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h “a f: thinks he il‘u wits an t “ht il‘u wits an t “it this book. he thinks he created this president and is very angry. i think that as long as we are talking about him, donald does not mind. and when we have brexit coming up, this is the front page, the president of the united states saying, i am very stable. i said united states saying, i am very stable. isaid he united states saying, i am very stable. i said he is a blip. united states saying, i am very stable. isaid he is a blip. brexit is for ever. we can never get away from trump or brexit! we have proved that again tonight. back again at 11:30pm. coming up next is click. welcome... welcome, how are you? hello... 7 welcome, welcome...
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second script — "how are you? how are you...?" hello, everybody! i am literally being built from the skin out, currently, by these two lovely ladies who are going to try to make me look different... like my publicity photograph. all right, then... everybody happy? so what we're going to do is go to silence, please, and go to black... lose the house lights... vt10 next... announcer: this is bbc click live. please welcome your host, spencer kelly! cheering and applause erm, right!
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there. hello! welcome... my own floor! welcome to click live! and have we got a show for you...! have we got a show for them? we have. we're ready to go. we have some really amazing things for you tonight. we've got some things that noise, we've got some things that fly, some things for you to taste. some of it won't work, 0k? laughter bear with us, because hopefully the stuff that does work — fingers crossed, a lot of it has in rehearsals — it is a world—first, and you won't see this anywhere else, and no—one has seen this before you. before any of that, i have to introduce you to the other half of the show. please welcome to the stage kate russell. applause brilliant, isn't it? when they said i'd have my name in lights,
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i was expecting more broadway than boardwalk — but it's a start! it's going to be a really, really crammed show. i don't want you getting too comfortable, because there's a lot of audience participation. so i hope you're ready to take part. do you want to see some tech? crowd: yes! i don't believe you. do you want to see some tech? crowd: yes! i think so. all right. first of all, we need you to settle down, because our first guest tonight is very mysterious. his name is psychicjoe, and i'm told things are about to get very strange... eerie music playing hello. computers are a wonderful thing, but we're going to put them to one side just for the moment. i'd like to introduce you to the power of your own mind. breathe slowly and gently, and i'll discover more about you with just a candle.
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now, i sometimes get some powers and signals through, and sometimes i get things wrong. but most of the time, it's right. so stay with me. i mightjust get pieces of information that come... i'm starting with a "".g let me just put this down for a moment. there's a "g" — i'm going to start to pull something out of the audience. hopefully it's one of you. i'm getting a "".g let's start with "g" — gareth? i think this is him. cos those are two different sites. hello, gareth. how are you? we have joe, and he's going to identify some people in the audience, and he's going to pretend to read their mind by telling them things about them, by reading information from them. it's actually us researching these people online and feeding that to him through a hidden earpiece. les? les...? it could have been a man, but i won't make wild assertions. is there a les?
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leslie? welcome to the show. glad you've got a microphone with you now. so we're researching some of the people in the audience right now. the gentleman who's just sat down in front of us — i've just found the address details of somebody who sat down at the front with her partner as well. so we're searching as much as we can about the people that are in front of us. do you have children called jack and sasha? um, we have cats called jack and sasha. it's close! it's close. i've set up a free wi—fi network. most people quite happily click "free wi—fi". people type in their name, click "connect", and that is how we start. we then have their name. it's the first thing to work from. fortu nately, because it's quite a big event, people have a facebook page. people will say, "i'm at bbc click." we can see that publicly and openly. this is legal. completely legal, yes. that's a question we get asked a lot. we're just looking at information people have made available themselves.
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congratulations on your 4—year anniversary. applause there's two main lessons — be careful what you're signing up for. what's helping us the most right now — people's social media profiles are open and public. we're not saying not to use it, but check that your profile is private. i'm a complete stranger to everybody in this audience, but so far i've been able to go onto all of their profiles and see their pictures, their statuses. as a total stranger, you probably don't want me reading that information. so just — we're not saying don't use it — just make it private so only your friends can see. that would protect you from all of the things we've found out so far, actually. we listen to radio, to tv, to music, to podcasts, using speakers. big speakers in your house and small speakers that you wear in your ears or that are built into your smartphones. i'm using the perfect bit of coffee for the levitation. it has to be both kind of small, but also regular,
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and i don't think they normally make coffee beans with levitation in mind. one of the things that steve has been working on is ultrasounds, ok? we've got a few ultrasound demos here. so i'll tell you what — rather than explain more about it, shall we, ah, just give it a whirl? i'll tell you what — who's getting something there? raise your hand if you can hear this, then drop your hand as soon as you can't hear it again. so this is unusual for a speaker, cos usually when you switch a speaker on, everyone can hear it. right now, we're getting a really narrow beam. really focused beam of sound. imagine this is a lot like a flashlight. imagine i'm pointing a torch around the room. you'd only see certain parts of it. this is the same idea, except with sound. so we're focusing the sound and we can focus all that energy, all that sound energy, in a specific place. wow! this is the weirdest and slowest and most continuous mexican wave i've ever seen...
