bots are a 21st century form of propaganda. whether the law and public awareness have kept pace with new technology. and while extremists and foreign powers use bots to influence elections and change our behaviour, it's only now that we're waking up to the threat. bots will form part of a formal investigation announced today by the information commissioner, she'll report later this year on how personal data is being captured and exploited for political purposes. i think there needs to be public awareness. somebody needs to pull back the curtain and look behind—the—scenes to see how all of this data may be mashed up, may be linked and may be used to push people in a certain direction. there has to be transparency around that. that's what the law says. but it's not yet clear how to protect british voters from bots. without strong defences in place, they could undermine the very idea of democracy in our time. amol rajan, bbc news. that's all from us. here, on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to spor

they're called bot-dots. the markers are to remind you to stay in your line. cal trans says they are too costly to maintain. >> reporter: that old familiar noise and bump on the freeway will now be a thing of the past. >> we will not have the bot-dots resting on top of the white stripe. >> reporter: cal trans won't be replacing them as they break. instead will opt for newer technology. >> we could get three to 60 years out of the other kind of highly reflective lane striping. >> reporter: the square raised reflectors are staying. >> those reflectors will remain every 48 feet. >> reporter: currently there are four dots in between, but the problem according to cal trans officials is that they aren't reflective enough, which is why as the dots fail, crews will now install reflective striping to divide the line. >> we've done a study of an area where bot dots were in use and where bot dots were removed and found no significant difference in the accident rates over a six-year period. >> reporter: some are skeptical of the switch, but cal trans said reflectivity is

a new generation of bots that are more human than ever. >> pepper, can you tell me a story?a long time ago, [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: powered by softbank robotics, pepper can be programmed to act like a concierge or just be your "friend." >> here, take my friend. >> reporter: it's walking around the innovation lab at singularity university, a think tank at moffett field nasa research park. soon, these kinds of bots may walk right into our everyday lives. >> i want to show the more cooperative side of robots so i really like demonstrating how these robots are making a impact in people's lives. >> reporter: matthew is known as the robot wrangler on campus building and program prototypes and he teaches entrepreneurs about social robots. his goal is to deconstruct the stereotype of robots as threatening machines. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: and bring the romanticized sci-fi images in movies closer to home. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: robotics say it's one of the hottest new markets in tech after growing at a rate of 17% each year, analysts predicting the robot market will be worth

a new generation of bots that are more human than ever. >> pepper can you tell me a story?> a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... >> reporter: powered by soft bank robotics, pepper can be programmed to act like a concierge or just be your friend. >> here, take my hand. >> reporter: it is one of many that can be found walking around the innovation lab at singularity university. soon, these kinds of bots may walk right into our everyday lives. >> i want to show the more cooperative side of robots. so, i really like demonstrating how the robots are making an impact in people's lives. >> reporter: matthew is known as the robot wrangler on campus. he helps build and program prototypes. and teaches entrepreneurs about social robots. his goal is to deconstruct the robots stereotype as threatening machines and bring the romanticized science fiction images in movies closer to home. robotics is one of the hottest new markets in tech after growing at a rate of 17% each year, analysts predict the robot market will be worth $135 billion by 2019. we already find artificial intel

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those are the mega bots, inc. this is a robot that is going to fight a japanese robot in the giant robot do yuel that everyb is looking forward to in three months. >> all these people, they're really into science and technology and making things. and that's the world wedge from at mega bots inc. >> wow. >> besides catching a glimpse of that mega bot, there is plenty to do there including drone racing. the event begins for me. >> they say that robot can move a lot faster but for everybody's safety, they'll leave it alone. >> giant transformer there, terrifying. >>> the season finale of "snl" at 10:30. >> see you again at 11:00. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. yes we can. isabel allende: i think that the bay area is a wonderful breeding place for women. this is a place of diversity, of inclusion, of tolerance. amy trask: i love that we as a society feel empowered. i love that we as

