brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination — but a vote of the full senate will be delayed for a week to allow for an fbi investigation. president trump said the senate committee had to do what they thought was right and necessary. facebook is investigating a security issue affecting nearly 50 million accounts. it says hackers exploited a vulnerability in its code that allowed them to take over people's accounts. the company said that because it had onlyjust begun its investigations it did not yet know who was behind the attacks. a tsunami up to three metres high has crashed into the coast on the indonesian island of sulawesi. it followed an earthquake measuring 7.5 that's left at least five people dead. the authorities say they are having difficulty contacting some urban areas closest to the earthquake‘s epicentre. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week... drone delivers

something. the wet is turned on its head. and andy serkis plays a tormented, augmented click. take me home. i can sing, i can dense, just ta ke home. i can sing, i can dense, just take me home. i can do anything. —— ican take me home. i can do anything. —— i can dense. —— dance. knowledge is power. that is what we have been told. whoever holds the information has the control. our darker is valuable. it really is,

you know, as ever and says, the new world. and for years we have been giving it away in exchange for... what? free services. social nervous —— social networks. e—mail. and all the while, big companies have been recording our every move, selling oui’ recording our every move, selling our data on, or using it to target a base our personalities. early this year, the european union brought in the general data protection regulation to protect our privity. but large amounts of our data is still stored and used by tech giants. —— protect our privacy. some argue it should be wholly owned by us. argue it should be wholly owned by us. not least because the underlying infrastructure that allowed the collection of this commodity, the internet and the web, was publicly funded in the first place. the real question is what is the contract that society should be making with

these companies, which are not only collecting citizen's data, but also using tax money to actually find the technology. it really is coming you know, as a bryton sayers, the new oil. you could become criticalfor the ways that citizens access and interact with different types of services. —— as everybody says. basically interact with the welfare state in their country. this professor is an expert in global innovation and growth. she chose to put a value on the other valuable. she is advocating a public body should safeguard our information. you could have a public data bank where the data is actually stored, insta ntly like where the data is actually stored, instantly like a public repository oi’ instantly like a public repository or data bank, which could be run by some sort of external military council. as part of this early-stage

concept, anyone wanting to access data held in regional or national repositories would have two apply for permission, and possibly pay fees. the funds generated by these la bs fees. the funds generated by these labs would be reinvested in areas such as the welfare state. but what about small, nimble start—ups, that are trying to innovate? would maybe crushed under the weight of big public regulators? the fight to regain control of our data is also being taken up by none other than the inventor of the world wide web himself, who is now reassessing some aspects of his invention. we thought all we had to do was to make it free and things would happen and humanity would create good things. now we realise, actually, just making the infrastructure of the web and internet free and open is not enough. his idea is to create an open operating system, called solid,

which sits on top of the world wide web, which users will access through normal web browsers. here, web, which users will access through normalweb browsers. here, every civil piece of our data that is greeted will be stored in our own pods. each pod can connect and share information with other users if we choose, or even with apps and organisations. so instead of big data companies taking your data into their silos, any app sit in on the solid platform would hack to ask your permission to read or write your permission to read or write your data bod. that dress is very powerful because it means that although spaces will protect —— respect you. the value of your data to you is actually greater than the value to another corporation. to them you are a dot in the data field. you are part of a democratic.

but to you, you are you. the project, which it hopes will mushroom into an ecosystem of decentralised data bod is, apps, and companies, it says companies are increasingly frustrated by the centralised web. but tech and is also making moves. known as the data transport project, this new initiative allows interaction missing platforms. the point is to move the data directly from one service provider to the next, but also with technical considerations at play. it is great to see their companies are embracing that vision. it isa companies are embracing that vision. it is a former complete user control. and it mightjust be that these drives are determined to handle and keep our data safely. there are banks and computer

companies which have as much if not more of my personal data, but i trust them less than a country that is tragic figure out an answer questions. sometimes they mess up, but they learn, because the pressure that we put on them. it affects them. so if the tech companies are not as bad as they are often made out to be, should regulators get more creative in managing? this is such a fast moving area that, due to get me to difficult to regulate and keep it contained, anyway? we need to have a certain mindset and value ona to have a certain mindset and value on a national level that we can work on a national level that we can work on from. because if we put limits and borders on privacy, that is going to put a stop on innovation. but if we give them some fundamental and to base our actions on, it is only going to give them a direction

