The Charity Samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year Long Partnership with a gambling company. Staff at Paddy Power Betfair, chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. Critics say samaritans shouldnt work with the gambling industry. Dan whitworth, from radio 4s money box programme, has more. If you are sat in the pub, you can tell a guy who is an alcoholic. Lets be honest, you can tell if a guy is on drugs. The man sat in the corner on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it is such a hidden thing. Critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well earned reputation by working with Paddy Power Betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa nys money. The mp, carolyn harris, who chairs the all Party Parliamentary group on gambling related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. She calls it distasteful and appalling. Others on social media, as well as the Charity Gambling with lives have voiced similar opinions. Both samaritans and Paddy Power Betfair have defended the partnership, though. Samaritans says it will work with the company to Paddy Power Betfair, meanwhile, says the charitys expertise will help it develop existing safeguards for vulnerable customers. There are more than 400,000 problem gamblers in britain according to the gambling commission, defined as people whose gambling compromises, disrupts or damages family, personal or recreational pursuits, with a further two Million People at risk. Things even now can just hit you. It is just something stupid that will set it off. You will hear something or see something or remember something and before you know it, you are tearing up again. It never goes away. It does get slightly better, but it doesnt go away. Now on bbc news as click passed 1000 episodes, they celebrated by creating the bbcs first ever interactive tv show, harnessing the power of a new technology called 0bject based media. This week, another chance to watch our 1000th episode, when we made the bbcs First Interactive multi choice tv show. There were flow charts. Elephants. Flow charts. Data. Flow charts. And wizards a warm welcome to click. Welcome to click. Welcome to click, i am spencer kelly. Finally we have reached a very special milestone. We have been on air every week of every year, without a break, since we launched in the year 2000, which means this week you are watching season 1, episode 1000. And to celebrate, we are making a world first. Doing new things is in our dna. I am floating on air. Which is why we dont just show you the tech, we use the tech to push the boundaries of whats possible on tv. Here is the team. It is mark on camera one and two, simon on camera three and four, jen on five, nima on six and seven, ben on eight and this is thalia on nine. This was the worlds first full tv programme to be filmed and edited only on mobile devices. Fyi, it was a nightmare this weeks click has been filmed entirely in 360 degrees. This was another world first, where we reinvented how tv was made, for an audience that could look in any direction at any time. And this week, for click 1000, weve really gone for it do i explore the cave, or do i look behind the tree . Ill explore the cave. So, turn to page 8a. This is how i spent a lot of my childhood, reading books where i could choose my own adventure, where, at every point, i got to decide what happened next, and every time i read it, the story changed. I absolutely loved them. Not only was i in a different world, but because i was in charge of the story, that story came to life. It felt so real. Come on then, spen. So, after choose your own adventure books came computer Adventure Games first with text, and then with amazing graphics. But both would let me explore vast worlds, bigger than any book. The problem is tv doesnt let us do that. It tells one story, it makes one set of choices, and we just sit back and watch. Until now. I demand freedom imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even how much time you had. If you go online at the address thats on screen now, you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. You get to choose which tech stories you hear about, and in how much detail. As you watch, youll be given options to dive deeper, or maybe to look at things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip one entirely. The Technology Used to make this possible is known as object based media, or 0bm, and it could be the future of how we watch video content. Broadcasters have been developing the tech for years now. Bbc r d has explored the concept with various online tutorials. The step by step nature of 0bm is particularly useful there. Netflix has had a dabble with its puss in boots, and, more recently, with Charlie Brookers interactive bandersnatch. And now, premiering the bbcs first 0bm tv show is us. To say its been a tricky, brain melting minefield would be an understatement. Its a little bit like trying to pick up ants from space using tweezers, with a blindfold on. These are all the plans that weve made to figure out how were going to structure this episode. And its really a bit of a beast. Doing 0bm is really not simple because you have to think about the stories in a different way, because people might have watched some bits of the story and not