so around 18 months ago, when we heard that google offshoot sidewalk labs was to take over president trump says his administration plans to impose additional sanctions on iran, an area of toronto to build, from scratch, an entirely to try to prevent the country tech—first neighbourhood, well, we hightailed it over acquiring nuclear weapons. meanwhile, british officials are set there to find out more — to meet senior officials in tehran and excitement was in the air. for talks aimed at easing tensions between iran and the united states. the streets will come alive with the vitality that we expect from the greatest urban hundreds of climate activists have environments, in a way that has entered a huge coal mine never actually been seen before. in northwest germany as part of a protest against global warming. 20,000 campaigners from 17 countries have also been carrying out acts of civil disobedience around ever since, it's fair to say that the nearby city of aachen things have not gone in the past few days. entirely to plan. marc cieslak has been back to toronto to get the latest the two remaining contenders on the project. toronto, canada's largest city. in the race to become the next british prime minister, boris johnson and jeremy hunt, have been making their pitch its waterfront is undergoing redevelopment. for the job to conservative party sidewalk labs, a subsidiary of alphabet, the sister company members. but borisjohnson avoided answering to tech giant google, has partnered questions about why the police with waterfront toronto, were called to the flat he shares an agency set up by local government to manage the whole redevelopment. sidewalk originally had plans with his partner on friday. to build a so—called "smart city", on a 12 acre site

churches could be encouraged to act as safe havens for young people at risk of becoming victims of knife crime. the plan will be discussed at next in the rebuilt area. month's general synod of the church of england, where they'll consider 307 is sidewalk‘s test facility where ideas for this whether churches should new development are prototyped. so what you're looking at right here is a prototype for a new paving kathryn stanczyszyn has more. system for our streets. they have always been this one is actually a permeable paper, here the water goes places of sanctuary, into the paver down but could churches now become into the ground itself. a bigger part of the fight up here you see a solar panel, against knife crime? testing the integration of lights there are calls today for buildings into the pavers themselves. jesse schapins is the director like this to make sure their doors of urban design at sidewalk labs, are open in the hours after school finishes, he's showing off some of the tech a safe haven for any child at risk. that it's testing before the company begins construction on the quayside project. this one is testing a heating system members of my church have lost loved embedded in the pavers, ones through knife crime and i think having the resources of churches... and we then heat the paverjust it is an amazing resource enough so there is no and i think actually, ice that forms. something we call the building we should look at ourselves and say, raincoat, so for example it's are there ways in which we can a sunny day, it can adapt open our churches in that and provide more shade. critical post school hours? if there is rain it can adapt certainly, i think it's possible to those conditions. and could be one of the responses sidewalk‘s plans include robotic refuse collection and self driving we could make. taxis, all assisted by a host partners to put up a... of different sensors embedded another idea is for all churches in the neighbourhood. to have knife amnesty bins on the premises, something this

inner—city church has already embraced, another opportunity to get the whole endeavour will be driven by data — data about the weather, weapons off the streets. about the number of pedestrians and vehicles, and it's this use of data that's creating rising more than 100 people have been concerns in locals. stabbed to death in the uk so far this year, the youngest there are just a couple of problems with this sci—fi sounding project. just 1a years old. number one, it's way behind it is a problem disproportionately schedule, which isn't unusual affecting young people. for redevelopment efforts. nearly a third of deaths were those under 30. but number two, in a climate the home office claims where the public is increasingly it is tackling the problem and says churches do have a role to play. distrustful of big tech companies, the proposal will now be discussed at next month's general synod, the church of england's do the people of toronto now even national assembly. church leaders say it is time to offer practical and not just spiritual solutions. kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. want this plan to go ahead? block sidewalk is a local campaign group that opposes sidewalk‘s plans. they are doing all this planning, now on bbc news it's time for click. bamboozling people with stories about nice paving stones and... but the fundamental issues, is this for our benefit or alphabet‘s shareholders‘ benefit, never get answered, and i think this week, we have a ringside seat i smell quite a large rat there. for a tussle in toronto. tablets versus teachers in malawi, trying to build a neighbourhood and it's a tech tko down the gym. 00:02:57,021 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 we all love a smart city. at the heart of toronto on the waterfront, that is filled with sensors and technology that will be able to collect our data,

our every move, is something that is very concerning to a lot of people. how our children be consenting to sharing their data, their behavioural data? these are all kind of questions that i think a lot of people have in mind. questions like these have increased tensions, and scrutiny of the whole project has intensified after several members of its advisory board resigned over privacy concerns. the project is also now facing a challenge in the courts. the canadian civil liberties association is suing three different levels of government as well as waterfront toronto over plans for the tech—driven development. michael, what is it that sidewalk is proposing that the ccla is unhappy with, or opposes?

