m $fo “nit upfront to m, nh all lliflt “ly upfront to play your meet the full, upfront to play your pa rt meet the full, upfront to play your part in emissions reductions, you are being held back. all that calls for a serious response from a serious government. it cools —— it calls on the government to understand education, childcare, infrastructure and industrial strategy are the essential pillars of the big deal to upgrade the economy. what's the point of upgrading the roads, railways and communications if businesses, large and small, continue to be denied credit reinvestment? what is the point of upgrading education, skills and learning, if the cost of childcare means many wearing continue to be held back in their career. in the coming days, labour will make major announcements in all of these areas. why? labour understands our economy shapes our lives. the conservatives will only

offer fine words. when the conservatives say they would create a northern powerhouse, or the midlands engine, why is the transport investment in london over £1900 per person, just £220 per head in the north—east? labour will commit to investing 250 billion across the whole country. when it comes to industrial strategy, the conservatives said a woman but british manufacturing today is smaller than it was a decade ago. on industrial strategy to deliver real industrial support to businesses large and small. and when it comes to pay, conservatives introduced a living wage too low for people to live on. an average pay is still less than a decade ago. labour

will introduce a £10 an hour living wage so that work will always pay under labour. ok, so far, so good. i know what the question is next. i know, it is how is labour going to pay for this. yes, a big deal to upgrade the economy will cost billions. myjob will be to find those billions. and in the next two weeks i will be spelling out to the british public where those billions will come from. there we have the shadow chancellor promising detail on what labour would do for its plans if it was to be the next government. we have been hearing this morning that they have promised no tax rises for those earning £80,000 a year or more, but those above that figure would have to pay

more. now on bbc news, click — a guide to all the latest gadgets, games, websites and computer industry news. this week, the coolest history lesson in history. the smallest car race in the world. and we are with the doctor as something goes bump in the doctor as something goes bump in the night. school, it has changed a lot since i went through the mangle all those yea rs went through the mangle all those years ago. many. years ago. school

buildings may look the same but technology has been infusing education for some time. we have smart whiteboards, increasing use of ta blets smart whiteboards, increasing use of tablets and laptops, e textbooks instead of textbooks, but also there are some systems which mean the way 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 at 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 surplus pro in various colours and some treats to its office applications. apple's teaching tool classroom had a face—lift last month and now offers mortals the teachers, but before both of these came google classroom. today i am finding out more about it from the director of

learning at training secondary school. they have been using this online system the past 18 months to teach and monitor the student‘ progress. today i am learning about the galapagos islands and the lesson chris has constructed certainly looks more engaging than my old textbooks. but tech can do a lot more than provide media rich lesson plans. we are able to personalise what we do more than before. we can ta ke what we do more than before. we can take them to different resources available on the system. every student‘s learning journey will be different. taking teaching online means teachers have more access to children‘s individual learning data and even their thought processes. this browser extension lets the teacher watch how an essay was written and refined. ifi have teacher watch how an essay was written and refined. if i have a student who in preparation for exams is not constructing paragraphs correctly i can say let‘s look at how you constructed your particular paragraph. what did you do? where

did you develop it? what can we do differently? if it is maybe two or three paragraphs and they spend so long on the first one, i can also say this is how long you spend on the first one, half an hour, yuri spent part five minutes on the second and third. the kids also seem to like it. lots of time we can still work at home and teachers can still work at home and teachers can still be there on our thing and see how much we have done. if the teacher doesn't believe you have spent the required amount of time on the home work, you can say i did, look at the edit history. it is so much quicker, handing in work, you can hand it in and within 20 minutes haveit can hand it in and within 20 minutes 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 which promises to change how children learn completely. vr, robots, holograms, it was not

like this in my day! at the best can extrication show, we saw some of the most cutting edge ideas heading to the classroom soon. over the last few months i have seen quite a few devices that bring together the idea of kids coding and toys, aiming to make it more fun, but good old lego 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 a solution. the mission we have here is for a space robot which needs to move around the space base, collecting these pieces together and taking them back to one place. obviously, them back to one place. obviously, the coding should do that bit. using the coding should do that bit. using the dragon drop box to create sequences that carry out actions as pa rt sequences that carry out actions as part of the learning process, as science is being taught at the same time. but brick so‘s vision of what