other bits, they might have chosen different paths through the story. I have been told to create 700 million versions. It has taken more brainpower than any episode i have ever worked on, and more teamwork, to get the thing out there. Trust me, were not talking to each other at the moment what does that stand for . Wizard. But we couldnt have done it without r ds otherworldly expertise. Matthew and his team have been devising an 0bm strategy for the last few years. A couple of years ago, we decided we wanted to kind of transfer this capability to create this stuff. We were busy engineering it, but we didnt have any tools. So, we decided to build a story kit, essentially. Their custom made software can handle hundreds of pieces of content, like video, audio and text, and put them together on the fly, as viewers make their choices. So, its a tool that is aimed at producers who have no Software Development skills, so the whole idea was to allow these people to then easily use an interface like a drag and drop interface like story former, to create those experiences. All in all, we think we have 148 different chunks of video, which, to my mind, makes about a gazillion different paths through the content. Theres also tons of footage, and weve used up every hard drive that we have. I suppose its been keeping me up at night, thinking are we going to get it finished in time . It really has been a challenging process. Theres been times when i had to dojust like. But we think, we really think, its been worth it. Putting you in the driving seat will mean, hopefully, you at home can enjoy the show more than ever before. At the core of being able to give you all these choices is the idea of branching narratives, possible options that lead onto the next bit, or reroute you to a part where the story can flow from there. To get advice on how to create our multiple choice click, i went to meet one of the creators of the fighting fantasy books i grew up with, ian livingstone. It involves writing multiple storylines at once. And how i used to do it was create a map, which i kept a record of all the encounters as you went through the adventure. Its giving you a choice like do you want to turn left or right, which is a simple choice, or do you want to try and tiptoe past the sleeping goblin or attack him with your sword. And the choices are quite varied. So, when im writing i have to keep a record of where the reader would go. So, if you make this choice, i need to make sure that they can actually get out of there, and then these are all the encounters. They find gold, they find treasure, they find magical items. Can i show you our version of an adventure map . This is the layout of this actual interview, which is multichoice. What do you think . Minimalist not too many options, so we should be done in less than four hours. Because it can take you days to get through a fighting fantasy game book. Good luck on your adventure. But with great power comes great responsibility, i mean, do you really want to make decisions about the tv programme and films that you watch . Would you rather just sit back and relax . And also, if you want to talk to your friends about what youve seen, but theyve seen a different version of the show, you dont have that common ground. And then theres another thing. Through interactive experiences, its possible to keep tabs on viewers habits, and you may be giving out more information about yourself than you think. Heresjen copestake with more. Extrovert or introvert . Open to new experiences or more comfortable with tradition . Were using the data we collect while you watch the 0bm to deliver a specific advert to you. The choices you made gave us an idea of your personality. Its certainly not scientific, but when you try it out, see if we were right. Researchers have worked out that even simple data leaks can give indications about your personality, with just 75 facebook likes being as illuminating as asking a work colleague about you. And with 300 likes, they can be as accurate as asking your partner. You can infer some very private stuff even from this data that you think is not too meaningful. Peoples personality, peoples intelligence, poeples political views, religious views, sexuality, really private stuff, just because you like camping and a few other things. Of course, we all recognise when facebook, google or instagram do this, showing adverts tailored to our online behaviour. This can be good if youre looking for a specific item, but can also be a bit unnerving. People often say Online Advertising is creepy, so you are talking to a friend, then later on you see an advertisement for the same thing you were talking about. It mightjust be that you were talking to your friend, but then the fact you are talking to someone else, they may search for something, and then suddenly you are seeing an advert for something that theyre interested in. They infer you are friends and therefore probably have similar interests. If all this creeps you out a bit, we had a look to see some of the tools online that may help obscure your data trail. First up, you might want to get rid of the cookies stored on your browser. These store personal data like your login, emailaddress and what is in your shopping basket. Clear the cookies from your web browser using the appropriate