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Season 2018
Episode 5: 03/02/2018 - Law and Order - Dubai
Air Date: February 3rd, 2018
Summary: A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news.
Click is in Dubai meeting the newest members of the police force, police bots. Plus a hospital where surgeons are using augmented reality in surgery.
Episode 8: 24/02/2018 - Your Face or Mine
Air Date: February 24th, 2018
Summary: Is seeing really believing? Click investigates deep fakes, software used to swap faces in video, turning Spencer into President Trump. Plus a hands-on with cardboard videogame peripherals and behind the scenes at a Sci-Fi fashion show.
Episode 9: 03/03/2018 - All Aboard To Barcelona
Air Date: March 3rd, 2018
Summary: Click heads to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to find out the latest in the world of smartphones, takes a trip in a holoportal and chats to the Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor of Star Wars - The Last Jedi.
Episode 10: 10/03/2018 - International Womens Day
Air Date: March 10th, 2018
Summary: Sumi Das has been to Stanford University to meet survivors of sexual abuse, and creators of Callisto - a new online chatroom where victims can talk openly and share their tragic experiences, giving them a voice and encouraging others to speak out. Plus, Click meets a man who believes the 1000 year old human could be alive today - He is the founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up supposedly developing technologies to help people live for hundreds of years.
Episode 16: 21/04/2018 - Can Drones Deliver?
Air Date: April 21st, 2018
Summary: Click looks at the latest advances in drone technology. The team travel to California to see what's expected to be America's first commercial drone operation and to Spain where they're testing a new 'drone traffic control' system, and discover how drones are saving lives on the beaches of Australia.
Episode 17: 28/04/2018 - Mining for Money
Air Date: April 28th, 2018
Summary: Spencer Kelly visits an Ethereum mine in Iceland. Ethereum has risen in value by almost 1000% in the past year. We also look at how UNICEF is mining cryptocurrency to raise money for aid and look at how everyday internet sites are being used to mine cryptocurrencies - often unbeknownst to those using them.
Episode 19: 12/05/2018 - Faking It
Air Date: May 12nd, 2018
Summary: Click looks at the digital tools that are being used to help authenticate works of art - as well as spot the fakes and forgeries. We also talk to the estate of David Bowie who tell us about a project the singer was working on before his death that would allow artists to authenticate digital art works. We go to the Google developer conference to find out what updates and new tech the company is planning and look at some of the tech that is helping people better deal with mental health issues.
Episode 33: 18/08/2018 - Summer of Sport
Air Date: August 18th, 2018
Summary: This week Click looks back on a super summer of sport with a compilation of some of our favourite sporting features. From the Tour de France, to Formula 1 to the World Cup we look at how tech is being incorporated into various disciplines and changing the very nature of sport itself. With exclusive access to the Tour de France and the Austrian Grand Prix we examine how tech can make the difference between winning and losing and whether the sports we love are becoming too reliant on the digital world.
Episode 34: 25/08/2018 - Sustainable States Special
Air Date: August 25th, 2018
Summary: Another chance to see Click's Sustainability Special. We visit America's first sustainable solar-powered town, take a spin in a solar-powered autonomous shuttle, visit the world's leading hurricane and wind research lab at the University of Miami and go down under to see how technology is being used to protect the world's largest coral collection at the Great Barrier Reef.
Episode 36: 08/09/2018 - Play Date
Air Date: September 8th, 2018
Summary: Click investigates the emerging phenomenon of gaming addiction - just what is it, and is it over-hyped or something we should all be concerned about? Click meets addicts, those treating them and people from the gaming industry to view this important issue from all angles
Episode 37: 15/09/2018 - Beyond Borders
Air Date: September 15th, 2018
Summary: This week Click looks at technologies that could be used at the borders post Brexit to see if tech can take some of the burden off and we are playing a Brexit themed game that aims to show post Brexit UK through an immigrants eyes.
