very difficult. it is like a roller—coaster and you to hold on for the ride. there are ups and downs. it is all about persistence. i want to be successful and successful in the music industry, so i keep pushing. how did you hand—pick the talent we will have in the room? with a lot of stress. we had over 500 submissions today and we could only facilitate 100. we have spent a long time going through the submissions and we were listening to demos until 6am today. we hope we can get more funding and put on more events like this and get more girls heard. thank you very much. the event carries on for the rest of the day and in a couple of years, we could see one of these girls writing for the next big band. on the face of it, saturday has not been a bad day with head —— high

pressure in charge and a lot of dry weather. not sunny for everyone. in central areas, it has been disappointingly cool with drizzle. and sometimes flirting with this vast south—west, cornwall, south devon and the channel islands. that would clear away this evening and tonight. large amounts of cloud floating around to north—eastern scotla nd floating around to north—eastern scotland and north england, murky endlessly. clear spells the northwest, with a touch of frost in places. another quiet day tomorrow with the northerly winds driving cloud and eastern areas with a spot of drizzle, and it feels cool. temperatures 9—iod along the coast. further west, more sunshine and a better day towards the south—west with temperatures in the high season places. the start of the week remains pleasant, the best of the sunshine in the west.

hello, this is bbc news bbc news with richard lister. the headlines at 15:30: theresa may has been campaigning in key general election battle grounds in the midlands and has sought to play down talk of a landslide victory. jeremy corbyn is in leicestershire and has spoken of creating a society in which people are no longer held back by a system that is rigged for the rich. the ukip leader, paul nuttall, has urged his supporters to "stay on the pitch", despite a drubbing in local elections. he insists the party has a bright future and voters will return in their "droves" if theresa may fails to deliver on brexit. french presidential candidate emmanuel macron says he's the target of a huge hacking attack, the day before the people of france go to the polls. now on bbc news, click. this week: the coolest history lesson in history. the smallest car race in the world.

and we are with the doctor, as something goes bang in the night. school, it's changed a lot since i went through the education mangle all those many years ago. many years ago. the school buildings may look the same, but technology has been infusing education for quite a while now. we have smart whiteboards, we have increasing use of tablets and laptops. we have e—textbooks instead of textbooks, but there are some systems which mean the way in which kids learn and are taught is changing completely.

it seems many tech giants want to become part of education. after all, an early introduction to their brands may one day add up to a greater number of users. microsoft this week launched its education offering, which includes a new version of windows called windows s, a budget surface pro in various colours and some tweaks to its office applications. apple's teaching tool, classroom, had a face—lift last month and now offers more tools for teachers. but before both of these came google classroom. and today, i'm finding more about it from mr lickfold, director of learning at tring secondary school. they have been using this online system for the past 18 months to teach and monitor the students' progress. today, i'm learning about the galapagos islands and, i have to say, the lesson that

chris has constructed certainly looks more engaging than my old textbooks. but tech can do a lot more than just provide media rich lesson plans. we are able to personalise what we do far more than we have ever done before and take them to different resources that are available in the system. every student's learning journey will be different. taking teaching online also means teachers have a lot more access to children's individual learning data and even their thought processes. for example, this browser extension lets the teacher watch how an essay was written and refined. if i've got a student who, in preparation for their exams, is not constructing their paragraphs correctly, i can say, "ok, let's look at how you constructed your particular paragraph. what did you do? where did you develop it? what can you do differently?" if it's maybe two or three paragraphs and they spent so long on the first one, then i can also just say, "look, this is how long you spent on this first document, it's like half an hour.

