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deal on security guarantees next saturday. that could pave the way for new talks among afghan representatives. now on bbc news, click. this week, making water out of thin air. cyber security in saudi arabia. and fake frocks of the future. the
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code breaking of bletchley park, the gadgets used to conceal cold war secrets and how we can protect ourselves now on line. this exhibition at london's science museum marks a century of gchq making our nation a safer place. protecting sensitive communication from hacking is nothing new. no matter what the technology of the age is. here we have a telephone used by winston churchill in world war ii. it's called the secret phone and comes with a complete large privacy unit. inside it, electronic circuits are scrambling both incoming and outgoing calls and then some years on, margaret thatcher used this secure briefcase telephone every day. the passcodes on it were changed to protect the encrypted calls. hacking and cybercrime are of
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course regularly hitting the headlines now. countries and companies around the globe are desperately trying to find ways to avoid filing the gym. this month —— falling victim. this month, the saudi cyber division hosted its first ever cyber security forum and click was provided with a rare invitation to saudi arabia to take a look at what the country has been working on but with accusations that the regime has been carrying out campaigns of hacking against critics and journalists, we want to know, can the saudis be trusted in cyberspace? can the saudis be trusted in oe can the saudis be trusted in cyberspace? joe tidy, the bbc‘s cyberspace? joe tidy, the bbc‘s cyber security reporter, has been finding out. it's a country famous for its endless golden sands and vast riches built on one natural resource, oil. but as the world begins to wean itself of this valuable fossil fuel, it's forcing a
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monumental shift in the sands. saudi arabia is a country on the move. things are changing here so rapidly in the way people live and work. the countries trying to diversify its away from just oil and this is a big pa rt away from just oil and this is a big part of it. this is digital city. a couple of years ago, these buildings weren't here. this is part of the country's drive to move into technologies and particularly cyber security. there are big ambitions here to create household names in information security and across riyadh, another sign of intent. this place is amazing. it's like buckingham palace with palm trees. the first time ever, the government is hosting a global cyber security forum by throwing open the doors to foreign visitors, saudi arabia is inviting investment, collaboration and scrutiny. what's funny about this conference, this cyber security conference, it's not a conference, it's a forum. there are no stands. we don't know who is here, which companies but that's not to say the right companies here. there are
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companies from all over the world. people are chatting, introductions are being made. it predicted the saudi cyber security market could grow to $5.5 billion by 2023 but there is another motivation. a devastating attack but the country is still reeling from. the 2012 shipping attack was a massive moment. it was the moment when tens of thousands of pcs at the country's biggest company, saudi aramco, the world's's biggest oil producer, went down. they were hit by a virus, which is the name implies, it deletes all the files on all the computers where it's infected. imagine if you will, it's a bit like someone imagine if you will, it's a bit like someone breaking into your house, they steal everything but they burn your house on the way out. the hack, which has been blamed on iran, took out 30,000 pcs. this spread got into the company by someone receiving an email and they double clicked on the
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attachment. from a simple perspective, it really turned the dynamic on its head. we were thinking about the stereotypical, you think about some genius in a basement somewhere using all these commands where is actually now what we see is very, very simple, it's an email that comes through, there is a link in there and as long as you can trick the person into clicking the link or opening the file, you can have a very, very big impact. since then, the country has been under almost constant attack. no wonder the country is on a mission to improve its cyber defence and encourage local talent to flourish. saudi arabia was ranked 47 among 179 countries according to the itu, international to the communications union, and the un. throughout the last couple of years, the ranking has increased to be 13 globally. so we have seen saudi actually increasing the ranking, in a sense, because the ranking is directly linked to the level of commitment,
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the level of effort that country is putting into cyber. and here is one where the countries to rise further the ranks. this is a hacker training exercise run by site, a government backed cyber security company. the teams are trying to capture a digital flag teams are trying to capture a digitalflag inside a teams are trying to capture a digital flag inside a secure server. so you are basically pretending to be hackers, you are. we are hackers. to break into the system. we log into the system and try to find where is the catches. capture the flag will make you challenge yourself, how could you pass the firewall, the login credentials and a lot of cyber security controls. staying ahead of hackers is very tough, because technology advancement, the pace of technology advancement, the pace of technology advancement, is way fast, is way higher than the advancement we see in cyberspace. amongst all the
