and the idea does seem to be gaining ground. the headlines: a piece of ai art was, for the first time, sold at auction police in northern ireland are questioning two men last month at london's sotheby‘s. in connection with the killing artist mario klingemann‘s memories of the journalist lyra mckee. of passersbyi was created using what is known as generative she was shot while observing rioting adversarial networks, or gans. in londonderry‘s creggan estate these break down the data in northern ireland from traditional oil portraits, rebuilding it into a series on thursday night. two teenage men have been arrested and are being held of unique images. under the terrorism act. police in paris have fired tear gas and arrested more than 100 people following clashes between riot police and yellow vest protesters. what you see there, i built myself. a number of motorbikes were set on fire by the demonstrators but like a painter does not build who have been banned from the area the brush themselves or, let's say, they go in the store around the badly damaged notre—dame cathedral. the metropolitan police commissioner to purchase paint or canvas, has called on climate change protesters in central london to go home. i am working with materials that hundreds of demonstrators have been illegally occupying marble arch, are standing on the shoulders of a generation of researchers. parliament square but the intention here and waterloo bridge since monday. was deliberately neither to achieve over 1,000 officers have been on duty perfection nor photorealism. and over 750 people have been arrested. selling now for £32,000. it was actually the code that was bought here with a couple

of screens and a wooden unit now on bbc news, click. thrown in to enjoy it on. so maybe the future of appreciation of art is one of appreciation of technology as well. this week, the war on fake news. when robots paint the...moon. that was lara. flipping out over this. now let's talk phones. and as a gee—ee—ee—ee—eek, and how to make a shooting star. i have been waiting a long time to be able to do this. the idea of a flexible display has been around for years and on click we have watched this story, ahem, unfold. the world's largest election is under way in india. 0verfive weeks, 900 million eligible voters in 20 states are casting their ballots to decide who will rule this vast country

for the next five years. but these things have been and this is no small decision — an awfully long time coming. because in that time, we have had to wait for 0led india's population technology that allows for flexible is set to overtake china's. electronics to get to a point where it is cheap and reliable enough to survive being bent, and its economy is likely flexed and mistreated in the real world. and this year, finally, several companies have been able to, to become bigger than the uk's. ahem, roll them out. the highest profile flexible phone has to be samsung's galaxy fold the size of this democratic which becomes available exercise is like no other, at the beginning of next month. but the issues that it brings up whispering: for £1800. now the front screen is smaller are all too familiar. and narrower than you might be used to but this device is really social media, once again, is playing a part all about a 7.3 inch tablet in swaying political opinions. screen hiding inside. you can just about see that crease down the centre, and once again, misinformation, although it is less obvious so—called ‘fake news‘ is attempting to cloud when the screen is bright. voters‘ judgement. 0n opening or closing, and the problem is, last year, any apps running on one screen will switch immediately to the other bbc—led research revealed that in an adjusted size. ordinary citizens in india are less that bigger screen does allow concerned with the facts of a story, for three apps to be open at once which you can reposition or pop out and they are more likely to share it into floating windows. if it bolsters now this is the first time that their national identity. journalists have been allowed to touch the thing and i came down the problem is now as acute here today expecting it to weigh on whatsapp as it is on facebook. a ton but it does not.

and when messages come from family and friends, the receivers are more likely to believe it and to share it. it is heavier than the s10+ india's election commission has been but it is lighter than an ipad mini, working with social media giants so it depends on your perspective, really. to try and stop the toxic overspill. now, about the screen. it does not fold completely flat which has caused some to worry that david reid has been finding out a stray coin in the pocket if they have been successful. would sneak into the gap and cause fake news foxes the best of us. all sorts of screen damage. in india, and despite samsung's claims that it can take up to 200,000 it has a particular potency. folds, some reviewers have already experienced unexplained faults i got information from social media, with the screen. like whatsapp, facebook, news channels... facebook, whatsapp, instagram. samsung says it is looking into it but it's not exactly the best start last year, more than 30 people died for what is supposed to be a whole new type of device. after false social media rumours now then. triggered mob violence. i wonder if you have ever seen a shooting star. this ngo stepped in if you are lucky, you might see to counter its effects. a few of them in your lifetime the explosion of mobile internet but what if you could control here has been a cultural earthquake. people easily believe where and when they happen? fiery fake news and underestimate that would be pretty spectacular, wouldn't it? the effect of sharing it.

