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00:01:36tech. Now.
00:01:55We're on top of where we think the hot spot is, and we can see on
00:01:59on the camera. In fact, we're right right above it. We are. And you can
00:02:03can really smell it as well. Hi.
00:02:06Hi. Do you mind if I film this? Thank Thank you. Can I ask if I hadn't
00:02:10hadn't asked you if I was filming, filming, would you have known? Pretty
00:02:13Pretty much. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks
00:02:14Thanks very much. Private communication
00:02:18communication is a fundamental human human right for a reason. And you
00:02:21you undermine end to end encryption encryption in one point. And you
00:02:24you poisoned it for everyone
00:02:29here. A new wave of modern day farmers farmers are harnessing the country's
00:02:31country's plentiful, cheap and clean
00:02:34clean electricity to grow fruits
00:02:36fruits and vegetables. 360 degrees.
00:02:45degrees. This is the tech that can can find fires hidden beneath the
00:02:49the forest floor. Wow. There. It's It's there. It's really now cooking
00:02:52cooking away. The drones are a game game changer without the thermal
00:02:55thermal technology, we would be totally
00:02:58totally blind to this. The Cairngorms
00:03:02Cairngorms are the jewel in the crown
00:03:04crown of the UK's national parks.
00:03:07parks. There's something just so so special about being here. You
00:03:10You can smell the pine in the air
00:03:13air and you're really just at one
00:03:15one with nature. It's a sanctuary
00:03:21sanctuary to a quarter of the UK's
00:03:23UK's rare and endangered species. species. The wildlife and the habitats
00:03:27habitats that you find here are unique unique to Scotland. Some of the species
00:03:30species we're best known for are are capercaillie, the largest woodland
00:03:34woodland grouse species that you
00:03:35you find in the world. Red squirrels,
00:03:39squirrels, wildcat pine marten. This
00:03:41This place is incredibly special. But in the summer
00:03:44special. But in the summer of 2026,
00:03:482026, wildfire tore through 33km2
00:03:5133km2 of this landscape. Controlling
00:03:58Controlling it from the ground was was very challenging. We weren't weren't able to get it under control
00:04:01control and that's why we needed needed support. That's when thermal
00:04:05thermal drones were brought in. So So a couple of days into the fire,
00:04:08fire, it was clear that we needed needed to gather more information
00:04:11information that agencies were lacking, lacking, that aerial coverage to
00:04:14to inform their on the ground activities.
00:04:17activities. We scrambled up a drone drone team and we worked together
00:04:20together with the agencies on the the ground and provided a really
00:04:22really high quality set of information
00:04:24information from the drone. The drones
00:04:27drones helped crews bring the fire
00:04:30fire under control, but this is what
00:04:32what was left behind. You can just
00:04:36just see how black scorched and charred
00:04:38charred everything is. Take this this bark for example. It smells
00:04:42smells like a fire. It's completely completely destroyed. It's black.
00:04:45black. It's just such a shame to
00:04:47to see the devastation here. And
00:04:50And it's not over beneath the forest
00:04:52forest floor, fires are still burning.
00:04:55burning. All the while we've got got burning happening in the forest.
00:04:58forest. We will never be able to
00:05:00to relax. We're still on high alert.
00:05:03alert. There's still a duty for us us to be doing regular checks with
00:05:07with the drone and to pinpoint hotspots.
00:05:10hotspots. So before sunrise, I meet
00:05:11meet Pete to see if we can find any.
00:05:19any. Wow, this is stunning. So this this is where we'll start our survey.
00:05:22survey. And your job is to be the
00:05:23the drone spotter. Your job really
00:05:27really is to maintain visual line line of sight of the drone at all all times. It just means I can get
00:05:31get on with the job at hand, which which is turning on the infrared
00:05:33infrared camera and searching for
00:05:36for hotspots. There's a heat sensor
00:05:46sensor in the drone so we can see see ourselves just in the track.
00:05:48track. There. OK, so I'll just have have a really good scan now for hot
00:05:52hot spots in this area. What are are our chances of finding one today?
