Venture has just made history by relaunching part of a rocket but that's not all this week he's also launched a mission to integrate computers directly with the human brain and his car company Tesla attracted significant Chinese investment its stock market value is edging up to around that are forward so how does he do it he is that kind of real life Iron Man really he likes to take big risks and so far those risks are paying off and I think this is how Musk lives He lives on the edge Plus after a spate of exploding phones and in the midst of a high level corruption scandal Samsung brings its newest smartphone to the market is the Galaxy s 8 the most important product launch ever for South Korea's tech giant and we meet Ken Levine a titan of the video games world my special guest is the technology journalist and gadget guru Jonathan Margolis That's all coming up after the news. Hello I'm Gerri Smith with the b.b.c. News the head of the main liberal opposition party in Paraguay says a young activist has been shot and killed during protests against moves to allow President Carter has to stand for a 2nd term Efraim in Allegro said the young man was one of several who were wounded when police opened fire on protesters inside the party's headquarters earlier protesters stormed the Congress and said fire to the building as anger grew over moves to change the constitution Laurie Blair is a British freelance journalist living innocency on he witnessed the start of the violence crowd that was moving forward and the police actually through but they were into the building and around the around the side of the congress building which gave professors look and work sort of who did in disguise a chance to actually run up the steps enter into the building smash with the windows and they didn't get to set fires the Venezuelan vice president Sami as the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to strip the opposition their congress of its powers and the early hours of this morning President Nicolas Maduro went on state television to declare that what he called the controversy had been resolved he then handed over to his vice president who asked the court to rethink its ruling. The Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo has insisted that Spain will have no say in the future of the British overseas territory his comment follows the publication of the use breaks of negotiation guidelines which say that any deal will exclude uble to unless London and Madrid strike a separate agreement Mark Lobell reports the British government has moved quickly to reassure Gibraltar of its support the foreign secretary Boris Johnson has spoken by telephone to Mr Picardo at stake is control over the territories a low tax regime airport and surrounding waters Spain also wants to take action against its rampant tobacco smugglers However politicians on both sides appear to agree a flexible approach to the border is still needed as 40 percent of Gibraltar's workers commute from Spain a cyber command is beginning operations in Germany today charged with shielding the armed forces computer and weapon systems from cyber attack here's our Europe regional editor Mike Sanders German Defense Ministry figures suggest an urgent need for the cyber and information space command nearly 300000 cyber attacks on German military computers so far this year based in the former West German capital Bonn it will begin with $260.00 i.t. Specialists but it will quickly take in nearly $14000.00 military and civilian personnel it's Commander left and in general the line always said the main task would be protecting military infrastructure including computer assisted weapons any offensive action would have to be approved by parliament just like a conventional military attack world news from the b.b.c. The authorities in Hungary a Jew shortly to start moving asylum seekers to detention camps near the border with Serbia but rulings by the European Court of Human Rights against the move could delay the transfers the court says Hungary and plans to keep migrants in converted shipping containers amount to detention. Australian officials have warned of flooding risks in 2 states in the aftermath of the fierce Cyclon that hits the northeastern coast earlier this week officials said that swollen rivers continue to threaten tens of thousands of people living near major rivers in Queensland and New South Wales the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urge people not to take risks to women in New South Wales have died as a result of these floods and our thoughts and prayers are with their families but the important thing is that everyone should stay side Take care look out for your family look out for your night but don't go in to those flooded waters that is the most dangerous part of these natural disasters getting caught up in flood waters as we've seen the White House has released details of the personal wealth of some members of President don't know trans White House team the disclosures which are a legal requirement show that his daughter Ivanka and her husband are worth up to 740000000 dollars The White House has tried to make a virtue the team's wealth saying that they had given up a lot to come into government. The organizers of the Euro Vision Song Contest have threatened to ban Ukraine from future competitions unless Russia's entrant is allowed to enter the country and take part in this year's show last week here crane banned the Russians saying Are you yes I'm Oliver from entering the country for 3 years because you bought it described as an illegal visit to Crimea which was an expired 3 years ago b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to Tech 10 chilled with regard to all the hearty strains in the technology business I'm recovering joins and this week we're looking at the man he can't stop making news in space with his reusable rockets on earth with his car for Tesla and now with a mission to look after brains up to computers yes we're going to be talking about it on Musk We'll also discuss a crucial week for Samsung as it launches the phone designed to wipe away memories of some recent disasters and we'll meet a Titan the video games world with a from the b.b.c. Take this is Jane wake your hello Jane and I get to see you again and my special guest is the technology journeys and gadget fan extraordinary Jonathan Margolies advise its Financial Times readers are now to spend their sizeable amount suspect cash on the latest tech Welcome Jonathan hello good to have you in the tech tent Here's a taste of what's coming up. While there's a risk that this could all come tumbling