bot richard burr the republican senator leading the senate investigator into the possible russian ties said he is troubled by the timing and reasoning of director comey's termination. blaine alexander has more on this story. >> reporter: james comey went to los angeles as fbi director, tonight he's flying back to washington as a private citizen fired by president trump. >> the president trump made a decision that should be applauded by all members of congress. the public by in large will agree he lost the ability to lead the fbi. >> reporter: tonight comey outraged. his departure coming as the fbi investigates trump campaign ties to russia and election tampering. >> are people going to suspect coverup. absolutely. >> comey was not fired because of hillary. comey was fired because of the russians. the timing makes this clear. >> reporter: in his termination letter, the president said he wanted to restore public trust,

animal from a local shelter that's what a new app promises using artificial intelligence and chat botso match people with their perfect dog or cat. kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate shows us how it works shelterpal is kind of the "tinder for soon to be pet owners" a new app texting app can help you meet your pet soul mate and at the same time rescue a dog or cat from a local shelter. jarod reyes /twilio developer says: <" every year there are 6.5 million pets that ">jarod reyes is with twilio, a tech company based in san francisco that is hoping to make a dent in those numbers with their new artificial intelligence app that using chat bots will match people with their perfect pet. they are a cloud communications platform that powers the messaging in some of the most widely used mobile apps like airbnb, open table and lyft... if you text the world "soulmate" or "shelter me" to the phone number (980) 477-3728 that will start your converation with twilios chat bots. you will be asked if you want a dog or cat.. your zip code. and then a series of questions to narrow

and later, steve hartman with some school kids who are kickin' bot. kickin bot. my name is pam. 51 years old. when i was diagnosed with pneumococcal pneumonia, it was huge for everybody. she just started to decline rapidly. i was rushed to the hospital... my symptoms were devastating. the doctor said, "pam! if you'd have waited two more days, you would've died." if i'd have known that a vaccine could have helped prevent this, i would have asked my doctor or pharmacist about it. when they thought they should westart saving for retirement.le then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges. >> pelley: the attorney general of arizona is asking questions about kars4kids, one of the 9largest vehicle donation charities in the country. here's t

is it bots? is it people just making up stuff? michael: i started using the term maybe a year or so ago to describe a collection of trends that i was seeing in our public discourse, the debate and discussion about public policy issues. the first is a drop in agreement that i saw about facts or analytical findings that once were widely accepted. and then, we have the blurring of the line between fact and opinion and the explosion in the quantity of opinion relative to fact. finally, we have had, as you mentioned, the decline in trust in institutions that used to play to a role in being authorities about matters of fact and matters of accuracy. and i think the combination of those factors have produced a situation that i found it good to refer to as truth decay. because i think if we are going to understand how to turn back, we have to understand how we got to this point. soledad: did it start with president trump? michael: this isn't new. many of the factors that have caused truth decay have been in the process of getting worse for

i'm assuming this is snake bot. >> what gave it away? >> jimmy: yeah. i don't know, it just looks like a snake. but it looks very like -- it looks heavy. is it heavy? >> no, it's pretty light. so you're probably wondering, you now, why i built a snake robot or a robot out of a a snake? so the reason why we work on these robots is, you know, we want to solve some real-world problems. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> so one of them is providing a tool for search and rescue workers. another is doing inspection in nuclear power plants. and if you shrink this nice and small, we could do some minimally invasive surgery. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, of course. you can go down, or go up. [ laughter ] you can go up as well. it has a camera, i guess it has a camera, and like a sensor there? >> yep. so you can look around and get to places. see the reason why this robot is so great, is that it can get into places that people, conventional machines cannot. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's also good at climbing all sorts of objects. >> jimmy: can it climb me? >> would you want it to

there's no question that the new software bots do give an advantage.ut as long as your finger works fast enough you may still get in. don ford, kpix 5. >>> well, it looks like a regular yearbook until you see will smith and the geico gekko. a california high school's clever strategy to raise cash. >> highs only in the upper 50s an low 60s. redwood city, san francisco, half moon bay, and o.co coliseum, when do we warm up and when is there any rain to go along with this cooler weather? the answers next. what the bank first reported. la wells fargo say: >>> wells fargo is now accused of opening almost double the number of bogus accounts than what the bank first reported. lawyers for customers suing wells fargo say the bank actually opened about 3.5 million fake accounts and not 2 million which is what the bank reported. wells fargo has not commented. the lawyers are asking for a $142 million settlement against the bank. >>> good news for college grads from 2017. not only did you graduate; according to a survey of nearly 150,000 college seniors, grads can