can be learned is quite different. this is a way to bring your existing lego set to life. it has some led lights, a sense that, and these locks conduct electricity! from there you can create what ever spreading, moving, lighting functions create your fancy. but this use of technology is notjust about teaching ict, this adaptive learning is about employing new methods of teaching traditional classes. the teacher guides the experience but the student... this is google expedition. jenny is going to play the part of a teacher, she will talk through what we are looking at in the goggles. it represents all of you... the pictures are amazing. looking at the difference between the healthy and smoker‘s lungs i think we‘ll stick with them. the idea of an image in your mind is easier to maintain than

someone talking. my issue is actually with the idea of the goggles. they are fine for a couple of minutes but then i feel the urge to ta ke of minutes but then i feel the urge to take them off, i can‘t imagine wearing them for a full lesson. 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. that is something that one not—for—profit in finland, a country considered to have one of the worlds best education systems, is to overcome. have one of the worlds best education systems, is to overcomelj would say education is when of the few big industries that is still waiting to be disrupted. one of the biggest challenges in the system is that it biggest challenges in the system is thatitis biggest challenges in the system is that it is based on the ideas of the industrial world. it is teaching eve ryo ne industrial world. it is teaching everyone to be the same. in tomorrow‘s world it is crucial to be individual. one idea turns things on its head. focusing not simply on new ways of teaching but firstly analysing how we learn. i am on my

way to maths class which should cause me some 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 does not stand up and project their voice to start the session, the kids take their places at computers where a! will take them through the lesson. this artificial intelligence system aims to teach each pupil at their own pace and in the way that suits them best. constantly gets to know them best. constantly gets to know them better and track in their process. the purpose of this machine is to learn how your brain learns and then utilise that data, is co nsta ntly ada pts to and then utilise that data, is constantly adapts to provide them with a top tier education at every moment. and then take that data and offer it to the teacher in reason real—time. here the student generates the data. it is provided in real—time to teachers, they can

intervene when necessary and they can spend more time on human interaction with the student, the pastoral care they need to provide. teachers can share their content around the world with other people using the system. any given subject could have numerous options machine can select from based on the student‘s focus and learning levels. and if they choose to manually switch it tracks and considers their preferences to. what you feel are the chances? if you're not to share on question, it is easier to have a human explain it to you. but the commute pewter makes it as easy as possible. while i can see the benefits, there is one thing playing on my mind. that is the amount of screen time. we have had plenty of teachers not just parents, screen time. we have had plenty of teachers notjust parents, saying do we want them staring at the screen? the answer is not binary. that is

important. we don't think teachers should be replaced, we need more teachers, but we think they should spend their time teaching inspiring, imparting knowledge of a stubbed it they really understand. there is no shortage of ideas yet naturally putting them to the test requires people willing to take the chance on them. clearly the idea of technology giving an overhaul to how we educate our kids does not seem far away. welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that elon musk talked about tunnels again. he has proposed underground network where your car is shuttled from a to b on an electric skate that could go up to 130 mph. the name of it, the boring company. it was also the users of what set were asked what is happening after the service went down for several hours around the world. the bank accounts of o2

customers in germany were drained after the s s seven mobile telecoms system was hacked. we covered their vulnerability last year. in sweden and the world‘s fastest camera has been developed. it can capture 5 trillion images per second. others, typically get 100,000. instead of ca ptu red typically get 100,000. instead of captured an image is one it captures several at once and pieces them together into video. it can be used together into video. it can be used to video things like brain activity and chemical reactions. finally, innovative help robots run better, this ostrich like bot can sprint up to ten mph and can self balance without the need for sensors or computer processing. a single motor drives its legs forwards in an elliptical motion injet and more power when it feels resistance. it has a power when it feels resistance. it hasa mind power when it feels resistance. it has a mind of its own! everyone down