kate russell has been to japan to meet the scientists who are trying to take india is certainly a country, which comes under this whole thing control of the night sky. like follow, share, forward, like. three, two, one, go. misinformation is catchy, misinformation is alarming, misinformation is like negative news, which is very attractive. it's not often you can get this we don't feel, you know, close to a shooting star. bad about forwarding it without realising how 0oh, that one is green. a forward can impact people. follow, share, forward, like. this simulation of a meteor being burned up in earth's at election time, fiery rhetoric atmosphere is part of an ambitious linked to identity does all of these plan to create cosmic grade things, and there fireworks that can be seen from up are politicians here to 200 kilometres away. who are happy to ferment since we last visited communal tensions. it's why the election commission has been so worried the company back in 2016, about fake news hijacking the democratic process, and is asking they have been perfecting social media giants to clamp down. whatsapp introduced rationing, the technology to make it compact limiting to five enough to allow it the number of contacts to be sent into space. users can share content with. hitching a ride on a rocket is not

cheap, so every gram counts. many shooting stars ordinarily... as for facebook, it is smarting from a series of fake basically... news and data scandals. india's election is the big test. it pulled hundreds of fake accounts it is like a sesame seed size and this is bigger and announced a war room than the natural shooting stars. to crisis manage the election. this is completely burned out in the upper atmosphere. we asked to see it, so it becomes very and were eventually told it was not bright and lasts longer. in india, where the election is, but in san francisco, where facebook is. 0ur reporter who visited it it will take a year before said the war room had a the satellite descends to an orbit where they have been cleared by the world space agencies "cobbled together" feel to it. to eject the pellets. the fact that we set up these operations centres, that we had the right capabilities in this room, where we have threat investigates, so the particles sit inside this cylinder and they get rotated one engineers, data scientists, at a time into this chamber here. meant that we had the appropriate expertise down inside here in so we could respond rapidly when it mattered the most. the central chamber. back in india, then we put pressure behind them right here and we release them facebook has recruited an army and they get shot out of here. of independent fact checkers. the start—up news mobile 0k. employs a new breed ofjourno.

so puff, puff? they are certified by the yes. one at a time. international fact checking network. because the release velocity theirjob — is the number one critical factor to review flagged stories, rate their accuracy in ensuring accuracy of the particles, there is no system on earth currently accurate enough. and push out a corrective. this is a global epidemic the company is being secretive and requires a global response. about the date for the first for every social media company shooting star display. globally, the fake news problem creates a crisis but it does not take a genius of credibility as well. so for them, it is incumbent to work out that the timing sets upon them as well to work more things up nicely for the 2020 olympics. in future, they hope to offer deeply, especially with multicoloured displays as well. independent media companies. so this is one of the materials that will be tested today, by all accounts, the fact checkers just mounted on the tip are doing a terrificjob. of the stick. we're not quite sure how it the problem is, there isjust so much fake news will burn, what colour it will be, for them to deal with. or the brightness but that is added to that, fact checking is realjournalism — the point of these tests. it takes time. it promises to look spectacular. for all the time that it takes, but there is real science at stake here as well. the false story is online, right now, meteor science doing its damage. is not well known. by the time a fact checker, it is a wide field of research you know, pushes out an article, and especially scientists they don't fact checks something, it is already 24—48 hours know the mass, the brightness, since the misinformation the composition of meteors

has been posted on the platform. and the misinformation by that time and we don't know if it led to the spread of life on earth. has more or less reached because we have such an accurate the intended audience. and facebook has no way system we can tell people, of informing the people scientists and our own crews exactly who have viewed the misinformation where to point cameras so that they can record and get data. it is not so surprising that, look, there is a fact to connect fireworks checker responding to that. to scientific breakthroughs. once a story is found to be fake, it does not then disappear. around 2000 years ago, sure, it is contextualised alchemists seeking a recipe by the fact checker‘s work for eternal life accidentally and it's made less prominent, created firecrackers. its viral wings are clipped, but it remains up there. this led to our first there is, however, fundamental understanding of the forces of nature. a category of misinformation that facebook does take down. in particular cases, where we see that misinformation so this could mark the beginning of a new chapter of scientific study. violates our community standards and essentially co—ordinates harm — it's also going to look very pretty. a good example of this just to anchor the conversation is misinformation that misleads people about the process of how brilliant. to vote and logistics that was kate injapan and that is it from us of when to vote, that aspect for this week. you can follow us on social media of misinformation throughout the week. we are on youtube, instagram, is particularly dangerous facebook and twitter. and as a result, we remove thank you for watching that from our platform.