what we are unhappy with is that a private company is self—regulating in an area that involves people's constitutional rights, their privacy and their dignity. what the government in canada and ontario and toronto has done, has said sidewalk labs, you figure out how to act in the public interest. you self—regulate the way in which you are going to be collecting and storing data. and we, those of us who live in toronto, or walk anywhere near or through this part of the waterfront, we are the lab rats. and number one, we never signed up for this, number two, there's no jurisdiction for waterfront toronto to do this, and number three, there is no protection whatsoever by law, of the data that is being collected and manipulated and stored and used in whatever form it's going to be used. privacy and data, there are some huge concerns around privacy and especially data about what happens to it, who is going to manage it.

governance, who has oversight of that data? what i would say is that this project is fundamentally about protecting everyone‘s privacy, it's built on the established laws we already have in canada. so it's not us actually that is planning to manage or make money off the data in this neighbourhood, is actually proposed that it's an independent non—profit public sector entity, we have called an urban data trust, that will take responsibility for managing and using the collection of data in this place. sidewalk labs has just submitted its thousand—page long master plan document, that outlines what has in store for the quayside project in more detail. waterfront toronto will need to closely examine the paperwork, and it says it will open it up for public discussion. i think you have a perfect storm — timing, players, actors and a pressure point on projects that could be a lighthouse of how you solve these issues if we get it right. if we get it wrong, then that would not be good.

as more people become aware of the kind of data that is captured by big tech outfits, and how it's used, concerns around privacy mean decisions made in toronto could end up having ramifications for future smart city projects around the world. that was marc. big tech companies offering services forfree in return for data. it's a familiar theme from toronto to timbuktu. 0riginating in silicon valley, for some, this type of business transaction has come to define the age we live in, and its consequences, good and bad, are onlyjust beginning to shake down. jen copestake has been looking at some of the most influential thinking in what is being described as "surveillance capitalism".

we freely give out our personal data every day through the apps on our phones, conversations with smart home assistants or other so—called smart devices like toothbrushes and vacuums. it seems like an inevitable and perhaps even cheap price to pay for living in a digitally connected world, giving us access to free services, like google‘s search and maps, and social media sites like facebook. but the data we are giving away for free about our everyday lives is very valuable, and its exploitation is the basis of a new economic paradigm which author shoshana zuboff calls "surveillance capitalism." she presented her book in cambridge, also known as the uk's silicon valley. what surveillance capitalism does, is it claims private human experience, private human experience is unilaterally claimed to be brought into the marketplace, where it's translated into behavioural data. this behavioural data is combined

with machine learning and artificial intelligence to create predictions of what people are going to do with their day, and what they might buy. professor zuboff detail how this capability to make money from behavioural data was first discovered by google when the company was struggling in the wake of the dot com crash at the turn of the millennium. to boost ad revenue, google mined its own exclusive data logs for the digital exhaust of people's online search behaviour. google worked out that this extraneous data was valuable, and with the ability to process large amounts of data came the ability to discern trends in people's behaviour. this led to the development of highly tailored online advertising. everyone is familiar with this. you go online and you search for tennis shoes, and then the next day you have ads for tennis shoes all over your pages. those advertisers are buying google‘s predictions about what we're going to do in the future. professor zuboff says these

predictions have opened up a world where companies are even able to experiment with modifying human behaviour without our knowledge. in 2016 google‘s spinoff niantic created the wildly successful augmented reality game pokemon go, where people would run around collecting different kinds of pokemon. while it seemed on the surface to be cute and benign, professor zu boff says it was designed as an experiment to see how people could be herded towards commercial targets and collect data from its users. pokemon go figured out how to direct us, always out of our awareness, exactly to those places where pokemon go would get paid for our footfall. so it was an experimental laboratory on a giant scale, for the kind of surveillance capitalism that learns to intervene in our behaviour, to direct it to the places that make the most money for surveillance capitalists and their customers.

the most predictive behaviour comes from actually intervening in people's behaviour — intervening in your real life, intervening in the state of play. and subtly always designed to be outside of your awareness. subtly shaping your experience. professor zuboff is asking us to consider the subtle implications of surveillance capitalism on our lives, comparing it with the impact of industrial capitalism. industrial capitalism may have left a mark on our natural environment, but perhaps we need to consider how, left unchecked, surveillance capitalism could impact on oui’ human nature. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that facebook announced its new cryptocurrency called libra. this will allow smartphone payments across the world, and will be governed by companies

including mastercard, visa, uber and spotify. some lawmakers have already raised concerns. google released a new tool to let youtubers virtually test out different looks. the feature called ar beauty try—on — snappy — follows l'0real‘s recent ar partnership with amazon. and huawei founder ren zhengfei said international sales of its handsets had sunk 40% in the last month. the firm plans to slash production by $30 billion as fallout from its us blacklist continues. samsung has advised customers to scan for viruses every few weeks to prevent malicious software attacks. it has shared and now deleted an extensive how—to video which might have put some off owning a smart tv at all. the first tesla pickup in the world, called the truckla, isn't made by elon musk. us engineer and youtuber simone giertz modified a tesla model 3, even adding extra tech