to the pub for a swift half, a game of bar billiards and a battle with giant bugs. the perfect evening. there are a couple of things you a lwa ys there are a couple of things you always find in a british pub. number one, pints of beer. in some drinking shops there are distractions like darts. and of course virtual reality headsets. the in pubs? how will you find your pint? the big problem for most people with virtual reality is space. you don‘t have the space in a normal sized living room to play the er games properly. the headsets have ca bles er games properly. the headsets have cables attached which you can trip over and then you have furniture and walls to bang into. that is where pubs come in. pubs are generally bigger than the house you live in so

there is no problem with space. and they afford you the opportunity for truly social virtual reality experience is because people can see what you are doing. so the wars in here are green. that means the spectators watching me play can see the environment i am in and if i back myself up to them i feel they are soft. they are padded, so payers cannot injure themselves if they get too energetic and throw themselves around. it is like a soft play area for adults. the combination of public house and virtual reality is the brainchild of these guys, they have used their backgrounds in satellite technology, it and engineering to create this setup. what made you think that vr and pubs when together? we wanted to do a vr arcade, but finding arcades have a

stale and outdated image. 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. so we have had to rig up our and the equipment. so we have had to rig up our nurses and the equipment. so we have had to rig up our nurses so that if people fall rig up our nurses so that if people fa ll over rig up our nurses so that if people fall over they do not damage themselves, the harness also protect themselves, the harness also protect the headsets so they don't fall on the headsets so they don't fall on the ground. enough talk. time to try out the specially designed vr rake. we have it plugged into this seat belt arrester system. it will catch you if you fall. in order to make it safe, it is crucial that cables are kept out of the way. i have a harness i have to put on. it goes on there. and then we put this in at there. and then we put this in at the back. and now, no matter how much you turn around, the cable will not get caught. an ingenious solution to the cable problem. now

i‘ve played tonnes of games in vr before, and as always i am immediately transported from the space i was in into this sewer. zombies coming from pretty much every direction. gunn shot reload, reload! you don‘t really notice the cable you are wearing out the harness. i thought you would but i don‘t notice it at all. so what have you discovered about the kind of games that are best in this environment? our rule of thumb is any more than one button is to constipated. most of the people playing have never played vr before and it is enough of a surprise for them to find themselves in the game, you don‘t want them to have to remember six or seven button combinations as well. double your gun, double yourfine! combinations as well. double your gun, double your fine! 50 this is

where nice simple games can be demonstrated. wave shooter. waves and waves of bad guys trying to attack me. the aim is simple. fight them off. how do people fare when they have been in vr after a couple of drinks? it's a bit like playing pool of drinks? it's a bit like playing pool. you get progressively better and then lots worse suddenly. it's really frantic. i don‘t think i could stand blogger than five minutes because i am getting really hot! and i‘m dead. well, it is somebody else‘s term and it is my turn to order at the bar. now, does this look like a racetrack to you? does this look like a car? 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 small. one nanometre is 30,000 times thinner than human hair. six teams competed, representing france, switzerland, japan, germany, the usa and there was a joint us and austrian team. the tiny race track for most teams was maimed of gold. this is because it is so soft its service can be made extremely flat, as in not even an atom out of place.

that takes some time to prepare. once the nano cars were in position on the track, the teams used the tip ofa 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 raise 100 nanometres and back. six teams started with no guarantee they would all finish. but there is historical precedent. in the end, it took one team only 90

minutes to finish the race. but they did usea minutes to finish the race. but they did use a different track. minutes to finish the race. but they did use a different trackm minutes to finish the race. but they did use a different track. if we had used the gold it would have been uncontrollably fast so we used a silver service which is actually slower, so we slowed it down, so we could control it better around the pylon. we never revealed the structure of our car until race day. there was no requirement to. we worked so hard to come up with these design features we did not feel we wa nted design features we did not feel we wanted to reveal that to the world until race day. looking at their cars, we knew they were going to be a little bit slower because, number one, they were very big. the higher the molecular weights, the harder to move it. number two, they had aromatic wheels, we knew that would slow them down. even though it was