possible the dollar bot onlied last week. if it goes from 97 where it is now to 105, which would be a pretty substantial mover for a country even if it sounded like not very much, and would cause a slew of international cuts for the companies located in the u.s. how about the shorter term daily chart of the dollar index. broden spotted another cycle here that reinforced her view it is probably headed hire. look at data for the past year. it takes the dollar 37 to 40 trading days from one low to the next. 37 days, employee. 40 days, low. 37 days, low. if we assume the bottom index was finished going down, as long as the key sport levels we mentioned earlier are not getting violated she is willing to be patient. given you the bottom line. on this very contemporary view, as much as i like the focus on the fundamentals of big issue companies, big issues like currency matter to the stock market. if you thought the horrible freaking super strong of golf has gone away, she says, not so fad and will resume in a minute. programs it is

monitor bots, infrastructure, externally the united states. >> the bot farms typically are overseas but they're appearing to be domestic accounts, but they're not attached to actual people in the united states though. >> one of the phenomenon we're starting to see is you're starting to see a migration of capability from the external infrastructure the way this is going to go next in my opinion, you're going to start see this in domestic manipulation. that's a part that for us right now, no, i'm not directly involved in. we do as part of the broader government effort, participate in generating insight we share with major social media providers to say, hey this is activity we're seeing we believe to be false or that we believe to be criminal or we believe to be supporting of particular groups that are a threat to the nation. >> you're actually able and relatively real time to share information with big social media providers -- >> in some cases. i wouldn't argue it is necessarily immediate real time. one of the things i try to do is get a critical center -- get enough i can try to show th

they were connected to the bots that are just out of control. now this new information about trump's twitter account being bomb-related by millions of bots, and it was such a new experience. i understand why people on their facebook pages would think, oh, hillary clinton did that. i did not know that. well, that will affect my opinion about her. and we were, we did not engage in false content. we may have tried to put every piece of information in the best possible light and explanations, but we weren't in the same category as the other side. >> so you weren't going to lie. good for you. >> well -- >> i see you're rethinking that. >> i'm not rethinking it. but everybody else better rethink it. we have to figure out how to combat it. >> my impression is that the left, the democrats, the liberals, whatever you want to call it, including bernie sanders folks and everybody, on the democratic side, which at one time, like 12, 15 years ago, was ahead of the republicans on tech as it existed then. is way behind now. and it is not just, there's a way to

on the other side, the fcc heard 444 -- 440,000 comments using a bot, using stolen identities. apparently a lot of the stolen identities were against net neutrality. internet is a crowning human achievement. what a wonderful thing that brings life and economic prosperity to so many people, provides a livelihood for so many americans. of course, we all care about access and we all care about the pipes and all of our friends that provide access should have a reasonable roi on their investment so people can continue to have access. but that's not where the magic is. the magic is in the content. what drives usage is in the content side. one of the reasons the internet economy has been so dynamic is that the garage server for tomorrow's great start-up has equal ability to be accessed by homes across the world than today's media conglomerate. that's what leads to the disruption in innovation that characterizes the internet and is inseparable from the internet. if the fcc moves to roll back net neutrality regulations, it opens the door in dividing the internet on ending the internet a

the bot nets are like pirates at sea. nobody wants them. there are real demand signals emerging for more organization. we don't want to out source this to the united nations. we do want to build it from the inside out. >> you agree with general hayden when he said it's up to us, we have to establish it first? >> emphatically. >> before you speak, general clapper, in the ndaa we have included some things on cyber, mostly to train, equip a force. but do you think this burden lies on us here in congress, or does it take leadership from an administration willing to step up? >> take the easy way out, it's both. you have to have a driver at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. but you have a role, obviously, in the ultimate disposition as well as at times driving the other end. >> and defining it? thank you. general clapper. >> i was going to strongly endorse air force guy. i think the law of the sea is a great metaphor. i would point out that took years and years, decades, hundreds of years to evolve. but there's a pretty sophisticated set of l