so she could weld on the road. don't worry, giertz unplugged the car's 12 volt battery before surgery so the car felt nothing. finally mit scientists are teaching a robot how to feel an objectjust by looking at it. researchers say this will help the robot grip better when lifting things, like the handle of a mug. mine‘s a tea with two sugars, please. these days, fitness gadgets are about so much more than just tracking our activity. yes, of course, they want to make us exercise more, but they also aim to help us get injured less — and sometimes, even have a spot of fun too. some of the latest gadgets certainly don't pull any punches. a set of connected boxing gloves. now, the sensors are embedded here in the wraps, there is one in each hand so they can track how many punches you make, and also the force of those punches.

it's eight rounds. so take a deep breath in. fightcamp hopes to get you fighting fit by running you through a variety of workouts in the app. the accelerometer—based sensors track your moves in realtime, recognising the differences between the warmup exercises and when you are pulling a punch. probably a good job this was a i—way match, as my lack of skill was pointed out by a professional boxer who happened to be to hand. ok, this is how you do it. although the wraps are the pivotal part of the kit, there are options for an entire set up with punch bag too. how good at teaching boxing do you think this is for someone who's never boxed before and is just trying to exercise? you start off by kind of doing

it at the lower level, because obviously it has levels, so start off at the lower level until that becomes comfortable, like anything else. it's going to take time and dedication, but it's easily accessible to learn, as long as you take the time. or maybe you prefer a simpler spot of weightlifting. this is a connected kettle bell, and it has six different weights built into one device. you can change them byjust pressing a button. jaxjox uses a rotated weight stacking system. it locks in the number of plates needed to create your chosen weight, ranging from 5.5 to 19 kg. 0ne charge of the device will last you up to 14 days. it syncs to a mobile phone app where you can keep track of all the sets and reps that you've done as well as note how much rest you've taken, and then you can keep on competing against yourself. meanwhile, away from the blood, sweat and tears of this gym, i've been looking at something

a little more scientific too. here at the university of brighton sports science physiology lab, there is all sorts of kit and this rather intimidating looking treadmill could be used to help analyse my gait. but instead of doing that, we're going to head outside with these, which are the gait up sensors. inside them, there is a gyroscope, an accelerometer, even a barometer but it's not about the hardware, it's the data that they are actually collecting which is important and how that can be analysed to help me move better. and the new algorithms doing that are being used here for a collaboration called the sub2 project to try and help elite runners break the 2—hour marathon mark. let's go! it seems i wasn't quite as wonky as i thought i was. when we look at you, you are quite a fit and good runner. not elite for sure, but not

at specific risk to anything that we would do is fine tuning. my colleague says i run like an elephant. do i not run like an elephant? can i tell her i do not? they might think that visually it's the case, but the data show it's not the case. visually the case, oh dear. but the analytics, and that's the new bit here, not the hardware, do provide a clear report of your running. contact time, strike and asymmetry are the focus factors, allowing professional level tracking for consumers — although with a current pricetag of 1500 quid, i can't imagine them hitting the mainstream just yet. and while much of this tech mayjust seem overengineered and overpriced, maybe it's just early days for a fully connected workout experience that can really pack a punch. that was lara. it was an outrageous amount of money to give away for a competition — a $10 million prize, but some would say it's a small price to pay, because the challenge

was to find the best way to teach children remotely. the global learning xprize, at it was named, was the brainchild of elon musk. its aim was to teach children maths and literacy in their own language that would deliver results at least as good as it would have been if they had the chance to go to class. the results have been impressive. last months in los angeles, two winners were announced, picking up $5 million each from elon himself. dan has been back to africa to talk to one of them about what they achieved, and what might be next. rooster crows. the walk to school, and back to where it all began. it was here in this village where seven years ago, 0nebillion handed out its first devices, before any of these

children were born. some of them are still in use. andrew's charity is now working with partners in south africa, uganda, the uk, tanzania as well as across malawi, but to its founder, this place is special — as is winning the xprize. on a personal level, we just felt enormous gratitude. we've built on the expertise of so many people from around the world. 0bviously $5 million is very, very useful. it's really given us this opportunity to show that we have a quality product that can achieve this recognition from xprize. in tanzania, tablets were given out to 4000 schoolless children in 150 villages, most of whom scored zero when tested in maths and literacy at the start of the trial. 18 months on, and the results

were stark — in many cases, better than would have been expected if they'd gone to school. and interestingly, with little difference in results between boys and girls. i think it's the biggest educational learning trial anywhere in the world. we saw children making very significant gains in letter recognition, in reading words, in maths, recognising numbers, number discriminations. what this shows to us is that there is a solution to the global learning crisis. those positive results are reflected here in these 30—minute community sessions held at this village house. i have a daughter, grace — and in the past, she was not doing well in mathematics but when the gadgets come, she is doing good in school. schools in malawi, you will get one classroom with over 150 children.