originally deemed a 36 hour race, then a 30 hour race, we knew we would finish much faster than that. the second team to finish raced on the standard gold course and took over seven hours. the organisers decided to declare both the swiss tea m decided to declare both the swiss team and the us austrian team joint winners as they 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 banner 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. this is a way of recording audio so you listen back through headphones and the sounds sound like they are coming from 3—d space. it turns out someone

was listening. not just from 3—d space. it turns out someone was listening. notjust someone, but the doctor. he invited kate russell to hear all about it. paul, go and have a look. why me? you‘re physically the biggest. maybe as the central heating. oh, sorry. did not mean to scare you. unlike a new episode of doctor who that uses binaural sound to get inside your head. i have come to south wales where the episode not knock was filmed. in this spooky looking house the doctor investigates some strange noises. what is going on? using binaural sound the show‘s produces

can ramp up the fright factor by placing sound effects all around the listener so they feel like they are inside the room with the actors. if you see a normal digital audio work station everything is layering tracks. but we can see those tracks on the computer as objects, like you are looking down on a rome, so you can see these dots with a cross showing where the axis is. when they are put through into the bbc renderer, then you can see where those sounds are hanging in 3—d space. to mix periods the binaural effect you must be using stereo headphones. even a top of the range 5.1 surround sound system won‘t deliver the results because the microscopic time delays are vital to creating the 360 degrees immersive effect. that was super scary and

spooky and atmospheric. very subtle. you are expecting the kind of sideshow act ofjumping around sound that wows you, that is not what this is about. this is a subtle experience of placing you in a three—dimensional soundscape. experience of placing you in a three-dimensional soundscape. the reason why this episode lends itself so brilliantly to the binaural mix is because is it is playing with the horror genre and the tropes of that. a lot of what makes things scary is what you do not see. building up the atmosphere to that moment of scare. that israeli what the audience are looking for. we were told s-d tv would be the next big thing. that did not happen. so why should this be any different? the reason binaural is taking off now is because we are in the age of the smartphone and tablets. people are consuming their media with headphones. the headphones are hugely popular. even in my family, my kids will sit down watching their

own co nte nt my kids will sit down watching their own content 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, then they go back to stereo, they will feel a bit... it is quite claustrophobic and you think i want that others sound, that binaural, let me have more of that. i think thatis let me have more of that. i think that is where we will see it start to ta ke that is where we will see it start to take off. this spooky episode will be broadcast with regular sound in the uk this weekend. views from the rest of the world will have to wait. for the binaural ex—do experience, watch it on i player. i recommend a darkened room, some stereo headphones and binaural sound. and remember if you hear things going bump in the night, it is probably your pipes. probably.

karl wait for that. that is it for this week. follow us on twitter throughout the week. thanks for watching. we will see you soon. maybe a bit of whether cliche but it sums up the situation beautifully. west is best. the best of the sunshine in western areas. still a nuisance wind coming in off the north sea, driving in cloud and preventing temperatures climbing. in sheltered western areas we will see sunshine, the warm further souse, if

we get 21 degrees in northern ireland that will be the warmest day of the year so far. temperatures generally expected to sit in the high teens. clear skies by day will lie temperatures to fall sharply by night. too much cloud to the east but in rural spots we could see light frost first thing anywhere from north wales, north and west, gardeners and growers take note. the drives seem continues for the early half of the week with decent sunny spells and feeling pleasant in the sun. good afternoon. labour is promising not to raise income tax for anyone earning less than £80,000 a year, as part of an election pledge to low and middle earners. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said those earning over that amount would be asked to pay "a bit more" to help pay for public services. the conservatives say they have no plans to raise taxes, but have so far refused to rule it out completely. here‘s our political correspondent ellie price. a policy pledge to capture the

imagination of low and middle—income voters — and the newspaper headlines.