you only spent five minutes on the second and third one." the kids also seem to like the learning experience. lots of time, there will be teachers at home and we can still do work at home and the teachers can still be there and they can see actually how much we have done. if your teacher doesn't believe that you have spent the amount of time required on the homework, then you can say, "actually, i did, because look at the edit history." it's so much quicker than handing in work waiting until another lesson to get it back, whereas now you can just hand it in and in 20 minutes you can have it back. using online tools and data is one way to enhance learning in schools, but lara lewington has been looking at other tech that promises to change how children learn completely. vr, robots, holograms — it wasn't like this in my day. i am robot. at the bet education show earlier this year, we saw some of the most cutting—edge ideas heading to the classroom soon. over the past few months, i have seen quite a few devices that bring

together the idea of kids coding and toys aiming to make the activity more fun. but good old lego here have gone a step further. they are trying to recreate real—life situations where robots would be used, so that children can find problems and then find the solution. and the mission we have here is for a space robot which needs to move around the space base collecting these theses base collecting these pieces all together and taking them back to one place. but obviously, the coding should do that bit. using the drag and drop blocks to create sequences that carry out actions is just part of the learning process, as science is being taught at the same time. but brickso‘s vision of what could be learned through these small plastic blocks was quite different. look at this! this is a way to bring your existing lego set to life. it has got a couple of led lights, a sensor, and these blocks actually conduct electricity.

from there, you can create whateverspinning, moving, lighting functions take your fancy. but this use of technology isn't just about teaching ict. this adaptive learning is also about employing new methods of teaching traditional classes. the teacher guides the experience but, as a student, you can really roam about. this is google expedition. now, jen here is going to play the part of a teacher. she will be talking through what we are all looking at through the goggles at the same time. that actually represents all of you... the pictures are amazing. looking at the difference between the healthy lungs and the smoker‘s lungs, i definitely think we'll stick with the kit. the idea of an image in your mind is certainly something that could be easier to maintain than someone just talking. but my issue is actually with the idea of wearing the goggles. they are fine for a couple of minutes, but then i do feel the urge to take them off, so i can't imagine actually wearing them for a full half—hour lesson or beyond.

many of these ideas will be picked up by individual schools, but although the ideas and devices are out there, the challenge comes in making them available to the masses. and that is something which one not for profit in finland, a country considered to have one of the world's best education systems, is trying to overcome. i would say that education is one of the few big industries that is still waiting to be disrupted. one of the biggest challenges in our education system is that it is based on the ideals of the industrial world, so it is kind of like teaching everyone to be the same. and in tomorrow's world, it is crucial to be individual. one idea turns things on its head though, focusing not simply on new ways of teaching, but firstly analysing how we learn. well, i'm on my way to maths class, which should cause me a bit of concern because i'm not sure i remember that much from school, but with this class, everybody is having their own private lesson. the teacher doesn't stand up and project their voice to start the session.

the kids take their places at computers, where century ai will take them through the lesson. this artificial intelligence system aims to teach each pupil at their own pace and in a way that suits them best, constantly getting to know them better and tracking their progress. the whole purpose of this machine is to learn how your brain learns and then utilise that data. and it constantly adapts, to provide them with a top—tier education at any single moment, and then takes that data and offers it to the teacher in real—time. and here, the students generate the data. it's provided in real—time to teachers and they can intervene when necessary and they can spend more time on the human interactions with the student, the pastoral care that they need to provide to that individual. teachers can share their content around the world with other

people using century, so any given subject could have numerous options the machine could select from, based on a student's focus and learning levels. and if they choose to manually switch, then it tracks and considers their preferences as well. what do you feel are the challenges? sometimes, like, if you are not too sure on a question and you've watched videos and stuff, it's easy to like have a human explain it to you, but the computer does make it as easy as possible. whilst, of course, i can see the benefits of personalised education, there is one thing playing on my mind. that's the amount of screen time. we have had plenty of teachers, notjust parents, saying — do you really want them staring at a screen or an ipad? and it's not the answer and it's not binary, and i think that's really important. we don't think teachers should be replaced, we think we need more teachers, we just think teachers should be spending their time teaching, inspiring and passing on knowledge of a subject that they really understand.