Episode 38: 22/09/2018 - Live in India
Air Date: September 22nd, 2018
Summary: Click travels to New Delhi, India to put on a very special live show in front of a packed audience of tech fans. We speak to the CEO of Flipkart - India's first billion dollar company, ask if self-driving cars will ever take to the country's roads and discover if India is ready to embrace artificial intelligence and become a rival to Silicon Valley.
Episode 39: 29/09/2018 - Who Controls your Data
Air Date: September 29th, 2018
Summary: As the fallout from the Cambridge analytica saga continues and companies generally are under far more scrutiny for the way they handle personal data, we look at calls including at Labour conference for a new way of handling data which treats it as a public good, wresting it away from private companies.
We hear from leading economists and thinkers including Tim Berners-Lee about how this could work.
Meanwhile, we sit down with Planet of the Apes actor Andy Serkis to discuss how technology is changing the profession of acting and his work with the new secretive augmented reality technology Magic Leap. And we get a look around Google's secretive Moonshot facility where they develop prototypes.
Episode 40: 06/10/2018 - Billionaire Books Mini Break to the Moon
Air Date: October 6th, 2018
Summary: This week on Click we have a World Exclusive as we chat to Japanese billionaire and fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa. Yusaku recently signed a deal with Elon Musk and SpaceX to become its first private passenger in a flight to the Moon. It will be the first lunar journey by humans to the Moon since 1972. We also have an in-depth look at how mirrorless cameras are changing the camera and film market and talk to BBC Research and Development about a new technique that allows content creators to edit on the fly so that different audiences can see different cuts or a show according to their interests and their age.
Episode 41: 13/10/2018 - Bringing Colour to World War One
Air Date: October 13rd, 2018
Summary: On Click this week we look at the world's first piece of AI art to go before auction at Christies in NYC. We look at how tech is being used to help those living with ADHD and speak to Oscar winning director Peter Jackson about how he has restored and colourised footage from WWI.
Episode 42: 20/10/2018 - Big in Japan
Air Date: October 20th, 2018
Summary: Click will be in Japan to report from CEATEC, Asia's largest technology and electronics exhibition. We also travel to Los Angeles to report on the latest developments from Adobe Max where the company will showcase their latest products and demos.
Episode 43: 27/10/2018 - Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto
Air Date: October 27th, 2018
Summary: Click is in Japan to uncover the latest innovations in technology, robotics and augmented humans. We take a look at into the future where cars can read your brainwaves, exoskeletons can aid rehabilitation and a robot backpack may become your colleague.
Episode 45: 10/11/2018 - Top Quality Fake News
Air Date: November 10th, 2018
Summary: To kick off the BBC's fake news season Click goes to Kosovo to see what effects Facebook's reforms have had on the fake news industry there. 18 months ago things were booming with a heady cocktail of connectivity, tech savvy young people, few traditional job opportunities and the prospect of earning megabucks - how have things changed?
Also we revisit the topic of deepfakes to see how the techniques of face swapping pioneered by a niche pornographic community are finding legit uses.
And we hang out with Lyrebird the Canadian company who claim to be able to synthesise anyone's voice from just a small amount of source material
Episode 47: 24/11/2018 - Trailblazers - The Future of Firefighting
Air Date: November 24th, 2018
Summary: Click looks at what can help firefighters tackle blazes in the future. Spencer Kelly takes a look at the latest techniques in firefighting at the International Fire Training Centre. Lara Lewington travels to Lancashire to look at drones with thermal imaging to help locate the deep seat of a fire, wildfire drones that swarm to sensors that detect fires in a field, and a lance that pierces metal to fight blazes. Paul Carter flies to Switzerland to check out the latest in firefighting suits, a helmet that uses augmented reality to see through smoke, and a firefighting train. And Kat Hawkins looks through the lenses of the latest virtual reality to help investigate crime scenes to help train firefighters and police.
Episode 52: 29/12/2018 - This is Click Live
Air Date: December 29th, 2018
Summary: Click will feature highlights from its recent 'live show' at The Radio Theatre in London's Broadcasting House. Click treated an audience of devoted fans to demonstrations of the very latest in technology including dancing robots, drones and augmented reality.
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