00:05:55today? Every week I hope that I find find none on the last thermal flight
00:05:58flight I did, we found eight. We We might have something here. I can
00:06:02can see a white hot glow just beneath beneath the base of one of the trees
00:06:06trees here. That really needs further further investigation. That could could well be a hot spot. This is
00:06:10is three months after the fire ignited ignited and we're still finding these
00:06:13these hotspots. So what we'll do, do, we'll go over there and see what
00:06:16what we can see. Let's bring the
00:06:21the drone a bit closer. We're on
00:06:25on top of where we think that hot
00:06:27hot spot is. And we can see on the
00:06:29the camera there. In fact, we're we're right above it. We are. And
00:06:32And you can really smell it as well.
00:06:35well. Every hot spot has the potential potential to cause another flare
00:06:37flare up in the right weather conditions. conditions. So it's really important important that we alert the land
00:06:41land manager here in this case the the RSPB, and they get a crew out
00:06:44out to this to put it out. Well, Well, yeah, you bring your hand around
00:06:48around here. I think the fire is is quite far under the ground. The
00:06:51The soil is feeling really warm to to the touch. I think this will need
00:06:55need seriously digging out and dousing dousing with water without the thermal
00:06:58thermal technology we would be totally totally blind to this. So I'm just
00:07:00just going to pass you this rock. rock. Wow, that is warm, isn't it?
00:07:03it? It's holding the temperature temperature from a small fire burning
00:07:07burning underneath the ground
00:07:11here. One hot spot found and reported
00:07:12reported but were not finished yet.
00:07:17yet. So it looks like it's yeah,
00:07:20yeah, it's pretty much there. Yep. Yep. You're getting closer. I think
00:07:23think it's under there. Does it feel feel warm at all? A wee bit here.
00:07:27here. Yeah. OK. Oh yeah. Wow. There.
00:07:31There. It's there. And look you get
00:07:32get smoke coming up. And just removing
00:07:35removing a thin layer of earth there. there. It's really now cooking away
00:07:39away and you just feel how hot that that is. Yeah, absolutely. So it's it's paramount that we report this
00:07:42this to the land managers and they they get a crew on this quickly to
00:07:45to put it out. I just think it's it's amazing that the technology
00:07:48technology has shown us where these these hotspots are. I mean, with
00:07:52with the naked eye, you can't really really tell anything. We've stoked
00:07:55stoked the fire a bit now and the the smoke is really coming up, so
00:07:58so you can just see how hot it really
00:08:00really is under the ground. RSPB
00:08:04RSPB Warden Cameron has arrived to
00:08:05to put out one of our hotspots. We're
00:08:09We're living in an age where the the technology is helping us fight
00:08:12fight fires. I'm excited to see where
00:08:14where that's going to go. Oh. 360
00:08:24360 degrees. With climate change,
00:08:28change, we're only going to see more more of these kind of events and
00:08:31and it might be flooding. It might might be landslides. There could
00:08:33could be other climate change associated
00:08:36associated crises that we as a park park authority and our partners need
00:08:39need to respond to. Despite all the
00:08:45the black and all the devastation, devastation, there are some signs
00:08:48signs of life. I've even noticed
00:08:50noticed a flower. So yeah, you can
00:08:53can see here we're actually stood stood in one of these little pockets
00:08:56pockets of resilience here, these these wetter damper pockets, they're
00:08:59they're little natural fire breaks breaks throughout the forest. We
00:09:03We don't know the exact impact of of the fire yet. The key thing is
00:09:06is we know that nature is resilient.
00:09:11resilient. It may need a helping helping hand, but it will recover.
00:09:14recover. Some of that will be incredibly incredibly quick. Some of it will
00:09:17will take years, decades or even even beyond our lifetime. Seeing
00:09:21Seeing those signs of life is really
00:09:23really heartening. I think without without drones in this situation,
00:09:26situation, we would have been in in a very, very, very different place. place. You know, we could still have
00:09:30have significant fires now. And they'll they'll continue to play an important
00:09:34important role in helping this landscape landscape recover in years to come.