down I don't think that's going to stop you give you begin to fear. I should say 1st time I did it I was in my office and I did forget where I was it tricked me own of that soon 1st another landmark overnight for a tech tycoon with Intergalactic ambitions. For. That's a long Musk's Space x. Successfully relaunching a booster rocket that had been landed after another mission and landing it again on a ship by doing so he believes he's going to revolutionize the economics of space and soon our rockets have gone up once and then being chucked away but wait there's been a whole lot moon news this week from the tech tycoon he's unveiled a new venture near a link which plans to implant computers into the brain to treat disorders or perhaps turn this into cyborgs and he. Tesla electric car business attracted the attention of the Chinese tech giant 10 cent which border around 5 percent of the shares that's meant that Tesla's stock market value has been edging up to around that of food to put that in context food has been around for 113 years and made over 3000000 cars last year while Tesla is just 14 years old and made 84000 cars in 2016 I spoke to the electric car analyst an Iran must watch Nikky Gordon Bloomfield and as to why Tesla was valued so highly It does very much seem that everything is moving toward Silicon Valley and has obviously got a head start here because Tesla is being run like a software company not an auto company the big automakers or the Big 3 they're all playing catch up to Tesla in terms of vehicle technology autonomous vehicle and also obviously feel trading they are desperate to keep the status quo and I think the reason that Tesla is becoming as valuable as some of the big automakers is that it's willing to take those risks and that's something that Silicon Valley investors absolutely love is part of it the fact that he's so much more than just a car maker we've had this extraordinary news about a new venture which will basically tap into the human brain and we in the middle of latest space x. Mission boldly going where no such space mission has gone before yeah I mean he is that kind of real life Iron Man really he likes to take big risks and so far those risks are paying off this new venture called near a link and the idea that you can put computer chips into the brains of people who have a less or other debilitating neurological conditions and give them back their lives it is the stuff of science fiction and I think that's one of the reasons why he's he's making such big ways because. He's willing to take those risks and willing to make those steps that no other people do but the other thing that somebody mentioned to me this week is that Tesla and mask and all of masks other companies are doing what they're doing because of the way that they are approaching problem solving they're doing away with a lot of these traditional industrial age processes space x. Is a great example the Falcon 9 rocket that has gone to space before which is going to slash billions of dollars off the cost of space travel there is a chance and somebody with a good chance that all of this will come tumbling down and he's constantly teetering on the edge of disaster recently he is has a recently closed a reasonably sized funding round in which in long Musk purchased a large number of shares now he has borrowed money up to the hilt to buy shares and he's then going to sell those on in the future so one of the reasons why he's a majority shareholder in Tesla is because he's borrowed a huge amount of money and I suspect also that's helped inflate Tesla's market cap but there are other companies now coming in Tencent which is ages 2nd highest value tech firm has just purchased a 5 percent share in Tesla which is you know phenomenal while their risk is still very high the rewards for these companies that are reeling to take that risk and China is willing to take the risk right now is phenomenal and while there's a risk that this could all come tumbling down I don't think that's going to stop mask that's how we lives it's how we lived at university it's how he lived when he did Pay Pal It's how he lived at the very early days of Tesla you know it was a point in Texas history where he had to write personal checks to keep the company float and I think this is how Musk lives He lives on the edge Mickey Gordon Bloomfield. Jane Wakefield from the big. Tech desk. Another barmy mission launched this week with his He's brain brand I mean they all sound completely parking that at 1st don't they but some of them pay off yeah I mean everybody loves a colorful character and there's no more colorful a needle mask is there I think his vision modest vision is to change the will and humanity and you know frankly the right he's going he may well today he tweeted in December that he hated the traffic you tell a couple of months later he'd started big building tunnels space x. Headquarters to sort of try and create a new whole new way of getting around the city say. This is interesting he's a I company I think interesting and it's set up as a sort of medical for but you can see maybe playing into his theists about Ai taking over the world when he becomes super intelligent he can create saw Boggs we sort of can equally take place equally with the super intelligent I always perhaps John of the mugger is a special guest you would believe because there is a lot of hype around him and shares go up and then they go zooming down again because quite often he's a least late in delivering on his products and it's not clear he's making much money yet from any of these things or who is in Silicon Valley I mean I love the guy and I love the tech I worry about the space thing because. I'm very own direct called being skeptical about private space missions because you know 5 percent of people have died in space and whereas army type Red Army type people NASA type people are prepared to take that risk I'm not sure anybody and I include Virgin Galactic you really go into space but the rest of it I mean Tesla is fantastic I actually drove one in the early days and the most wonderful thing I've ever driven cause it could be a problem if anybody ever invents a liquid fuel that could knock out electric cars and the guy himself I mean he's a bio pic in the making it'll make a Mark Zuckerberg movie look really really. Bland here's a guy who you know gets married gets unmarried marries a same person a 2nd time divorces or is. 2nd time and he's background is fascinating he was seriously bullied at school he was behaving I love this idea of him kind of employing the bullies to watch his car like in the back to the