there is no shortage of ideas, yet naturally putting them to the test requires people willing to take a chance on them. but clearly, the idea of technology giving an overhaul to how we educate our kids doesn't seem far away. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that tesla boss elon musk talked about tunnels again. he has proposed an underground network where your car gets shuttled from a to b on an electric skate that could go up to 130 mph. the name of his new venture? the boring company. it was also the week that users of messaging app whatsapp were left asking, what's ‘appening? after the service mysteriously went down for several hours around the world. and the bank accounts of 02 customers in germany were drained after the ss7 mobile telecommunications system was hacked. we covered the ss7 vulnerability on the show last year. over in sweden, the world's fastest camera has been developed. lund university's camera can capture

5 trillion images per second, whilst other conventional high—speed cameras typically capture 100,000. instead of capturing images one by one, this captures several coded images at once and pieces them together into a video afterwards. it will be used to film things like brain activity and chemical reactions. and finally, in an effort to help robots run this ostrich—like bot can spread up to 10 mph and has been cleverly designed to self—balance without the need for sensors or computer processing. a single motor drives the bot‘s legs forward in an elliptical motion, injecting more power when it feels resistance. look at it, it's got a mind of its own! right, everyone down to the pub for a swift half, a game of bar billiards and a battle with some giant bugs. sounds like the perfect evening for mark chislak. there are a couple of things that you always find in a british pub.

number one is pints of beer. in some drinking shops, there are distractions like darts. and, of course, virtual—reality headsets. vr in pubs? how ever will you find your pint? the big problem for most people with virtual reality is space. you just don't have the space in a normal—sized living room to play vr games properly. the headsets have got cables attached to them which you can easily trip over, and then you've got furniture and walls that you can bang into. that is where pubs come in. pubs are generally bigger than the house that you live in, so there's no problems with space, and they afford you the opportunity of a truly social virtual reality experience because people can see what you're doing.

so, the walls in here are green, and that means the spectators that are watching me can see the environment that i am and also, if i back myself up to them, i feel that they are soft, they are padded, so players can't injure themselves if they get a little bit too energetic and throw themselves around in space. it's like a soft play area for adults. the combination of public houses and virtual reality is the brainchild of these guys. they have used their background in satellite technology, it and engineering to create this setup. so what made you guys think that vr and pubs went together like a pie and a pint? we wanted to do a vr arcade, but arcades have a staid and outdated image, and so we were looking for a good venue to do virtual reality in public. when you are involved with alcohol, there is always a degree of risk to the gear and the equipment overall, so we have had to rig up

harnesses so that if people fall over, they don't damage themselves. the harnesses also protect the headsets, so they don't fall on the ground. enough talk, it's time to try out the specially designed vr rig. we've got it plugged into the seat belt arrester system, which will catch you when you fall. in order to make players safe, it is crucial that the cables for the headsets are kept out of the way. i have a harness that i have to put on. it goes on there. and then you clip this in at the back here. and now no matter how much you turn around, this cable is not going to get caught in your head or on your back. an ingenious solution to the cable problem that everybody finds with vr headsets. ok, now, i have played tonnes of games in vr

before and, as always, i'm immediately transported from the space that i was in, this pub, into this sewer, and zombies are coming from pretty much every direction. reload, reload. 0h! you don't really notice the cable that you're wearing and the harness. i thought you would, but i don't notice it's there at all. what have you discovered about the type of games that are best to play in this environment? our rule of thumb is basically any more than one button is too complicated. most of the people who are playing have never played virtual reality before. it's enough of a surprise for them to find themselves in a computer game. you don't want them to then have to remember six or seven button combinations as well. double your gun, double your fun. this is where nice, simple games can easily be demonstrated. it's a wave shooter, so i've got waves and waves of bad guys trying to attack me. the aim is simple — fight them off. but how do people fare when they have been