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i have no idea what you're hearing, cos he's never pointed it in my direction. beeping whoa! seriously? sorry, it's quite unpleasant, isn't it? it can make normal sounds as well. ultrasound is really high—frequency sound, then you're tying other stuff into that, and sending it around the room? ultrasound is out of the range of human hearing, is pretty much the definition. we can hear up to 20,000 hertz. anything above that is ultrasound. we can't hear ultrasound, but this is an ultrasound wave that's been combined or modulated with a signal. this is notjust the only ultrasound weirdness we've got — it gets even weirder. pop that down, for goodness sake. this looks like it's landed from another planet. this is incredible. for the second time tonight, what on earth is going on? if we can in here, you can see there's quite a regular pattern on some of these. i can't get too close because it disrupts the sound field.
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maybe you can see there's a few balls — a bit of a gap. how are you using ultrasound to make stuff levitate? these speakers are producing a big ultrasound signal — that's making a standing wave. in between the gaps of the standing wave, the balls can get trapped and they get kept in the same place. wow! that's fantastic. in fact, that's so amazing, steve, i think we deserve a drink. would you mix us one? yes, of course, spencer. fantastic. right. this is the weirdest drink... we rehearsed that. could you tell? what is this, steve? we've got a lovely, lovely delight for you today. it's a single grain of coffee with a, ah, drop of milk, all levitating in the middle of the air. it's a latte. laughter you have to have it in, though — you can't have it to go, u nfortu nately. i'm going to try this. my tongue‘s not long enough... really slowly... laughter 0h! you got it!
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applause that's really... ..coffee—ee. that's like really, really strong. is that supposed to be that strong? yes. yeah. that's what we've found. sugar tastes sweeter, and coffee‘s bitter. fantastic. sri, steve, thank you very much. a round of applause for sri, steve and the ultrasound latte! applause there were so many amazing demos and displays in the show that we just can't fit it into this program. here's a look at some of the other highlights from our evening of delight. we transformed our tech—loving audience into musicians, as kate and i conducted the biggest ever microzbit processor orchestra... let's have some more microzbits over here in the air. let's have a few at the back... i can see them all in the sky... we are still waiting on the guinness book of records
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to get back to us, though. we explored the potential of ar with our lucky audience members left cowering as a full—scale aircraft suddenly appeared over their heads... hello, world! 300,000 peoplejoined us on facebook live during the evening as we asked them whether robots should feel pain. edward nemil, thank you for this question on facebook: "sacrificing a robot for the greater good might be necessary. why would you want it to feel pain?" if we're going to keep having a servant class of robots, then we shouldn't go down that route. but the aims of increasing intelligence may make that possible. —— may make that impossible. we watched drones that study the landscape and drones that dive, as we looked at how they could help in the future. hello, everybody.
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i'm an environmental scientist. i'm interested in how landscapes, in particularly plants, function. my name's tom london. i'm a magician, hacker and programmer. with technology, machines can think a thousand times faster than we can, and because of this, i've worked out a way how to accomplish a thing it's been absolutely amazing. have you had a good time? crowd: yes! temperatures have been falling and tonight they are dropping like a stone. this is how we end the night. clear skies overnight, we don't have the blanket of clouds to keep temperatures up so sunday starts very cold. there will be fast and
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icy stretches but lots of sunshine to compensate. through the rest of the night, clouds clearing away. widget showers across easterling and clearing away but icy stretches and temperatures in the countryside as low as 10 degrees. we could c— 15 celsius in the shelter blends of scotland. bitterly cold especially across the northern part of the country. lots of sunshine with large winds. the cold theme continues into the new working week but then things turn milderfor tuesday the new working week but then things turn milder for tuesday and the new working week but then things turn milderfor tuesday and cloud increases from the west. goodbye for now. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: the bbc understands theresa may will reshuffle her cabinet at the beginning of next week. a downing street source dismisses newspaper reports concerning the fate of certain ministers as pure speculation. donald trump dismisses doubts over his mental stability, and describes the author of a new book about his presidency as a fraud.
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i consider it a work of fiction, and i think it's a disgrace that somebody‘s able to have something — do something like that. the libel laws are very weak in this country. if they were strong, it would be very helpful. you wouldn't have things like that happen, where you can say whatever comes to your head. an ambulance service apologises after an 81—year—old woman died while waiting nearly four hours for paramedics to arrive. airstrikes on a rebel—held area of syria are thought to have killed
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