00:09:38come. The drone survey is absolutely absolutely critical so we can keep
00:09:41keep an eye on the whole area. But But also it will allow us to monitor
00:09:45monitor and track that change over
00:09:47over time. The drone can be programmed programmed to follow a route using
00:09:50using what are known as waypoints. waypoints. It will take regular snapshots
00:09:54snapshots to build a continuous picture
00:09:56picture of the landscape. The standard standard drone route will have exactly
00:10:00exactly the same route flown month month by month, year by year, and
00:10:04and it visually it's going to give give us some amazing information
00:10:06information about how it's recovering.
00:10:08recovering. From finding fires hidden hidden beneath the ground to watching
00:10:12watching new life return above it. it. These drones will keep a watchful
00:10:16watchful eye over this landscape
00:10:17landscape long after the last hot
00:10:20hot spot has gone.
00:10:34Play Dua Lipa. Like hell to
00:10:38burn when I'm not there and you're
00:10:41you're by yourself. Hey, do you mind mind if I film this? Thank you. Can
00:10:44Can I just get a cup of tea, please?
00:10:46please? Thank you so much. Like I
00:10:52I like. Amazing. Thank you. Can I
00:11:00I ask if I hadn't asked you if I I was filming, would you have known?
00:11:04known? Pretty much, yeah. Have you you seen these glasses before? Yeah,
00:11:06Yeah, yeah. Do you like them? Yeah.
00:11:09Yeah. Thank you. Thanks very much.
00:11:11much. A positive reception here to to my smart glasses when the camera's
00:11:15camera's filming, a white light should should come on to indicate it's recording,
00:11:19recording, but the glasses have faced faced serious criticism for being
00:11:22being used by some to secretly film film and harass women and girls.
00:11:25girls. It should never, ever have
00:11:27have left the lab at Meta. It's a
00:11:30a tool for it can be useful for the
00:11:32the blind, but essentially it is is something that that doesn't belong
00:11:36belong in, in your glasses. You know, know, it should never ever have been
00:11:39been mass marketed to the public public in that way. Liz Hunter campaigns
00:11:42campaigns at Stop Smart Glasses, Glasses, which is trying to prevent
00:11:45prevent the mass market sale of smart
00:11:47smart glasses with cameras. Why do do you want them banned? The other
00:11:51other big tech players are in the
00:11:53the wings kind of waiting to launch
00:11:55launch their version of these glasses, glasses, and it's really so disturbing
00:11:59disturbing to think that soon even even more of these devices will have
00:12:02have flooded the market and it will
00:12:03will be so much harder to walk back
00:12:06back if it reaches that saturation
00:12:09saturation point, we hope that that that they become to be viewed as
00:12:12as just so tragic and shameful that
00:12:15that people choose to not buy them.
00:12:19them. Meta says it's worked hard hard to prevent people from disabling
00:12:23disabling their lights to hide when
00:12:25when they're filming rival brand
00:12:27brand HTC Vive Eagle says if anyone
00:12:29anyone around wearers of its glasses glasses say stop filming, the camera
00:12:33camera will switch off. Is the solution solution just to not put cameras
00:12:37cameras in them? Yes. To please.
00:12:41please. You know we don't need them.
00:12:42them. We don't want them. It's this
00:12:46this is a completely unnecessary unnecessary piece of technology when
00:12:48when it's used for the public and
00:12:51and they're not safe and they need
00:12:52need to be banned. Meta has now unveiled
00:12:56unveiled a potential solution. This
00:12:59This is the new product coming from from Meta. They're called Ray-Ban
00:13:01Ray-Ban Meta Audio. They do everything everything the current glasses do. do. You can listen to music. You
00:13:05You can make phone calls. You can can send messages. What you can't
00:13:08can't do is film on them because because they don't have a camera
00:13:11camera and they don't record anything
00:13:14anything either. These are our first first audio only glasses. We've been
00:13:17been working on them for two years. years. They're based off of the number
00:13:21number one feature that people love
00:13:22love audio. It includes music playing
00:13:26playing hands free calls and all all of it in our lightest form factor
00:13:29factor we've ever had before. So
00:13:31So that means no camera. That's right.