in the vr when they have had a couple of drinks? it's a bit like playing pool — you get progressively better and then you get a lot worse towards the end. it's really, really frantic. i don't think i can stand more than five minutes in here. simply because i'm getting really hot! 0h! and i'm done. well, it's somebody else‘s turn, and it's my turn to order at the bar. 0h. now, does this look like a race track to you? does this look like a car? well, last weekend, six teams took to the track in toulouse, in france, for the world's first nano car race. the nano cars are specially designed molecules which are invisible to the human eye. nano things are very, very small. one nanometre is 30,000 times thinner than a human hair. in ideal cases, we try to build

molecules which have the shape of a car, with some kind of a chassis and four wheels and ideally a motor. but in some cases, it turns out to be much simpler molecule work as well. six teams competed — representing france, switzerland, japan, germany, the usa and a joint us and austrian team. the tiny racetrack for most teams was made of gold. this is because gold is so soft, its surface can be made extremely flat, as in there's not even an atom out of place. that does take some time to prepare. since we bring different types of molecules to the surface or the sensorface, first, you have to clean the surface to make sure you have a good track. that there is a good organisation

of the atom, and to free the track from the molecules that you don't want. and this will take one or two days. once the nano cars were in position on the track, the teams used the tip of a scanning, tunnelling microscope to propel the vehicles with tiny electric charges. they had 30 hours to race 100 nanometres and back. six teams started, with no guarantee that they would all finish, but there is historical precedent here. in 1894, there was the first ever car race in the world. of course, microscopic cars, big cars, we had 100 or so cars registered at that time and only 21 succeeded to start and only 17 arrived at the end. so we are in the same situation but, of course, we have less starting cars. in the end, it took one team only 19 minutes to finish the race but they did use a different track.

if we had used the gold, it was going to be uncontrollably fast, so we used a silver surface, which is actually a slower surface. so we slowed it down, so we could control it better. we never revealed the structure of our car until race day, there was no requirement to reveal the structure of the car. because we worked so hard to come up with these design features, we didn't feel that we wanted to reveal that to the world until race day. and looking at their cars, we knew that they were going to be a little bit slower because, number one, they were very big. the higher the molecular weight, the harder it is to move it. number two, they had automatic wheels and we knew that that was going to slow them down. even though it was originally deemed as a 36—hour race, then 30 hours, we knew we were going to be able to finish much faster than that. the second team to finish was on the standard gold surface and took over seven hours.

the organisers decided to declare both the swiss team and the us—austrian team joint winners, as they had raced in different circumstances. the tech used in the race will help improve the imaging capabilities of the world's most powerful microscopes, and the car design process has pharmaceutical applications for making designer molecules. as it was in the world's first ever nano race, every team will have plenty of thinking to take back to their tiny drawing boards. now, you may remember last year, we tickled your earbuds with something called binaural sound. now, this is a way of recording audio so when you listen back through headphones, the sounds actually sound like they are coming from the right place in 3—d space. well, it turns out someone was listening. notjust someone, but the doctor. and he invited kate russell to hear all about it. go and have a look.

why me? you're physically bigger... maybe it'sjust the central heating. oh, sorry, didn't mean to scare you, unlike a new episode of doctor who that uses binaural sound to really get inside your head. i've come to south wales, where the episode knock knock was filmed. in this spooky—looking house, the doctor investigates some strange noises. what's going on? using binaural sound, the show‘s producers are able to ramp up the fright factor, by placing sound effects all around the listener so they feel like they are actually inside the room with the actors. if you see a normal, digital audio workstation, everything is layered up in tracks, but actually,

we can see those tracks on the computer as little objects. like you are looking down on top of a room, so you can see these dots with a cross showing where the left and right is and the up and down axis. when the sounds are then put through into the bbc renderer, which is a piece of software that the r&d team have made, then you can see where those sounds are hanging in 3—d space. to experience the binaural effect, you must be using stereo headphones. even a top—of—the—range 5.1 surround sound speaker system will not deliver the results, as the microscopic time and sounds arriving in your ears are vital to creating the 360—degrees immersive effect. that was super, super scary and spooky and atmospheric. very subtle. if you're expecting a kind of like sideshow act ofjumping around sound that really wows you, this is not what this is about. this is about a subtle experience of placing you in a three—dimensional sound space.