pepper is a special robot, a new generation of bots that's better than ever. >> pepper, can you tellme a story? powered by robotics, they can act like a concy arj or just be your friend. one of many that can be found walking around the innovation lab at the university, a think tank at the nasa research park. they may walk right into our everyday lives one day. >> i want to show the more cooperative side of robots. i want to show how the robots are making an impact in people's lives. >> he is known as the robot wranglers on campus and teaching people about social robots. his goal is to deconstruct the ster yoe type of robots as machines. and he wants to bring them closer to home. >> robotics is one of the hottest new markets in tech after growing at a rate of 17% each year, anliests predict the market will be worth 120 billion dollars by 2019. we already find robots on our smart phones and on products like alexa. >> they're going to work alongside to augment the work flow. >> reporter: there are already 20,000 peppers and robots like this one at work here and in japan. they teach peop

bot there are big contrasts across the uk at the moment, we see that in the uk at the moment, we see coming m, the weather watcher pictures coming in, grey skies, a bit of rain at times across parts of east anglia and south—east england today, look at this, another sunny day there, across at this, another sunny day there, a cross pa rs at this, another sunny day there, across pa rs of at this, another sunny day there, across pars of northern ireland, into scotland, as well, we have seen some sunshine, northern england into wales too, we have seen some bright blue sky in places and that has lifted the temperature into north—west scotland, we have reached 20 celsius, we have had that for the past few days. it has been wet for some with the cloud. east anglia, south—east england. we may find a few showers popping ernie els where. temperatures will be at their lowest where it is clear. more especially northern ireland and scot, and in scotland, a few spock pockets of fronting are possible. very isolated. a bit more cloud round in scotland, compared with today, but there will be be sunshi

but now, those highway bot dots are being phased out. don ford takes a look at the first bay area freeways that will see them go. >> reporter: they have been around for as long as you can remember. startled you to pay attention. a little round bump installed on the white lane stripes called bod tots. >> it's what they're going to start gradually phasing them out. >> reporter: caltrans says they are not replacing bots dots that are knocked loose not using them in future paving projects. caltrans says they are outdated. is there still going to be something on the highway? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: a noise or thump? >> the right one. not as much as these but what we found out is that there's no appreciable difference between the raised thermoplastic paint. it's sprayed on the road surface at 400 degrees. >> reporter: with sand and beads, it is cheaper an lasts longer. >> they are crazy. they are going to have a lot more accidents than they ever thought about. >> reporter: this retired firefighter says he has been to thousands of serious veh

corbyn hammers that home, he has got an advantage because may looks, some people are calling her the may botas tunnel vision. when she is challenged, as andrew neil did brilliantly the other day, she struggles. like the alien in those ridley scott films, who just repeat the same phrase over and over again. they are all guilty about. they all have their slogans. i know they are programmed to say stuff but she looks particularly so. corbyn was interviewed by andrew neill and was on the back foot a bit, talking about trident. he has been on the back foot. well gas, andrew neil is an excellent journalist. corbyn back foot. well gas, andrew neil is an excellentjournalist. corbyn has been on the back foot. he was asked six times about the ira and would not give a definitive answer. he has more achilles heels than he has heels, corbyn. he has so many weak spots. i think there will be more stuff about how mass and hezbollah, that the tories are just waiting to reveal about corbyn. i feel they have some stuff. dirty tricks, sadly sometimes when elections. let's stay with the telegraph. suicide bomber