00:13:33right. There's no camera on these these glasses. They're very much
00:13:37much designed for maximum comfort comfort and be able to, you know,
00:13:40know, be our, you know, our slimmest slimmest profile glasses that we've
00:13:42we've had. And also no recording. recording. That's correct. Recording.
00:13:46Recording. Do you think that that's that's going to be very popular?
00:13:50popular? Yeah, we're excited about about it. We think that there's a
00:13:53a variety of different needs and and use cases for consumers. And
00:13:56And we want to offer different options options for different people based
00:13:59based on what they're looking for. for. It's also coming in at the most most accessible price point within
00:14:03within the product line. So if you're you're looking for, you know, a great great pair of audio glasses, we now
00:14:07now have a product for you. Is this
00:14:10this in response to the misuse of of the glasses? You know, we've seen
00:14:13seen numerous incidents haven't we
00:14:16we particularly involving harassment harassment of women. We've been actually
00:14:19actually working on Ray-Ban Meta Meta audio for two years. It's something something that's really borne off
00:14:23off of something we've known about about our customer base for some
00:14:27some time, which is that audio is
00:14:28is one of our top use cases. For
00:14:32For people who are blind and for for workers in trades such as construction,
00:14:36construction, smart glasses can offer offer hands free help by describing
00:14:40describing surroundings and identifying identifying objects. Other tech companies
00:14:43companies are also eyeing the market market and hoping smart glasses will
00:14:46will feature in lots of letters to to Santa this Christmas, but perhaps
00:14:50perhaps that depends on whether they they can lose their reputation for
00:14:54for being creepy. MUSIC
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00:16:18The risk is very real, but it's not
00:16:22not the shiny ghost stories that
00:16:24that the wild eyed boys are telling
00:16:26telling us right now. AI doom is
00:16:29is dominating the headlines, but but the President of signal, the
00:16:33the encrypted messaging app and one one of the most influential women
00:16:37women in the space, is telling us
00:16:39us to slow down. You would have to
00:16:42to draw back on a lot of this. You
00:16:44You would have to put measures in
00:16:47in place that slow things down, that
00:16:49that leave room for judgement, that
00:16:51that allow institutions and experts experts to say AI is not appropriate
00:16:55appropriate here. We should be insisting
00:16:58insisting on robust engineering, engineering, robust technical practices,
00:17:02practices, all of which slow down down markets, all of which might
00:17:05might affect valuations. Meredith
00:17:09Meredith Whittaker leads signal, signal, a messaging app built around
00:17:12around privacy as a core tenet with
00:17:15with an estimated 40 to 70 million
00:17:18million users. When you and I are are talking on signal only, you and
00:17:22and I can read that messages. We
00:17:24We live in a world where almost everything
00:17:28everything we do our connections, connections, our communities, our
00:17:31our locations, our preferences, our
00:17:34our communications are surveilled surveilled and logged by a handful handful of companies that use them
00:17:38them to sell ads that can give them them to governments that are picked
00:17:42picked up by data brokers, sold to
00:17:45to ideological fringe groups around
00:17:49around 2017. Whittaker gained public public recognition as a co-organizer
00:17:53co-organizer of the Google
00:17:58Cover ups have got to go. Which
00:18:00saw more than 20,000 employees and
00:18:03and contractors take part. A former
00:18:06former AI researcher at Google, she she had raised concerns about the
00:18:10the ethical risks of AI systems,
00:18:13systems, including their potential
00:18:14potential use in military applications.
00:18:17applications. I was alarmed by this.