future but if he's going to he's going to give us plenty of color for years to come on take then you can be sure that now for the world's biggest mobile phone Make it has to say the least been a trying few months 1st the Samsung Note 7 had to be withdrawn after it showed a tendency to overheat and cat fire then the firm's boss was arrested and charged with corruption in a bribery scandal which has rocked the South Korean government so a lot was riding on the launch of its new flagship device this week. I give you begin to feel a. Shade. And ate fresh. That's how the new device was announced in a typical with Smart Phone launch in New York by Samsung's mobile boss d.j. Co but will it work the trick and is this lady's friend really more innovative than anything else out there to find out more tech tent Zoe Kleiman spoke to Samsung's John Daniel a move from the company's mobile division we have taken a much larger screen and we would normally and put it in smaller form factor so we have created a phone based on the Infinity display that naturally blends into the design and hence is the view ability and the usability of the phone and the motion of the experience you can have with your smartphone a great camera a greater interaction a fantastic quite h.d. Plus screen and a beautiful design obviously the next 7 has been a painful experience for sounds and what have you learned from much and we took a lot of lessons on the on the battery and we have implemented new types of control new quality assurance processes. We are of course implementing in the production of the S.A.T.'s a plus but not only in all films or all on manufacturing process have benefited from the experience we gained through this painful experience let's talk briefly about the digital assistant that is mean to this thing can you tell us about it so is a new way to interact with your phone in a more easy more contextual and a multi-modal way multi-modal meaning different ways to interact with your phone you can also be to take all the pictures you have taken in a Nandan today and show them to you in a much more natural and we way than you would do with your finger and send them to my wife for example I could tell 2 bits before exam because the I don't want to be disturbed for the next 2 hours and Bigsby will automatically understand me and put the phone in do not disturb mode for the next 2 hours let's talk about the plus we have got a bigger screen. More powerful fame but not a big that in this model we have a smaller phone actually so the galaxy s 8 is actually now or then the galaxy s 7 so we are constrained with the size of the device and we have made all the efforts to make the perfect integration of all the components so we have the the biggest battery we can put in this colorful do you think that customer feeling about the brand of Samsung has been damaged by everything that happened last year we have actually witnessed a lot of faith and a lot of loyalty. And we want to give them the insurance to reassure them that 1st of all this will never happen again but. This and not only did we learn we made the community benefit of this because we created this advisory board of the battery experts we created this 8 point battery check that we have. We talked to everybody so we want to make the industry move forward not only with with what happened with the next the next generation of devices. And Danielle aim from Samsung's mobile division their journey of the Margolis has that brand been damaged I mean it was a huge disaster wasn't the 7 we all wrote about a lot got very excited about it all that all the while Samsung has continued to sell other phones and share prices continue going up when I look around me you know different cities and towns it seems that the public a pretty hot on Samsung I mean it's the one phone you see as much as an i Phone wherever you go in the world they're very very beautiful phones my problem with the whole smartphone race now is that it's really kind of over I mean when somebody's trying to explain the big speech just slightly different from Google is that fractionally different from Siri I mean the comes a point when who cares and they don't need to try too hard oh you know you're saying yeah they and Apple have basically won the same one and they've done it now what Apple do when they have to do their version which I mean if I were Apple I'd say we're not going to call it phone anymore we're going to call it a computer or something because it's not nobody makes phone calls anymore. Somebody has to put new life into this this battle what can Apple do other than you know curve to screen out a bit just like a Sampson they hate following Samsung but they've kind of been forced to. The other problem is people keeping their phones for longer because they're really very very very good machines now. Bigsby that they're making a big big play this. All those we've been hearing about them for a long time series been around for a long time are they finally beginning to make a difference to the way we use our phones for me they're all as good as the information that's put into them. On the way to the studio I needed to find a pharmacy so I asked Siri to take me to the nearest chemist and told me about some record Brooks pharmacy close to here broadcasting house. What it meant was Boots pharmacy which is much better now than the nonexistent Brooks former pharmacy so that's a case where garbage is gone in garbage comes out we still yet we still need to make a bit of progress on making ever choice isn't really that useful it strikes me you're listening to Tech Turn on the b.b.c. World Service with me Rory Catherine Jones in a moment we'll meet the man behind the legendary videogame Bio Shock. First though let's look at some of the rig's other big tech stories with Jane Wakefield Jane a big Rover previously in the United States Congress voted to do way with restrictions on the way Internet providers can use customer data was about and how our opponents of it fighting back yes this is rolling back on a rule which said that Internet service providers had to ask permission from their customers before they sold browsing data they will be able to do that now but it's likely it will be anonymised in some ways it just brings I s P's into service providers in line with firms such as Google and Facebook which already do that but it has generated lots of anger on Twitter and a couple of crowdfunding campaigns which have promised to purchase the internet history of all legislators members of Congress and their families in protest the only problem with this is that there's another law the u.s. Code Te