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positivity here, and there is a lot of positivity, there is also an unspoken truth. many of the people i've been speaking to, the international guests, i decided not to bring their devices, laptops and phones. this one isn't my usual phones. this one isn't my usual phone and the reason for that is that there is concern about potential surveillance. last month, amazon boss jeff potential surveillance. last month, amazon bossjeff bezos accused saudi arabia's crown prince of packing his phone. he received the file via what's up, it was a video file and upon clicking that, opening that, that infected his bones with a backdoor and that allowed someone to siphon off all his data. the kingdoms says the allegation is absurd however according to the united nations, there is also strong indications that saudi arabia telephone of dissidentjournalists jamal khashoggi before he was killed in the saudi embassy in turkey in 2018. it all raises questions which i put to the country's cyber division. how do you think saudi arabia will respond to issues of
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cyber surveillance? as i mentioned earlier, our main focus is thinking how we ensure that we defend and protect our critical national infrastructure, putting the right measurement, whether it is standardisation, building our capabilities and also enhancing those cyber protection efforts. saudi is clearly trying to move on from a comfortable —— uncomfortable allegations. the conference is a major part of this and the centrepiece of the event shows an emphasis again on defence, a game that puts players in the hot seat of an attack. so you're an it specialist and you are representing a petrochemical plant. so we're going to go through the whole phase ofan going to go through the whole phase of an attack. so we've obviously got employees and they downloaded and files, malware. we need to stop more employees from downloading them. correct. we are out of time! oh, no. saudi arabia is at a crossroads, it's opening up to the world and its clea ra nce wa nts it's opening up to the world and its clearance wants to be a big player on the cyber security stage. it
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would be naive to think that other nations don't hack the security for economic regions but an emerging force like saudi has to decide whether it wants to be a scene as a tea m whether it wants to be a scene as a team player or kept at arm's length. almost there. hey. you take that. well done. here we go. there we go. hello, and welcome to the week intact. it was the week huawei lost its challenging us court the band from adding government agencies working with the company. apple warned disruption in china from the coronavirus would disrupt reduction of iphones. in the world's richest person, jeff bezos, pledged $10 billion of his $130 billion fortune to help address climate change. in new jetpack news, it to help address climate change. in newjetpack news, it seems we are ever closer to a real—life ironman. a team atjet man dubai reached a major milestone with a jet powered
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wing suit which took off from a standing start and then flew up to nearly 6000 feet in altitude and reached an average speed of 150 miles per hour and yes, they landed. in underwear optional. from rockets to bangers. have you ever had problems grilling the perfect hot dog? there is a robot for that. jacob and baxter, great names, are machine learning robots developed by boston university that are able to com plete boston university that are able to complete a more public ‘s task of cooking and setting up a good sausage. cooking and setting up a good sausage. and finally, would you trust a d or drone? researchers at university art reverse engineering be brains to help create more advanced drone software. tania let quote is inserted into the bees brains will analyse the flight parts to work out how they can reliably navigate a 3d environment over several kilometres. unbelievable? sorry. for over 30 years,
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several kilometres. unbelievable? sorry. for over30 years, london fashion week is what the latest trends and streetwear and couture to the capital. whether spring orfall collections, it follows the same format. catwalk shows from designers p°ppin9 format. catwalk shows from designers p°pping up format. catwalk shows from designers popping up all over the city. but in the near future, the popping up all over the city. but in the nearfuture, the catwalk popping up all over the city. but in the near future, the catwalk could look completely different. the idea of gathering together to look at seasonal trends could be obsolete. like many other industries, artificial intelligence is shaping the future of fashion. the designs, models and even the location of fashion week could one day be created by a computer programme. fashion week could one day be created by a computer programmem is possible to generate this kind of captions with al algorithm. a new course at the london college of fashion is looking at detail ——in detail at these issues, giving future designers and merchandisers the tools to work on this new world, influencing everything from pattern cutting to design. so if you know this type of algorithm, you can just
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mine all over your database. these images were dreamt up by an algorithm that by tens of thousands of photos. so this is a computer thatis of photos. so this is a computer that is designing the stresses? yes, so that is designing the stresses? yes, so this is a generative adversarial network that has been fed many thousands of images so it begins to learn what address looks like. it's incredible. and then design its own. so everyone of these is computer—generated. so everyone of these is computer-generated. slightly terrifying. and similarly, this is taking thousands of catwalk images from men's fashion week and beginning to understand what catwalk looks like, what a model looks like, what the close they are wearing looks like and generating its own catwalk images. are these real models was to mark these are computer—generated. 0h, models was to mark these are computer—generated. oh, well. so this person doesn't exist? no. it begins to question what we think are catwalk show could be. could we get