of where to go. so let's go back to the thought that data is the new oil. you could argue that the oil under the ground does belong to us all. but it is the extraction and what you do next that is the real ha rd what you do next that is the real hard work. the resources and the immigration, that is what is important. -- innovation. ifi have a budget ingredients but can't do anything about it, i would make a great recipe or sell anything. it is the same data. but the father of the world wide web is hopeful that he can still realise that democratic vision of the web that he originally worked towards. agency across the spectrum. complete control over your privacy and data, that is exciting. i think those people who get an inkling of what it will be like. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a

ao—year—old apple one computer that hundreds of the $5,000 at auction. and shazam was bought for $400 million. —— shazaam. and swiss fans tossed tennis balls onto a pitch after playstation public investment in the sports. and it is also the week where playstation announced that it would allow fortnite players to play players and other devices. previously they had blocked cross play, despite other platform supporting the interaction. and this tiny caterpillar pot from the city university london long is capable of carrying heavy loads up to 100 times heavier than itself directly to an area inside the body requiring treatment. the robot can move

efficiently inside surfaces and immersed in bodily fluids. and for an more digestible and dread news, research is at the university of cambridge have developed a leftish peeling robot. using image recognition to detect the letters, such an case of the leaf without damaging the rest of the vegetable. the entire process takes a savoury 27 seconds. if you believe the hype every year for the last two years was the year of virtual reality. but despite that, somehow virtual reality has still not gone mainstream. so last year we talked about how our long—term goal was to help get a billion people into virtual reality. let's start off with how that is going all —— how

thatis with how that is going all —— how that is going. facebook invested billions in 2014. at the 0culus conference this week, an embattled mark zuckerberg get a good user wa nts. mark zuckerberg get a good user wants. i am excited to announce 0culus quest. vr this year has been all about two things: ditching the ca bles all about two things: ditching the cables and expensive computers go with them, then making the most of the new—found freedom to move. the devices allow you to look around in their direction, but you better stay sitting down, because if you move, the virtual movies not coming with you. —— virtual world. that disconnects and the commotion seconds. six degrees headset is a lady to look around and move around. much more convincing. there are diack clutch of hazards that offers six degrees of freedom. so what is so

six degrees of freedom. so what is so special about the 0culus quest? there are a few key qualities that any virtual reality system because of his galleys to have. first it needs to be stand—alone. that way there are no wires. second, it has to support hands. bird, it has two of our six degrees of freedom. 0culus ink six degrees is a secret weapon that allows them an advantage. if you look around me, there is not a singletrack to be seen, and that is because the four cameras are doing all that heavy lifting and figure out where i am in a room just by looking at it. this requires me to moves, so i need to be ready to not get an injury. a lovely headband on. i don't know that will help them. the whole space around me has been mimicked in virtual reality, so i can move around in this area. usually virtual reality experiences are constrained toa reality experiences are constrained to a small area of a few metres. but this can go a lot further. 0culus

said that it can work in huge arena sized spaces, opening up the possibility of new types of experiences. but there is not much point in having a brilliant new headset if you have nothing to do in it. it looks like having good content will be just as important. 0culus quest were keen to point out that there would be things you to do the new headset by the time goes on sale next year. but a host of games should convince people to buy into vr. 0culus wrapped up its conference this year with a tantalising taste of some of the research they are working on behind the scenes. creating more convincing interactions with our own bodies to helping us virtually connect with other people. the one on the right, there, is computer—generated. and by blurring the lines at any virtual and the real worlds. impressive stuff. but it is clear that there is still a lot to learn if virtual

reality is really going to change the world. that was steve. while virtual reality cuts the viewer from the real world, augmented reality is promising to in handset by overlaying whizzy graphics. the last few years, overlaying whizzy graphics. the last few yea rs, a overlaying whizzy graphics. the last few years, a company from florida called magic leap has been getting its vr goals, which can measure space around it and adapt visuals to suit. the swish videos showing sci—fi style user interfaces, and mindbending interactive experiences, credit lot of hype. at the problem was that he had actually got their hands or their eyes on a set of magic leap's gobbles it has them out. that was until recently, when the company finally released a developer version, costing nearly £1800. -- developer version, costing nearly £1800. —— goggles. but before the