and we will see you soon. for all the drawbacks to fact checking, it does seem to be educating people to be more sceptical. did you just forward it? ijust received it on some random group. 84 million new voters have come of age since the last election, so is the social media generation rising up to the wiles of the fake newsers? so, i think first we hello. after two days of easter weekend need to check it all warmth, you may be watching this to see if it is set to continue for the rest of the weekend. and then we have to decide that it is fake or true. the short answer is yes my idea is if you are not but keep watching now informative about something, for the longer answer. it is better not to spread this is the view from 0xfordshire earlier where it was a chilly rumours around that. start for saturday. warm in the sunshine again and the weather front close fake news is imagined to north—west scotland, to have most impact in knife—edge constituencies giving some outbreaks of rain and more cloud where the vote is close. to parts of ireland, but that backs away by monday. after the elections even here, we will see will be the reckoning, then we will see how the return of the sunshine. well social media outlets have done at curving activists and their desire this is how we start easter sunday, to trick unwitting voters. still with some outbreaks of rain that was david reid in india. in the northern and western with me is will moy from full facts, isles, maybe a few mist and fog patches

an independent fact—checking towards eastern parts of england, charity here in the uk. but where some spots and, will, you have started will start the day close working with facebook to fact check their articles to freezing for a touch of frost. recently, haven't you? that's right, they came to us last temperatures rebound in the sunshine year, we spent a few months talking across england and wales, about how that would work, how we would maintain our independence. the hazy sunshine for northern ireland and for some of those in scotland, when we talk about democratic votes the vast majority is dry for the northern and western isles, like the one going on in india right again, some outbreaks of rain a time. now, i can see a future breezy here, cooler where whoever loses the election than elsewhere in the will now be able to blame fake news breeze still keeping some north sea and english channel coasts cooler than elsewhere but you have the sunshine, most of us high teens and low 20s, some spots as much as — maybe more near the mid—20s, giving the warmest easter sunday than anything else. on record a run for its money. is that the future pollen sufferers, though, we are destined for, know it is quite high out do you think? there for tree pollen so, yes, it is the past we have already lived in. some of us are suffering people have always complained as a result. that the election was rigged and it wasn't fair for one reason this is how it looks through sunday or another, the newspapers night and into easter monday. are biased, whatever it might be. still with outbreaks of rain there has always been those complaints. towards the western isles keeping it what's true now that breezy here as well. didn't used to be true elsewhere, though, it is mainly dry and clear and low single figures in cooler spots in parts is that a small group of people can control communications of eastern england and, again, it could turn to millions of other people misty in a few places. that their opponents can't see. easter monday, this is how this is shaping up. so with targeted notice the difference online advertising now, it is possible to advertise between northern

and western scotland. to millions of people, that weather system, but only a selected as we saw earlier, has backed group of people — away, so we are back you can advertise just to men in the sunshine here. with one message there will be an increasing breeze orjust to women with another message, or in even more, sometimes quite and more in the way of high cloud pushing in from the south sinister, targeted groups of people. during easter monday so sun will be increasingly hazy. that has to be made transparent temperatures for some of us may not be quite as high so much or we really will have a problem with an election, where people can as many of us will notice. say this all happened surreptitiously, in the dark without scrutiny. and if election is not a shared experience, it will still be a fine, it ceases to be a truly democratic experience. warm day for getting out and about. in india, especially, there is a lot of sharing now, this is how it looks as we go going on on whatsapp. now, that is not public, through the next few everything happens inside private, encrypted groups. days after easter. how on earth can you fact check whatsapp groups notice we start to get low and what they are sharing? pressure taking over, weather fronts heading our way from the and that will bring we don't know yet, it's a change after the easter weekend. something that people in my line of work talk more cloud around, increasing chance to each other about, of showers and thunderstorms and it is a concern. and we'll start to see temperatures coming down. we were pleased that whatsapp but that will be a gradual process. made the move to reduce how easy you can see it all under way here. it is to forward information if you want some rain on whatsapp, because that can make dangerous information go viral on the garden, there is hope, especially during with too little scrutiny. the second half of the week. but actually, it is going to come down to individual users of whatsapp