menu. In chrome, it is in the history settings. In safari, look in preferences and privacy to block all cookies or manage which ones have access. Cookies arent the end of the problem. Other types of trackers can still follow you around. Some ad blockers and anti tracking tools can show you whos watching. Privacy badger from the Electronic Frontier foundation is free to add to your browser. It shows you which domains are following your online movements and lets you choose which ones to allow or block. Ghostery flags more spying eyes. Other services will help you stay on top of trackers, for a price. Disconnect. Me has a Free Basic Service for desktop as well as smartphone apps. For 50 a year, you can get a full vpn and tracker protection for three devices. Still, even with all these tools, you may not be completely private or untracked. Have a look at who tracks me. It shows some popular entertainment and news sites are crawling with unseen trackers. If, like more than 60 of us, you use chrome, it wont be easy to stop google keeping tabs on you. However, an alternative like Mozillas Firefox is privacy focused. When you install firefox, you see the privacy settings it offers straight away. Firefox is also the only major open source browser, which means anyone can check its code, making it more trustworthy. Finally, there are some more whimsical ways you can try and obscure your data. The go random plug in lets you confuse facebooks snoopers, randomising your emoji reactions, preventing their ability to build a personality data profile. Be warned this might get you in trouble if you end up laughing at something awkward another tool designed by ben grosser is the demetricator. The demetricator hides the like counters on twitter and facebook so you arent giving out data or being influenced by what others are liking. Instagram made its own version of this too. That wasjen. So, how might algorithms change what you watch in the future on tv, based on your personal data . Well, to simulate this, we have taken dan simmons report on tech in malawi and tailored it for a viewer who we know is interested in inventions and the environment, but who likes watching shorter reports. This could be the result. With an average income ofjust a few dollars a day, this part of the world is known as one of the poorest on the planet. Whats less well known is how quickly malawis two main cities, the capital, lilongwe, and the commercial centre, here in blantyre, are expanding, as are their horizons. Malawi has a lot more high tech than you might think going on. Do you want to know more . Well, how long have you got . Researchers are developing artificial intelligence, creating smart homes, predicting Health Problems and making Old Computers work again for the whole continent. In some ways, malawis cities look and feel like many others. There are plenty of shops and services, New Buildings are going up but, importantly, there is a real need here for more simple tech that makes life better without the need for power. Only a fraction of the country is actually on the power grid and even those who have it, well, historically, its been unreliable. Demand far outstrips supply. And it gets hot here as well in the summer between 30 and 35, even now, at a cooler time of year, it gets up to the mid 20s. Im on my way to meet a very cool inventor who specialises in sustainable tech. Hey, adis. Hi, dan. Hi. Thanks for having us over. Nice workshop anaele iroh, or adis, as hes better known, leads a team of half a dozen or so at his home in blantyre. All sorts of things are being hacked together here. Its a mash up of ideas. This skeleton car will be on the road next month, im told, powered in part by steam. This tin can electric car uses phone id for security. And thats just one sim card that that works with . Even adiss pottery wheel helps power things up. So, has anybody before called you a Mad Professor . With all of this stuff . Well, yes, ive gotten quite used to that in the heat of the day, ive come to see a prototype addis is particularly proud of. Well, this is the zero electric Climate Control system. The main thing here is what i call the cooling element. Where it takes water and it presents it to the environment, right . So the heat and the environment help it evaporate. That process cools things down. It sounds very simple, but there is a bit more to it than that, isnt there . Here, we have formulated materials that already are folded up so tightly that they shrink a large amount of space into a very small space, right . At nano scale. When we put water into it, that water can be spread out and it can use up heat more efficiently to close it. What sort of results have you found by putting this prototype into various situations . Well, my neighbour here, for example, has one unit that he is using for the whole building. So, he had found that on one side of the building, he had 28 degrees centigrade, and on the side of the building where one of these Climate Control systems was installed, he had 25 degrees centigrade. Right. Time to test our Water Climate cooler. So, did the invention work . Thats the question. Well, you can find out by watching the click 0bm show online and choosing to watch dans piece. Of course, there are many more adventures waiting for you there too. We are really