inevitable consumer version drops, creatures were lack of experience as which will persuade us to invest in sets of techno— goggles which make us sets of techno— goggles which make us look like dr 0ffit was. marchers late has been hanging out at imaginary and studios to see what they have been cooking up in the effo rts they have been cooking up in the efforts to all they reality. —— imaginarium studios andy serkis is a master of performers capture. so much so that back in 2011, he founded imaginarium studios in london, a company dedicated to performers capture for movies, television, and games. using 60 or so cameras, performance television, and games. using 60 or so cameras, performance capture suits with tracking markers, and even software created the games, human actors can quickly be turned into out of this world computer—generated characters. right here we have a brilliant explanation of what is actually going on on the stage. in the two corners we can see

the actors, who are performing on the actors, who are performing on the stage, but on this screen right here, this is what the motion ca ptu re here, this is what the motion capture or performance capture cameras are actually seeing. and then over here, in real time, we can see those performances as cg characters, and they are using the unreal engine to help create those characters. —— unreal engine. which isa characters. —— unreal engine. which is a bit of videogame technology. using their performance capture know—how, imaginarium has teamed up with magic leap out of california to show off its ai tech. they have done this with help from then and pitted oi’c this with help from then and pitted orc called grishnak, a character created by andy circus incel. —— himself. s belongs to a group called super zeroes. you have to wonder, what happens to beautifully created,

wonderfully crafted pieces of character concept artwork that doesn't make the grade? grishnak is one of those characters whose life was going to be, he was destined to the an orc in the lord of the rings and he never quite make the grade. 0k, andy, time to strap on the magic leap headset and check out your performance up close. 0k, leap headset and check out your performance up close. ok, so our character has erupted out of the screen and is appearing through a hole in the wall. you know who we are? of course you don't know who we are, we are nobodies. i think i broke my ankle. now he is appearing in front of me here on this table, fully 3—dimensional. in front of me here on this table, fully 3-dimensional. i love you so much, please, take me home. i can sing, ican much, please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance. just take me home! the closest thing this looks like to anything you might see our the holograms in the original star wa rs the holograms in the original star wars films. george sears is part of

the team here. he brought bcg character to life. back in february, actually, we started, we did a half day shoot with andy, and later in the week, on the thursday and friday, me and another colleague, who was actually out in florida, we we re who was actually out in florida, we were learning how to use the device after shooting this data. and we had after shooting this data. and we had a version of grishnak on the table the days after shooting, i think it was. so we can start reviewing how the character looked. movies and television very much lean back as an experience. virtual reality and augmented reality, do they offer the opportunity for the audience to be pa rt opportunity for the audience to be part of the action, more leaning forward ? part of the action, more leaning forward? here we have a technology, performance capture, which i think is one of the greatest predictor century tools for an actor. it allows you to play anything, to become anything. and in a new platform, which is sort of taking storytelling into another realm, which almost brings you back to an

ancient form of storytelling, which is to be in and amongst the characters that have been created, not separated by a screen. so it is much more, it feels like you are living the story with the characters. this is not the only outfit experimenting with this a! technology. wetter digital and industrial light and magic have also created demonstrations to show the potential of this kit. but for now, this walk with an attitude shows a tantalising taste of the possibilities of augmented reality is. -- possibilities of augmented reality is. —— orc with an attitude. he has disappeared in a cloud of zeros and ones. now, one of those data companies that knows me better than most, but probably than me, is google. can you believe that this week it turned 20? although it looks pretty much the same as it did way back then, under the bonnet and behind the scenes, boy, has google grown. it all

started when these two guys, then studying at stanford university, began a small project to create a searchable list of the world's webpages. it was not the first on the scene but what set it apart from its rivals was its clean design and genius ranking system. but the google search engine is nowjust one business underneath its parent company, alphabet, which also makes the android operating system and the home voice assistance. then there is the mysterious moonshot factory, the research lab working on the more out there projects, like the self—driving car. not many people have seen inside moonshot, but alison got a rare opportunity to explore. this innovation lab has lofty ambitions to solve big world problems with tech breakthroughs.