i know one school where there is 200, 250 children in one classroom. if you put in place, for example, what we're doing here, using the tablets, it will actually ease the tension in class. can you imagine how many hours it takes to mark 250... you have a lesson of 30 minutes and then four hours for marking. 0nebillion is launching a new robust, low—cost tablet building on what they've learned so far. these tablets often can be damaged by the usb plug, if someone doesn't know you've got to put them in one way round, they can force it and it can break. so we use a magnetic connector rather than usb, and it can be charged from solar. this adapts to the child.

the software now has a chaos start—up mode, where it can assess the abilities of any child who picks it up in the background and build a learning plan on the fly. andrew is keen to work with education officials and experts on the ground, allowing them to tailor the curriculum to each community. you say you are keen to work with partners. would that be any partner? if google or microsoft came along with a large amount of cash, would you welcome that? we believe that the child, particularly at primary school, needs to be in a sanctuary where they are not being observed, and data is being extracted about them. all of us know that big tech companies are gathering data on all of us now. i mean, google probably knows where we are sitting now in the middle of malawi, and that information is monetised. i am fearful, i think we must protect children from being seen as a product in any way. an hour's drive north of lilongwe and the potential of the software becomes clear.

dzaleka refugee camp is home to almost 40,000, fleeing war orfamine. here, 0nebillion's partner, vso, is delivering hour—long classes. this is integrity church in the heart of the refugee camp. 50 or so children are here. the tablets have been in for about a month. it's a little too early to assess the progress but the interest, you just have to look at the faces. the xprize has shown this open source software works, and that it's one of the best at delivering these results. given the right funding, it seems hard to imagine why tablet schooling won't become more widely adopted. that was dan in east africa, what a fabulous story that was. that's it for this week.

next week, we have a special programme on the subject of sustainable tech. can't wait for that. in the meantime you canjoin us on social media throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick, here's the address. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. good morning. it certainly was a very pleasant start to the weekend across much of the uk. the sunshine tempted people onto the beaches as it will do later in the week, but for some of you over the next couple of days we're

going to swap the blue skies for some, particularly stormy ones. potential for torrential thunderstorms here and there which could cause flash flooding. but, by the end of the week, the sunshine will be back more widely and by this stage heat and humidity will be starting to soar. now out there into today, we've got that area of low pressure which will bring the storms later on, starting to creep towards us. but high pressure which brought the saturday sunshine still across most of the uk. so it's a bright, sunny start for many. a bit more cloud across the highlands and hebrides with some patchy rain that will gradually move away northwards. an isolated shower in scotland later in the day, but it's toward south—west england where rain will develop through the morning, spreading into parts of wales and south—west of northern ireland later on. a stiffening south—east breeze to go with it. elsewhere, the sunshine turns hazy, clouds a lot more compared with saturday, temperatures in the mid—teens, northern half of the uk in the mid—20s towards the south—east corner and turning increasingly muggy. and as humidity starts to increase later, it could start to turn stormy. parts of wales, the midlands and particularly northern england — we could see some severe thunderstorms. rainfall amounts are going to vary

quite widely from one place to the next, but some could see as much as 50mm, two inches of rain. that could cause some flash flooding and problems into monday morning rush—hour. and the same can be said across eastern parts of scotland as that rain starts to move its way in. so into monday we go, parts of eastern scotland will be wettest to begin with. the rain will ease its way northwards. sunshine will break through some of the misty, low clouds to begin with, quite a muggy start for england and wales and then we could see some further severe storms — again parts of northern england, southern scotland. best favoured for the worst of those, but the exact position could change a little bit. a cool day northern scotland with an easterly breeze. further south, a very muggy and humid sort of a day with some sunshine breaking through the cloud. now as we go through monday night and into tuesday morning one batch of storms move away. and then we could bring more rain in, particularly across the eastern half of england, some severe storms. but they mayjust be a bit further west, so keep checking the forecast for the storms on tuesday. a lot them will ease away through the day.

one or two left over, but a fair amount of bright weather and temperatures widely into the 20s by this stage. and, as we see, high pressure builds back as we go later in the week. after a brief drop in temperatures, some mist in low cloud around the coast, as we go towards the end of the week, high pressure to the east of us. we start to tap into near record—breaking heat across other parts of western europe, temperatures could be widely in the mid—20s to low 30s. we'll keep you updated. bye for now.

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