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to the point in the future where are computer—generated catwalk becomes as popular or as interesting as a physical catwalk? what do you think? it's not on the realms of impossibility. indeed, the ideas and projects the students are walking on —— working on would once have seemed impossible but they are certain the whole industry will soon change and having a background in al whole industry will soon change and having a background in ai will be essential to their success. in all the industries right now, it's important to be able to cross collaborate, to be interdisciplinary andi collaborate, to be interdisciplinary and i think this is really important to have a knowledge of everything thatis to have a knowledge of everything that is coming up and how we can use that is coming up and how we can use that in fashion. so with al, we will have a much more ways and options. like, instead of i do know sketching ten ideas, we could have thousands of them, you canjust select quickly what we find beneficial for our
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project. but others worry about losing originality in this process. i think the danger is stripping out creativity because in many ways, that argument that designers create something from their brain, it's not been done before but a! looks at everything that's been done before and create something new so i think there's this, like, paradox. does it mean that we will end up repeating the same things over and over or does it mean we will be given new ways to create? in fact, the ai may end up being more creative than humans because it can process so many more images than we are capable of seeing. the course is also preparing students forjob losses in their industry to artificial intelligence, especially in areas like pattern cutting and other repetitive work. this really is something you can't deny. it is coming and we need to be prepared for it. maybe these people can be educated in some sort of position
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where they will be using this a! to do thisjob but where they will be using this a! to do this job but if it is something repetitive, it can be automatised, it will be autumn eyes. next experiment will be feeding this algorithm photos architecture as well as the clothing to see what fashion designs it comes up with. an exciting time for those able to adapt but with implications for workers around the world, perhaps a need to think quickly about the direction of this important industry. that wasjen. that was jen. now that wasjen. now over 2 billion people on the planet don't have access to clean water. for over half of them, it would take at least 30 minutes to reach any. so nick has been found out how this safe water could be created out of an air, literally. access to clean water is a human right, yet over half a
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billion people die each year from drinking contaminated water. according to the world health 0rganization, according to the world health organization, in only five years' time, half of us will live in a water stress area. 50 for answers? i've come to south yorkshire to see a start—up with a novel solution. this company is harvesting water from then. water is extracted from the bottom of the evaporator, collected in the tray and pumped out for you. collected in the tray and pumped out foryou. 0k, collected in the tray and pumped out for you. ok, it's a collected in the tray and pumped out foryou. ok, it's a giant dehumidifier, but the game changer here is that artificially intelligent devices adaptability. when you take what is the real temperature, what is the real pressure, the real humidity, the system will further refine its control to make that the best way to operate. keeping costs down is
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crucial, so using the least amount of energy possible is key to stopping the way this works is air comes down through here, gets sucked in through the evaporator which pulls moisture out of the air stopping the water then drips down into the water tray and the byproduct, which is cold air, gets sucked through there which could be used for air—conditioning in the summer, and another byproduct is heat generated through the condenser, which could be used to heat homes in the winter or wherever it may be used. shall be given to taste ? it may be used. shall be given to taste? well, why not? there we are, water from taste? well, why not? there we are, waterfrom thin air. taste? well, why not? there we are, water from thin air. it does have an essence of machine about it. it does have a somewhat metallic... i mean, if they were to lick that machine, a kind of feel that that's what that tastes like. yum, yum. but i'm assured after few gallons circular machine, it tastes a lot at and makes a banging through. they have
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also developed a more mobile version targeted for the military. there are two systems built in for redundancy so that if one goes there a backup option. we know of some customers in the middle east who are shipping drinking water by helicopter. the cost of shipping drinking water by helicopter is $35 per litre. but derek's units of course come with a pricetag. $5,000 up to $100,000, depending on the size and type of machine. they can usually recoup it within two years. other atmospheric water generators are already making waves. 0ver water generators are already making waves. over in the states, arizona—based zero mass users solar energy to power its water harvesting device, and hogen systems say its
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next generation will too. but what we could get power itself from thin air? researchers at mit have devised air? researchers at mit have devised a cunning contraption that they have p°pped a cunning contraption that they have popped on the roof. the thermal resonator converts the changes in ambient temperature into electricity. there is a flow of heat co nsta ntly electricity. there is a flow of heat constantly going through the device and we have what are called thermoelectric is inside that turned that heat into electricity. so this device, just from sitting on the environment, will generate electrical power. mind. blown. it's a fairly new concept and even my collea g u es a fairly new concept and even my colleagues here at mit don't fully understand it yet. it is a new discovery. devices like these are also teaching us how to use this. how to tap into this energy which is all around us. it's everywhere, it's natural, man—made, we can plug into it, can be a persistent of energy. the secret sauce is the materials that store and release heat quickly.
