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Season 2019
Episode 3: 19/01/2019 - The Big Talk
Air Date: January 19th, 2019
Summary: Click looks at voice assistants - what's in the pipeline and how much potential is there left to tap? We've visited Amazon to look at their latest research and to Israel where a start up claims its voice algorithms can detect illness in how you speak.
Episode 11: 16/02/2019 - Japan Special - Flames and Fire
Air Date: March 16th, 2019
Summary: Click is travelling across Japan to find the technology that sets the country apart. From the virtual YouTube celebrities, who don't actually exist, but have millions of followers online, to the disaster prediction technology that is helping to making one of the world's most geologically active countries safe. Plus we see how they're preparing technologically for next year's Olympics with new AI-powered facial recognition technology being deployed across the event.
Episode 13: 30/03/2019 - Policing Child Cybersex
Air Date: March 30th, 2019
Summary: This week on Click we look at the darker side of the internet. In recent years a phenomenon has emerged of webcam sex tourism - with the UN reporting 3/4 million people are online looking for sex with kids. In some countries like the Philippines - it's become particularly acute. The UN's children's agency UNICEF has dubbed the South East Asian nation "The global epicentre of the live-stream sexual abuse trade". We sent Richard Taylor to investigate the problem, and see how technology is being turned against the perpetrators to help bring them to justice.
Episode 14: 06/04/2019 - Preventing Pollution
Air Date: April 6th, 2019
Summary: Click looks at how vulnerable our infrastructure could be to hackers. The team also talk to the people who are taking classic cars and converting them to run on an electric motor and explore a bus that aims to clean the air as it goes.
Episode 16: 20/04/2019 - Bend It Like...
Air Date: April 20th, 2019
Summary: Click looks at how social media is being used in the Indian elections. They also explore the latest wave of AI techniques being applied to art and head to Japan to see how one company is hoping to make artificial shooting stars become a reality.
Episode 17: 27/04/2019 - AI Criminal Record
Air Date: April 27th, 2019
Summary: In California citizens can ask for their previous convictions for carrying marijuana expunged since it is now legal to use the substance. But, It is often a lengthy and expensive process which has resulted in affluent people managing to do it whilst people from impoverished backgrounds have to live with the record. Now an AI algorithm is hoping to correct this - Dave Lee investigates the software trying to help.
Over in Japan, Spencer Kelly focusses on the country's latest Space Race efforts - and Lara Lewington tries out the wearables analysing gait to potentially spot disease.
Plus a visual feast as we look beneath the surface of the latest visual effects behind the recent Dumbo movie.
Episode 18: 04/05/2019 - 5G Whizz
Air Date: May 4th, 2019
Summary: They are one of the biggest and most powerful technology companies in the world, but can we trust the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei? They have the equipment to run the next generation telecoms network - which will power everything from the superfast phones to smart homes and driverless cars - but as we come more reliant on this type of technology, concerns have grown about Huawei allowing this network to be used to spy on us and even shutting the country down. As the government prepares to make the decision about who will build the network in the UK, Click investigates one of the most important and controversial companies in the world.
Episode 19: 11/05/2019 - Facial Recognition
Air Date: May 11st, 2019
Summary: Police deployment of facial recognition is no longer the work of science fiction. Across the world police forces are rolling out the system, but the technology is fraught with issues - from civil liberty to racial bias. Privacy campaigners say that facial recognition in surveillance has advanced beyond any government legislation and is being used without any regulation. Serious questions are being asked - Where does the data come from? Who should be surveilled? Will these systems be abused?
Episode 20: 18/05/2019 - Rise of the Machines
Air Date: May 18th, 2019
Summary: Click looks at recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence and also addresses some of the issues surrounding the use of facial recognition. We try out the latest in virtual reality hardware and look at a camera system that could change the way that we watch football.
Episode 22: 01/06/2019 - The Tech That Helped Maisy See Again
Air Date: June 1st, 2019
Summary: Click returns to the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts for the fourth year with a show full of mind bending demos, as well as a look at the advance of artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality.
Episode 26: 29/06/2019 - 999 Emergency Earth
Air Date: June 29th, 2019
Summary: Click explores the sustainable technology that could help improve the environment. The team travels to Arizona to visit a company developing machines to capture carbon out of the air and look at how 3D printing is changing the way that structures are built.
Episode 28: 13/07/2019 - 1001 a Space Odyssey
Air Date: July 13rd, 2019
Summary: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Click lifts off with technology which will take us back to the Moon as well as a little closer to Earth - from the private companies that are building their own spaceships, to NASA's own efforts to return to the lunar surface.
The team looks at future methods of space travel and also debunks the myriad conspiracy theories that have sprung up around the landing, using science to prove that Astronauts landed on the Moon. And they find out why scientists are 3D printing geologically accurate moon rocks on terra firma and how they will help future space exploration.
Episode 30: 27/07/2019 - The Self-driving Revolution
Air Date: July 27th, 2019
Summary: Click is in Arizona, self-driving car capital of the world. We dive deep in to the technology to see how it works and how sometimes it fails with tragic consequences. We also meet the people whose livelihoods are affected by the technology.
Episode 37: 21/09/2019 - Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?
Air Date: September 21st, 2019
Summary: Seventy thousand Americans are dying each year from drug overdoses. Two-thirds are the result of opioid addiction. Technology companies have been accused of helping facilitate the illicit sale of drugs online, but are they really to blame?
Episode 42: 26/10/2019 - Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!
Air Date: October 26th, 2019
Summary: On Click we see the 50th anniversary of the internet. To celebrate we talk to its creator, Vint Cerf to get his views on what his creation has become and where it's headed. Plus as the internet disrupts democracy the world over, could it also provide a new way to govern?
Episode 47: 30/11/2019 - Blades of Glory
Air Date: November 30th, 2019
Summary: Click looks at the latest developments in accessibility technology for disabled people, including how prosthetic running blades are developed and manufactured, and smart homes enabling people with learning difficulties to live more independently.
Episode 50: 21/12/2019 - Clickmas Special
Air Date: December 21st, 2019
Summary: It's the Clickmas Special with bags of seasonal tech fun - we hear from Tim Peake on the year in Space, we pitch man vs robot to see who's the fastest driver around an F1 circuit and meet someone who has become famous making musical instruments out of old toys.
Episode 51: 28/12/2019 - Live
Air Date: December 28th, 2019
Summary: This year we come from V&A Dundee where we hear about the region's pivotal role in video games, drink water from a pollution sucking car and have a visit from NASA who show us the latest robots they've been developing which will soon be exploring Mars.
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