here, people get excited about crazy ideas like delivering burritos from the sky. they even get bonuses for scrapping projects. so why is this fetish for failure part of their recipe for innovation? i am here to watch the labs next idea lift off the ground. like its biggest rival, amazon, google is hoping drones can ta ke amazon, google is hoping drones can take speedy deliveries to new heights. but unlike its competitors, this drone doesn't need to land to drop its load. instead, it uses a winch system to unhooked the package. it can fly for about 12 miles, carrying loads of up to 1.5 kilograms. the hover system allows us kilograms. the hover system allows us to hover with great reliability and safety. you see how there is 12 of these? we can have multiple failures and still fly 0k. wing has been delivering dog treats and

gathering data in australia for yea rs. gathering data in australia for years. but in the us, the competition is hotting up, thanks to an faa programme supported by the trump administration, in which about a dozen us regions will soon see drones buzzing in their skies. welcome to the design kitchen. this is the heart of the moonshot factory. this is were prototypes are designed, built, and sometimes even destroyed. taking me around is the man at the helm. he says people often think because of google's deep pockets they can just throw money at crazy ideas. people ask, regularly, you must have near infinite money to fail fast. it is exactly the opposite. you could figure out now that the project you are running has an achilles heel. that is going to doom it. or you could figure it out three years and tens of millions of dollars from now. you need is near infinite money to not fail fast. what we are suggesting, what we are

practising here, is being the card cou nters practising here, is being the card counters of innovation, not the gambles of innovation. so, this is a vial of foghorn fuel, which is one of my favourite products that we did at x. the idea was to make renewable fuel by extracting it from seawater. this project was trying to solve a much bigger problem than the world's deliveries. climate change. it had to be shafted a couple of years ago, because even though the method was liable, the cost was not. but kellett is proud of x's inventions, even its costly failures. we ran an experiment, and it turns out that is not the right way to do it. yeah, that happens 99% of the time, that the experiments we run turn out to have the answer, nope, nothing under that rock. but a fraction of the time, they get lucky. project lune is one of the x lab projects which

recently flew the coop. it hopes to bring internet connectivity to remote communities in the world. can you is first on the list. but relying on floating balloons to provide internet has its critics. it can go off—line when the atmospheric 01’ can go off—line when the atmospheric orfinancial can go off—line when the atmospheric or financial climate changes. some naysayers eve n or financial climate changes. some naysayers even wonder if this lab's geniuses are living in a bubble. is tell‘s tea m geniuses are living in a bubble. is tell‘s team even aware of the world beyond silicon valley? —— teller‘s. 0urjob should try to be to think through a thoughtfully and ethically as we can, what unintended consequences might be, and had those off at the pass, in how we design the technologies. —— head. off at the pass, in how we design the technologies. -- head. despite spin—offs, the lab has not yet made a profit. it may be a cliche to say that tech can make the world a better place, but these guys really believe it. that was alison van ginkel and at moonshot. and that is it for this

week. don't forget, we live on facebook and twitter. thanks for watching. we will see you soon. good morning. friday felt more like autumn because we had cool air coming from the north. not surprisingly the highest temperature was on the south coast. still 19 degrees — pretty good. over the weekend, high pressure closer by, so while there will be some showers around, for the most part dry with sunshine at times. it will probably turn cooler as the weekend goes on. pretty cold at the moment underneath that area of high pressure would be clearer skies. more atlantic winds across the northern half of the uk and a weak weather front as well. that is where the we have this band of cloud and patchy rain. ahead of it one or two showers for scotland and northern ireland. more cloud and quite a strong westerly wind. england and wales, winds lighter. a lot more sunshine. highs of about 18 degrees and it should feel quite pleasant as well.

not quite as warm for scotland and northern ireland, with the rain coming in to scotland in the evening. as it moves southwards, though, the rain peters out again. more a band of cloud heading down into england and wales. with more cloud debris, if you like, it won't be as cold, saturday night into sunday morning. it will feel chillier by day, mind you, because more cloud is moving southwards. behind it sunshine and some showers blown in on a brisk north to north—westerly wind. the bulk of the showers will be in the northern half of scotland. but temperatures will be lower across the board. 0nly around 12 or 13 degrees in scotland and ireland. 14—15 in the south. that chilly north to north—westerly airflow is with us for the start of the new month. but around the top of this area of high pressure, the wind will change direction across scotland and northern ireland, replacing a chilly northerly with a more atlantic westerly, bringing in rain to the north—west later. sunshine for england and wales — 14 degrees at best. showers possible to the north sea coasts. this band of rain in the north is initially quite heavy around that weather front there.

but it will topple southwards and then again it is a familiar story. everything just weakens. the rain tends die out and there won't be much of it let on tuesday for england and wales. but more cloud around. a bit more sunshine for scotland and perhaps northern ireland. a different feel to weather on tuesday, temperatures will begin to rise a little bit, but there will be much more cloud. we are left with a cloudy westerly airflow as we move into tuesday and wednesday. that means higher temperatures by day, higher temperatures by night, but but probably not as much sunshine. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to

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