proud of our Interactive Programme and we would love you to stop by and choose your own path through it. The address is on screen now bbc. Co. Uk click1000. We think its a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary. There is another way too, of course, and that is to crack open the archive, look at the silly old tech and try and ignore the haircuts hello. Im stephen cole. A warm welcome to click online, the first of a new series for all those interested in new technology and the internet. In april 2000, the bbc decided to explore the exciting new world of the dot com bubble and, in a spectacular piece of timing, click online went on air just as it burst. As online dog walkers and wine tasting services tumbled around our ears, the programme went looking for the next big thing. I told you i could do it. We didnt always find it. 0h oh, i forgot to change the batteries . But every so often, we backed a winner. Gmail is a free email service. Twitter. Com is as simple as it gets. Its called bluetooth. The device, with some never before seen features, has been billed as nothing short of revolutionary. We have met all sorts of amazing characters on our travels. Its me, mario and i mean all sorts. La, la, la, la, la la hey we pushed tech to its limits. 0h sometimes we pushed it too far. We are going to build an artificial intelligence. And sometimes, it pushed back. They came here on a sort of gold rush, promised riches from waste thats slowly poisoning them. Right now, over 20,000 compromised personal computers are under our control. Its been a pretty intense experience, but the thing that it has really left me with is i want to hold onto my data. Over the past 19 years, we have built it. We have flown it. We have ridden it. Weve broken it weve worn it. Even the electric shorts wow and weve played it. And, boy, have we played it weve gone live. Weve seen the very highest tech. This is a bit spiritual, really. And the lowest over 1,000 shows, its been an enormous privilege, for all of us, to bring all of you the tech thats changed the world. Refreshing or not. Come on, percy. Yeah, it certainly feels like weve seen it all, but i have a suspicion that there is much, much more to come on behalf of everyone who has worked on this programme over the years and there have been many thank you. Thank you for watching and we will see you next time. Hello there. Sunday is the first day of meteorological autumn. And for the early days of september, it is going to feel a little on the chilly side. We have got this band of cloud that swept across the country yesterday. Its behind that that were drawing in this cooler, fresher air on a north westerly breeze and that is going to bring some more showers, particularly across Northern Ireland and scotland overnight. But in between those showers, there is still a chance of catching the Northern Lights for northern areas. Its further south across the uk that will have some longer, clearer skies. With that cooler air coming down, temperatures will be dropping away. It will be chillier than it was last night. 7 9 degrees in towns and cities. Cooler than that, though, in rural areas. A sunny start, though, for many parts of england and wales. Scattered showers for a while in Northern Ireland, some heavier thundery ones pushing eastwards across scotland, across Northern England and down towards the wash. Very few showers for the midlands, good chance it will stay dry in southern england. Temperatures may sneak up to 20 degrees. But further north with those showers, it is a cool 15 or 16, but at least it will not be as windy on sunday. Those heavy showers should clear away from eastern areas. Weve got another band of cloud and showers pushing through Northern Ireland and heading towards scotland. But some breaks in the cloud overnight and, again, another chilly one, particularly in North Eastern scotland where temperatures could be down to about 3 degrees or so. Into the new week, and we are going to replace the north westerly winds with some milder, cloudier west south westerly winds. Around the top area of that High Pressure and feeding in those weather systems, piling in the rain again for North Western areas. England and wales, probably a dry start, chilly, some sunshine, tending to cloud over a bit more from the west. We have got some rain coming into Northern Ireland, pushing into scotland, into cumbria, some very wet weather actually over the hills later in the day. 15 degrees in glasgow, 22 in london and the south east. So, a touch warmer i think on monday. Similar sort of weather pattern really through monday into tuesday, weve still got these brisk winds off the atlantic, a lot of weather fronts on the scene, but essentially, its northern and Western Areas that are going to have most of the cloud. A better chance of catching some rain and that rain could be heavy again over some western parts of scotland. Very little if any rain, though, through the midlands, towards east anglia and the south east and temperatures similar to those of monday. As we head towards the middle of the week, though, the wind direction will change again with High Pressure to the west of the uk. Well draw down cooler, fresher more north westerly winds, bringing sunshine and some showers. 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