like five or six seconds

we can cover something like 90% of

the questions and for the ten

remaining % we need complimentary

information, like RUH smoker or not,

which kind of regimented you have,

of course genetics. Weitering

pharmacists in the future Strood

have an important role to play in

this ecosystem that we think. Not

only by selling drugs but by selling

the exact drugs and the exact dose

for the patients.

Artificial

intelligence is at the forefront of

this revolution, analysing massive

quantities of biomedical data that

could transform treatment.

Well,

imagine you're a scientist and you

could read every piece of

information that had ever been

written about biomedicine. You could

store that information and then you

could use it to make new discoveries

in diseases.

There are billions of

potential combinations of genes,

diseases and drugs and here hugely

powerful algorithms are at work to

establish the best combinations.

Genetics will also play a central

role in personalising what you're

prescribed in future. Astrazeneca

are analysing genomes from over 2

million people, and this data could

soon be at your GP's fingertips.

Patients will actually be at the

point where maybe they'll be able to

go into the clinic, go into your

local GP, and have that information

already available. The doctor will

then be able to look up not only the

type of genotyping but also your

individual Jelic I, and match that

to the best medicine for you. Some

people are even talking about doing

this at birth so when you develop a

disease, the Doctor's already got

your DNA.

So any one size fits all

approach to medicine could soon

become a thing of the past, with

your prescription always being

specific to your needs. That was

Lara looking at the very special

techniques that may soon treat the

diseases none of us want to face.

But there are those who are going

further, they're not just trying to

treat, manage and queue up life

shortening diseases, they're

actually trying to lengthen the

human lifespan. In and I'm assuming

research facility in Silicon Valley,

I met Aubrey De Gray, who is

treating a project that treats

ageing itself as a disease which can

be cured. And he's made some

seemingly quite outlandish claims in

the past. Am I right you are the guy

that said the world's verse 1000

-year-old has already been born?

I

always make clear that I think it's

credible. I do think it is credible.

If we look at the care, it is very

straightforward, the risk of dying

in your 20s is low. If you get to

your 26th birthday your chance of

reaching your 27th birthday is very

high. The only reason that people

don't live to 1000 already is

because of ageing, because their

probability of death in the coming

year goes up. It happens to go up by

10% each year.

10% each year?

10%

more likely to die at the age of 63

than you are at the age of 62 and so

on.

That's quite high.

But if we can

fix this damage that doesn't happen

any more, the probability of dying

stays only being limited by the

probability of things that don't

have to do with how long ago you

were born.

What you're saying is

within the lifetime of someone who

has just been born you will learn

how to effectively cancel out

ageing?

We've developed ways at the

molecular and cellular level to

repair the damage the body does to

itself throughout life. This is

called the longevity escape

velocity. We're not talking about

massively lengthening human life,

we're talking about massively

lengthening people's healthy lives.

If people can stay healthy for

longer then there would generally be

improvements in society.

What do you

see society being like if everyone

had massively extended lifespan is?

That's not what I focus on, what I

get out of bed for is I don't like

people getting sick. I don't like

the fact 100,000 people a day die of

ageing. I would like to hasten the

defeat of that problem. Also you got

to take into account people are only

going to get older one year per

year. We're not going to have any

1000 -year-old people or at least

900 years whatever happens, and

that's quite a long time to figure

out what to do about it.

The

enigmatic Aubrey De Grey. Can you

imagine living in a world where we

all might live to be more than 1000?

That would be strange. Mind you,

first we all have to get past the

year 2049, which according to the

recent Blade Runner movie, is a

pretty bleak time. That film won the

Oscar for Best visual effects last

weekend and to celebrate we thought

we would bring you a bit of extra

behind-the-scenes science that went

into making that world.

I think you

found him.

That's not possible. If

this gets out... We've bought

ourselves a war.

There's obviously a huge

responsibility to deliver something

for the audience of Blade Runner for

the first one. The expectation

visually making everything look cool

is on our mind every day.

The

demands of Vegas and the expectation

of making something that was based

on what we know Vegas now but what

it would be in the future, so we

started with the US Geo data, the

Vegas Valley and the city itself.

So

a simple model in the computer.

David Gassner, the art director of

the film, add a simple model of

Vegas with buildings placed around

and so forth, we took those two and

smashed them together initially. We

look for ways very subtly of how to

bring in the human element into the

shots, how to sell that scale,

analysing the work and how to use

graphics on the face of the

buildings, how here in a lot of his

paintings used human scale

futuristic items. We build all that

stuff and placed it around the city

in an organised way to make it look

like people were there at one time,

even though we see no one, and

that's what made it look real or

looked like a place people could

have been in. To build trash may

soak was based on the idea that

everyone had moved to the city and

all the structures are outside the

city had been pretty much abandoned.

No power, no water outside to the

trash is generated for the city was

dumped on the buildings outside the

city. Again, we're trying to based

things, as much reality as we could

so we started with the landscape of

current day California from Los

Angeles versus San Diego and we

determined Icelander was the place

to photograph the ground skate and

the beach. So through aerial

photography of that we placed in the

two on top of each other and then

the sequence of the ships was based

on the Bangladesh ship harvesting

yard where they recapture all the

metal and so forth that happens now.

A lot of the ships and the pieces of

the ships and the idea of these

little tiny human beings working on

these massive structures sort of

growth that look through the middle

of that sequence. So it's a matter

of grabbing all these components

that were based on today's reality,

scaling them so did have this sort

of massive relationship between Kay

and his little spinner in this

enormous landscape and these huge

amounts of trash. It was a matter of

pulling off that scale and distance,

which was just a massive

pulling off that scale and distance,

which was just a massive, the

undertaking in terms of the amount

of data and assets we had to build

and things we had to manage in

itself to pull that off.

The future

of the species is finally unearthed.

It is a brilliant film, absolutely

superb. Blade Runner 2049, a

well-deserved Oscar winner there.

That's it from us for this week.

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