before i could get to the off switch, that big bot walked off dragging my trailer with mrs.too small! (beeping) paw patrol, the the paw patroller! pups: ryder needs us! whoa! huh? (chomping) yummyyyy! look out! ugh! (crashing) it's raining marshmallows! (pups giggling) (barking, howling) (barking) paw patrol, ready for action, ryder, sir! glad to hear it, pups. 'cause this is one of our stranger missions. the robo-dinosaur walked away towing the trailer with poor mrs. wingnut inside. i knew i wasn't imagining things! that dinosaur came to life! ryder: sounds more like a mechanical mistake, marshall. it's not a real dinosaur, but mrs. wingnut's really in trouble. help! how do you stop a runaway robo-dinosaur? we'll have to build a robo-dinosaur trap. spy chase, we'll need your infrared goggles to spot that dinosaur in the dark desert. super-spy chase is on the case! rubble, we'll need you to scoop out a big hole for the dinosaur to fall into. rubble on the double! rocky, i'll need you to stretch out a rope so the robo-dino will trip over it, and fall into the hole. green mean

they were connected to the bots that are just out of control. we see now this new information about trump's twitter account being populated by millions of bots. it was such a new experience. i understand why people on their facebook pages would think, oh, hillary clinton did that? i did not know that. well, that's going to affect my opinion about her. and we were -- we did not engage in false content. we may have tried to put every piece of information in best possible light and explanation, but we weren't in the same category as the other side. >> so you weren't going to lie. >> right. >> good for you. >> well -- well -- >> you're rethinking that? >> i'm not rethinking it but everybody else better rethink it because we have to figure out how to combat that. >> that's my point. the left, the dems, the liberals, whatever you want to call them, including bernie sanders' follows and everybody on the democratic side which at one time was about 12, 15 years ago was ahead. it is way behind now, and it is not just -- there's a way to weaponize tech tha

propaganda, fake news, trolls and bots.d the snee on intelligence in march, russian state-sponsored media turned out manipulated truths, false news stories and conspiracies, end quote, provide iing a weaponize fake news effort openly supporting donald trump's candidacy, quoting while consistently offering negative coverage of hillary clinton. this was to watch a deliberate, well-organized, well-resourced, wide ranging effort, by russia use iing trolls and bots to ampy its messages across social media. these facts are not disputed by any serious person, so this is a yes on the checklist. hack iing and theft of politica information. throughout 2015 and 2016 russian intelligence services and state-sponsored hackers conducted cyber operations against u.s. political targets including state and local election boards penetrating network, probing for vulnerables and stealing private e-mails. attribute of these crimes to russian actors was confirmed in our last hearing and many other sources. so this is another yes. timed leaks of d

they were connected to the bots that are out of control. >> clinton took aim at the democrats, saying she inherited nothing from them in terms of data analytics, adding that the party was bankrupt when she got the nomination. >> bret: it was stunning, the level of detail on the technical side. then going after the dnc. essentially going after president obama, who laid it out further campaign. >> that's right. she had hired many of president obama's analytic team. that's what she had inherited. she took aim at the dnc. she really, there was a moment where she seemed to blame the obama administration for not taking and her and her campaigns concerned seriously about the russian interference. >> bret: none of that list told her not to show up in wisconsin. pretty amazing. thank you very much. more on this with the panel. as the former name and he is -- tonight, chief correspondent mil looks at what the democrats hope to accomplish in the next two months. >> democrats are revealing their summer playbook, trying to tap into anger their basis feeling. texas democrat explained why he was dre

the bots have small wheels and can't always handle the uneven sidewalk.o the prosecutors stay close by. but the idea is to one day make them totally autonomous and the team believes within 10 years, these sidewalks will be full of robots making deliveries. >> it's not just it, including mail, everything. it's going to be made by robots. yeah? that's going to happen. it's something that we can't avoid. and you want to be part of that. >> reporter: right now, they seem more like toys. but they are attracting a lot of attention. so look closely. because this may be a glimpse of tomorrow. the future is coming. and it's bringing burritos. in berkeley, john ramos, kpix 5. >> the robots are taking over. ♪[ music ] ,,,,,,,,,, businessman 2: we've gone over the numbers several times, and... businessman 1: yea, yea, yea...you know what i'm craving right now? businessman 1: (over speaker) --guacamole and bacon. audio tech: we got a craving! go go go!!! music: crashing cravings in the crave van. jack's gonna crash your crave! jack: hey guys, try my guacamole and baco

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