00:18:19this. This is going to supercharge supercharge mistakes. This is going
00:18:23going to launder bad intelligence intelligence and bad data. This is
00:18:26is going to paint a veneer of objectivity
00:18:30objectivity and intelligence on systems systems that are basically just sort
00:18:33sort of, you know, drawing on the the same bad Intel that we've always
00:18:35always had access to. Whittaker and
00:18:38and apps such as signal face criticism
00:18:41criticism of their own. Not everyone
00:18:44everyone supports absolute privacy privacy this year, the UK government
00:18:48government said encrypted messaging messaging apps could face restrictions
00:18:51restrictions as part of efforts to
00:18:53to tackle child abuse and the sharing
00:18:55sharing of explicit imagery. Private
00:19:00Private communication is a fundamental fundamental human right for a reason
00:19:03reason and you undermine end. To To end encryption in one point and
00:19:06and you have poisoned it for everyone.
00:19:09everyone. It no longer protects anyone.
00:19:11anyone. If you and. I talk in five
00:19:14five years' time, what is the what
00:19:17what kind of conversation do you you hope that we'll be having? Right
00:19:20Right now our visions are being written written by people whose motivations
00:19:24motivations are often aligned with with the profit and growth of a very
00:19:28very narrow industry. Products and
00:19:32and technologies should not be dominating dominating the vision for what it
00:19:35it looks like to move forward as
00:19:37as a human population.
00:19:53With its cold climate and lava
00:19:56field landscapes, Iceland is a remote
00:19:58remote island sitting just below below the Arctic Circle. Farmland
00:20:02Farmland is limited here, but the
00:20:04the country has an abundance of heat,
00:20:08heat, water and clean electricity.
00:20:11electricity. And here in Keflavik Keflavik we're seeing how agri tech
00:20:15tech is turning that into an advantage.
00:20:17advantage. This may. Seem like an an unlikely place, but I'm about
00:20:21about to visit a farm below
00:20:27ground. This is an growing room. room. We are growing Japanese strawberry.
00:20:30strawberry. Wow, there's so many.
00:20:33many. When you think of Iceland, Iceland, northern climes, strawberries
00:20:36strawberries probably aren't the the first crop that. Spring to mind.
00:20:39mind. But down here more than 5000
00:20:415000 plants are growing. Two years
00:20:44years ago, Ken quit his. IT industry industry job and came to Iceland
00:20:48Iceland to set up this indoor farm.
00:20:50farm. I think Iceland is the best best place to grow Japanese strawberry
00:20:54strawberry and apart from Japan.
00:20:56Japan. So I decided to move here.
00:20:58here. The premium fruit is sold through through an online shop to local buyers
00:21:02buyers and restaurants. This one one is the best. Oh, that's a big
00:21:06big one. That looks delicious. Aroma
00:21:10Aroma is a good texture. It's a very
00:21:13very beautiful. Oh, it's very sweet
00:21:15sweet here. A new wave of modern
00:21:18modern day farmers are harnessing harnessing the country's plentiful,
00:21:21plentiful, cheap and clean electricity
00:21:24electricity to grow fruits and vegetables.
00:21:28vegetables. That's important because
00:21:30because facilities like this are are also energy intensive. Indoor
00:21:34Indoor farm use a lot of electricity.
00:21:37electricity. Iceland can provide
00:21:38provide natural energy from geothermal
00:21:41geothermal and then Icelandic water water is very pure. So it's a very
00:21:45very good match. From lights to watering
00:21:49watering systems, temperature and and humidity. It's taken many months
00:21:52months to get the conditions just just right. This is one of the new
00:21:56new agricultural system and how huge.
00:22:00huge. More than 45 hectares of greenhouses greenhouses and indoor farms are
00:22:04are now found in Iceland. And while
00:22:06while most food is still imported,
00:22:08imported, they grow crops like tomatoes,
00:22:11tomatoes, salads and even wasabi.
00:22:15wasabi. Meanwhile, Iceland's renewable renewable energy and cool climate
00:22:18climate has attracted another industry
00:22:22industry data centres and this Start-Up Start-Up has an innovation that's
00:22:25that's quite literally out of the
00:22:27the box capturing waste heat from
00:22:29from data and turning it into dinner.
00:22:33dinner. So welcome to the pod. The The recovered heat is channelled
00:22:36channelled to food growing pods converted converted from shipping containers.