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it isa that store and release heat quickly. it is a pretty quick —— perfect partner for solar cells. you have the thermal resonator taking the heat from the solar cell to maintain its efficiency when it is heated up solar radiation. so a solar cell loses about half a percent and efficiency for each degree it heats up efficiency for each degree it heats up so you can have the stamina resonator ca ptu re up so you can have the stamina resonator capture that and maintain its efficiency. what else can we get from thin air? surely not food?! well, scientist in finland are kicking up something called solein, a protein powder grown from microbes, carbon dioxide and electricity. its makers say it could reduce agricultural land grab by a factor of ten. while we may be a few yea rs factor of ten. while we may be a few years out from drinking water from
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the year, it's innovations like these, they could solve some of the world's biggest problems. people love playing video games, but making them is a different matter. the art of creation used to require quite a few skills, not least the ability to code. but over the past few years, content creation tools have become a lot easierfor content creation tools have become a lot easier for those who are creatively minded to be able to make their own games. guildford based developer media molecule enjoyed huge success with user generated games stopping the titles allow the player to create their own mini games and levels of. it's an idea we have seen revisited most recently with nintendo with mario maker. media molecule has been working on something that hopes can take that
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user generated effort up a level. you can make a lot of different stuff in dreams. stuff like this, and this. and even this. all that stuff was made using the same software. it's an ambitious idea, give everybody the tools to make a videogame or a film or even a 3d sculpture, all made using a games console. dreams is a playstation game which allows anyone to create, whether it's a game or a movie. i think of it as the world's interactive sketchbook. folks at home have been able to tinker with a version of dreams for quite some time, so the online catalogue is a ready packed with stuff made by the public. jamie was one of those early access content creators. his work
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impressed the team at media mollecule so much, they gave him a job. attached myself early, it is the most incredible thing early ever. are used to teach and now it feels like they can do my hobby for a living now. it is the best thing ever, i love so much. but dreams main event is making stuff, and could this tool ultimately end up being a source of inspiration for a new generation of games designers, filmmakers and artists? have you thought about collaborating with schools and universities? yeah, education and outreach to different groups is huge because they think dreams is a tool for educating people about storytelling, game making, programming. i saw a people about storytelling, game making, programming. isawa kid at a show playing dreams and his mother said to me, i don't really understand what he is doing, and said he's basically doing level electronics. he was a young kid and
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i've said, seriously, don't worry about it. this is a great mechanism. if he can do that and dreams now, he will sail through what he wants to do later. at the same time, a penny dropped in my head, this is teaching stuff, kids don't even know they are learning, they are just enjoying it and that is wonderful. and that's all we've got time for this week. you can keep track of the team any time on youtube, instagram, facebook, and twitter @bbcclick. hello there. some of us should see some sunshine this weekend but it's looking decidedly unsettled again. we'll have plenty of showers around and some of these will be heavy.
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snow across the north of the country and for most of us, particularly today, it's going to be very windy, with pretty widespread gales. you can see why. the pressure chart shows lots of isobars on the charts right across the country. a couple of weather fronts working their way south across england and wales, lots of showers packing into the north and west of the uk. so it could start quite grey on saturday with the bands of rain spreading south—east. most of them should clear away by the afternoon and we should see sunshine and showers, most of these showers across western areas, the odd heavy one, and plenty of snow showers across scotland. the winds featuring 40, 50—mile—an—hour gusts quite widely, 60 miles an hour for northern england and northern ireland, up to 70 miles an hour in exposure in the north and west of scotland. heavy snow showers will continue to pile through significant accumulations on the hills, and there will be blizzards as well when you factor in the strength of the winds. cold in the north but mild in the south, 10—13 in the afternoon. as we head through saturday
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evening and overnight, we continue with the snow showers in the north. further accumulations on the hills and we see a ripple in that weather front, which will push some rain back northwards to parts of northern ireland. quite a bit into england and wales, especially across western areas. milder in the south, cold in the north with the risk of ice. sunday, this weather front will be slow to clear from england and wales through the day, eventually it will do, so it's a slow improvement, quite a wet morning, i think, for many parts of england and wales. slowly, though, the skies will brighten up and cloud will come back across southern counties of england towards the channel. also, sunshine developing on further showers across scotland also begin. these will be wintry over the high ground, as it will be another chilly day in the north, mild across southern counties of england. that brief ridge of high pressure will settle things down for a while later on sunday and early into monday, but its short lived. this next deep area of low pressure will hurtle
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in on monday and bring a spell of severe gales and snow. some snow could be disruptive across the far north of england and the central belt of scotland on the monday morning rush. it will transfer north and revert back. widespread gales and severe gales in the north, further south, a belt of a rain sweeping east across england and wales, with sunshine following on behind, maybe or two showers. temperatures 10—12 in the south, feeling cold in the north.
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