the reason why this episode lent itself so brilliantly to the binaural mix is because of it being a kind of horror genre. and a lot of what makes things scary is what you don't see, and building up the atmosphere to that moment of scare is really what the audience are looking for. we were told 3—d tv was going to be the next big thing. well, that didn't happen, so why should this be any different? the reason why binaural is really taking off now is because we're in the age of the smartphone and the tablet and people are consuming their media with headphones. the headphones are hugely popular. even in my family, my kids will sit down watching their own content that they're interested in with a pair of headphones, so as not to disturb each other. i think what will happen when people experience binaural audio with tv content, radio content, and then they go back to stereo, they will feel a little bit claustrophobic. it's quite a claustrophobic feeling, and you think — i want that

other sound, please. what was that? it was binaural, let me have some more of that, please. i think that is where we will start to see binaural really take off. this spooky episode will be broadcast with regular sound on uk tvs this weekend. i'm afraid viewers from the rest of the world will have to wait. for the binaural experience, watch it on iplayer. i recommend a darkened room, some decent stereo headphones and a steely nerve. and remember, if you do hear knocking sounds in the night, it's probablyjust your pipes. probably. wow, can't wait to see and, more importantly, hear that episode. but then, i love doctor who, can't wait to see every episode. that's it for this week. follow us on twitter throughout the week. thanks for watching, we will see you soon.

below. broadly speaking, the weekend has got off to a quiet start. a lot of dry weather with variations from place to place will stop some have seen sunshine and others have been stuck under cloud, that was telford instructs year earlier today. cloud across central areas with outbreaks of patchy rain towards the south—west, baking soda and devon, cornwall and the channel islands. elsewhere, it has been largely dry with sunshine. this evening and tonight, we will lose the rain from the far south. most areas turned right with clear spells and large areas of cloud floating around

across north—eastern scotland and north—eastern england, where it turns misty and murky and drizzly. most turns misty and murky and drizzly. m ost pla ces turns misty and murky and drizzly. most places avoiding a frost, but across the northwest, if chilly sta rts across the northwest, if chilly starts to sunday. bright, western scotla nd starts to sunday. bright, western scotland starting fairly bright. the north and east, we will see more cloud and drizzle, murky conditions, extended across north east england. northwest england seeing sunshine. in the midlands and east anglia and the south east, and lots of cloud with drizzle, miles, 11 degrees for london and southampton. in the south—west, today has brought rain and tomorrow should get off to a fine start with sunshine. 12 degrees in plymouth at nine o'clock. wales seeing some sunshine, especially coastal areas. a sparkling start in northern ireland with plenty of sunshine, 11 degrees belfast. western areas see the best sunshine, a sunny day across the far

south—west. cloudierfor north scotla nd south—west. cloudierfor north scotland and across this northern half is uttered, we will see areas of cloud. and down the east coast of england, it will feel cool. further west with sunshine, 18—19d. fairly bright for the liverpool match in the premier league tomorrow afternoon. for arsenal versus manchester united, more cloud into the mix. eastern areas keep cloud into the start of the week. fairly cool weather. further west, a better chance of sunshine. where you do get sunnier skies, it will feel good. that is all this is bbc news. the headlines at four.

theresa may has been campaigning in key general election battle grounds in the midlands and has sought to play down talk of a landslide victory. jeremy corbyn has spoken of creating a society in which people are no longer held back by a system that is rigged for the rich. a penny in the pound on income tax to generate billions more for the nhs and social care — a pledge from the liberal democrats. paul nuttall says ukip has a bright future and voters will return in their "droves" if theresa may fails to deliver on brexit. french presidential candidate, emmanuel macron, says he's been the target of a massive hacking attack, the day before france goes to the polls.