00:22:40containers. Here we try with microgreens microgreens because they're super
00:22:43super efficient. After carrying out
00:22:46out trials at a data centre, this this demonstration unit has now been
00:22:49been set up in a business park to
00:22:52to run test simulations. We connect connect directly to the exhaust from
00:22:55from the data centre. The heat is is coming through that wall. Everything
00:22:58Everything is happening behind this
00:23:00this wall to mix the air and making making sure we have a homogeneous
00:23:04homogeneous temperature all around around the pod. The idea is to tackle
00:23:07tackle two issues in one go 80%. Of our fresh fruits and vegetables
00:23:11vegetables are imported. This is is a huge carbon footprint for the the island and also the variety of
00:23:15of fruits and vegetables you can can get is limited. So we started started the process thinking, OK,
00:23:19OK, how could we grow more food? food? It's still an early stage,
00:23:22stage, but the Start-Up hopes to to launch commercial pods later this
00:23:26this year that can support fruit fruit growing and greens. We're able
00:23:29able to capture heat at around 2527
00:23:322527 degrees, and that means we can
00:23:33can grow anything from microgreens, microgreens, strawberries, tomatoes
00:23:37tomatoes and what we're looking at
00:23:38at right now also is aquaculture.
00:23:42aquaculture. Less than 20km from from this geothermal plant, indoor
00:23:45indoor growing systems have been
00:23:48been taken to another level. So here
00:23:52here we have the green phase. So So everything. Is green. This dazzling
00:23:55dazzling display is part of an aquaculture aquaculture facility where Icelandic
00:23:59Icelandic firm Al-khalaf is cultivating cultivating microalgae. We are growing
00:24:03growing the algae from just small small flasks up to the big reactors.
00:24:06reactors. As you can see here, each
00:24:08each reactor you see is 10,000l.
00:24:1110,000l. The light is helping the the algae photosynthesise the more
00:24:14more light we can get, the more the
00:24:16the algae will grow. The algae is
00:24:19is fed CO2 and releases oxygen while
00:24:22while lighting pH and temperature temperature are all tightly controlled.
00:24:25controlled. We have lots of sensors, sensors, lots of ways to monitor
00:24:28monitor the algae. We control the the temperature mainly through the
00:24:31the air system. There's another benefit benefit of being in Iceland is that
00:24:35that we have a nice cold temperature temperature outside and we just take
00:24:38take the air, the cool air from outside
00:24:40outside to cool here. After removing
00:24:43removing the water and drying the the algae, they produce a compound
00:24:47compound used in dietary supplements. supplements. We have to break the
00:24:49the cells apart to release the xanthin, xanthin, and that goes into making
00:24:52making an oil like a resin. We then then sell on to other companies that
00:24:56that make small capsules. Running
00:24:59Running 24/7. It's a power hungry
00:25:02hungry process, but operating in in Iceland offers an advantage. We
00:25:05We also take our energy from a geothermal geothermal power plant. You could
00:25:09could have a facility in other places, places, but it would be much more
00:25:11more costly. So it just makes everything everything much more sustainable
00:25:15sustainable in terms of an economic economic footprint and also an environmental environmental footprint because of
00:25:19of where the energy is coming from.
00:25:21from. And so in a country where the
00:25:23the climate limits what can be grown
00:25:25grown innovators have found new ways
00:25:28ways to produce. MUSIC
00:29:22My dad was a farmer, but he also had a radio talk show for farmers
00:29:26farmers who called in with their their farming problems. He patiently
00:29:30patiently listened to every conflicting conflicting account of what was and and wasn't working. That was really
00:29:34really influential to how I approached approached my journalism. Building
00:29:38Building trust by taking the time time to understand a situation clearly
00:29:41clearly before reporting a story
00:29:44story in a 24 hour news cycle. Patience
00:29:46Patience can be so frustrating, but
00:29:48but it's a crucial tool. I'm Lucy
00:29:50Lucy Hockings on BBC News Now.
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