and every other messaging platform saying, "i don't want to share things with my friends that i think might not be true." because no—one actually wants to mislead their friends. but it seems to me human nature that we want to share sensational sounding information, and that has been true before social media as well. that is just not going to stop, is it? it is not going to stop, no. but equally, pub conversations for the last hundred years have not all been completely accurate, people have told nonsense at the market, nonsense at the pub, nonsense around the kitchen table for generations. it is not necessary to create a world in which nobody says anything that is inaccurate or sensationalised. what we need to do is spot where it is causing harm and then ask people to think twice. and say, actually, if you are sharing information about how to vote and you are not sure if it is right, that is the point where you need to stop and think before you share. do you think facebook and other social media platforms are doing

enough at the moment to counter misinformation? no, we don't. we think they have now started to take some serious and useful steps forward, but actually, they need to do more. they need to be changing the product so that it makes it easier for people to work out what they can and cannot trust. we need to see more research, more independent research into where problems are, what harms really arise from them. we need more data sharing. and with the programme that facebook came to us with recently, they started for the first time to give outsiders an insight into what is going on the platform, they started to integrate fact checking into the product. that is a decent first step, but it is not the last. thank you very much for your time, will. thank you very much. hello and welcome to the week in tech. this week, apple settled its chip royalty dispute with qualcomm, sending the chip—maker's stock rocketing up. twitter ceo jack dorsey said it is time to fundamentally rethink how his service is used, comparing himself to the captain

of the titanic. and after nearly five years of development, playstation announced plans for its next generation console. it will be backwards compatible with the ps4 and have 8k resolution. hello, and welcome to bbc news. an investigation by the consumer i'm reged ahmad. magazine, which has found the amazon online store has been flooded ukrainians are going with thousands of products to the polls on sunday in the country's presidential election. with fake 5—star reviews, they'll be choosing between the incumbent petro poroshenko and comedian and tv star volodymyr zelensky, who has no political experience. which looked at 14 popular tech items, including headphones and smart watches, finding unknown brands also appearing in the top of the search. amazon says it is using automated technology to weed out false reviews. a court in the ukrainian capital, uber launched a feature kiev, rejected a last—minute lawsuit in saudi arabia that allows female drivers to block male calling for mr zelensky to be barred from standing. passengers from hailing their cab. caroline rigby has more. uber discovered that up to 75% of female drivers didn't want to pick up male passengers. women have only been allowed to drive in saudi arabia since last summer. alibaba's ceo jack ma has defended the culture of working long hours at tech companies, saying it is a blessing for workers to put in a 72—hour work week.

the so—called 9—9—6 work culture, working 9 till 9, 6 days a week, was highlighted by chinese tech workers online. and finally, in the latest sign of the impending robot takeover, boston dynamics showed off its robo dogs pulling a truck across a parking lot. the 30—kilogram robot dogs will go on sale later this year. at this london gallery, art created by a robot using artificial intelligence is on show. these images are a very modern take on the traditional chinese ink landscape paintings. they are created by using a combination of data from nasa, images collected by the chinese rover on the moon and a human who was taught the al to create brush strokes that look like this. ai genesis will never create the same image twice and its inventor, who calls the robot his soulmate, sees that as one of the joys. when you look at the picture do

you feel pleased with it? do you question how it has come out? how do you feel when you first see it? i feel amazed. wow, that is my expression. oh, wow. if i draw myself like this, i will be punished by my ink painting master because that is not the way that a trained traditional ink painting. what's wrong with it? they will not draw that that way. that is not a traditional technique of chinese ink painting. but the new art ink paintings, what we want to do is put some new things in traditional paintings, to renew it. you have certainly done that. who is the better painter, you or the robot? i would say it is a collaboration between us. and sometimes it is embarrassing

because do i say look at my paintings... or look at our paintings? but if the creation of an image comes down to data, numbers, algorithms, is it maybe missing something? each piece of art that is created normally has a person's emotions, persons thought and vision put into it. when you are leaving the ai to do a lot of that, is it still art? firstly, what is emotions? emotion is our response to the environment. like on a rainy day you will feel blue. on a sunny day you may feel the future is so bright. if i put data to stimulate gemini's work, to stimulate it, to create extra stimulation, less surrounding, for example i put in humidity and temperature, every time it comes out different. i would say there is emotion and relations at this moment but no—one can say that ai will not have emotion or imagination 00:16:36,780 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 in the future.