there's been a confirmed sighting of a beluga whale in the river thames at gravesend this lunchtime, according to the london port authority. it's been seen near the barges, where it has spent much of the past four days. the whale appears to be moving up and down a one—mile stretch of the river. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. a fine enter the afternoon. different story further north, more clout for northern ireland and scotland, further outbreaks of rape and western isles, strong wind as well. just to get up to 50 mph, some warmth in the sunshine across central and southern england, turning cooler here to this evening and overnight. we will see outbreaks of rate slipping their way south and east to southern scotland, weakening as they do, clear skies behind, blustery showers and i had some clearer skies. tempter started to you all three celsius for southern

counties. a fair amount of cloud on sunday, that will be slipping its way south and east, a cloudy day for much of an glib and wales with bright sunny spells, but rather blustery showers across northern ireland and scotland, some heavy, some gusty winds as well. a cooler field for all. rise between ten and 15 sizes. —— highs. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... rescuers in indonesia say at least 384 people have been killed in the tsunami that struck the island of sulawesi. facebook resets the accounts of more than 50 million users after a major security breach. the business secretary warns that a no—deal brexit could jeopardise britain's status as a world leader in the car industry. people with severe allergies have been told they can use their epipens past their normal expiry date, because of a continuing shortage. now on bbc news it is temporary. ——

click. this week... drone delivers something. tim berners—lee turns the web on its head. and andy serkis plays a tormented, augmented orc. please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance, just take me home. i can do anything. knowledge is power — that's what we've been told. whoever holds the information has the control. our data is valuable.

it really is, you know, as everyone says, the new oil. and for years we have been giving it away in exchange for... what? free services: social networks, e—mail, convenient shopping. and all the while, big companies have been recording our every move, selling our data on, and even using it to micro—target us based our personalities. early this year, the european union brought in the general data protection regulation to protect our privacy. but large amounts of our personal data is still stored and used by the tech giants. and some 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 — were 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 citizens‘ data, but also really using citizens‘ tax money to actually fund the technology. it really is, you know, as everyone says, the new oil. it could become critical for the ways that citizens access and interact with different types of services, like public services — basically interact with the welfare state in their country. professor mariana mazzucato is an expert in global innovation and economic growth. she tries to put a value on the unvaluable. she's advocating a public body to safeguard our information. so you could, in fact, have a public data bank, where the data is actually stored, in something like a public repository or public data bank, which could be run by some sort of external advisory council.

as part of this early—stage concept, anyone wanting to access data held in regional or national repositories would have to apply for permission, and possibly pay a fee. the funds generated by these public data labs would be reinvested into areas such as the welfare state. but what about small, nimble start—ups that are trying to innovate? wouldn't they be crushed under the weight of such 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 that all we had to do was to make it free and open, and good things would happen, and humanity would create good things, ‘cause we had great faith in humanity. now we realise, actually, just making the infrastructure of the web and internet free and open isn‘t enough. his idea is to create an open operating system,

called solid, which sits on top of the current world wide web, which users will access through normal web browsers. here, every single piece of our data that‘s created will be stored in our own pods. each pod can connect and share information with pods belonging to other users, if we choose, or even with apps and organisations. so instead of the big data companies taking your data into their silos, any app sitting on the solid platform will instead have to ask your permission to read or write to your data pod. that choice is very powerful because it means that you can choose, all those places will respect you. they‘ll give you complete control over who and what has access to it. the value of your data to you is actually greater than the value to some arbitrary corporation. so to them you are a

dot in a data field, you help confirm the spending habits that people like you, of your demographic. but to you, you‘re you! the project which he hopes will mushroom into an ecosystem of decentralised data pods, apps, and companies, is, he says, galvanising pockets of online communities frustrated by the increasing centralised web. but interestingly, the tech companies are also making moves. known as the data transfer project, this new initiative allows data portability between platforms — currently google, facebook, microsoft and twitter. the point is to move the data directly from one service provider to the next, but obviously there are technical considerations at play. it is great to see that companies are embracing that vision. it is a form of complete user control. and it mightjust be that these giants are determined to handle and keep our data safely.

there are banks and insurance companies that have as much, if not more, of my personal data and i trust them way less than i trust a company that is trying figure out and ask questions. so many times they mess up, but they learn, because the pressure that we put on them actually 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 them? this is such a fast—moving area that, do you think that makes it difficult to regulate and keep contained, anyway? we need to have a certain mindset and value on a national level that we can work on from. because if we put limits and kind of borders on privacy, that‘s just going to put a stop on innovation. but if we give them values and fundamental principles

to base their 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‘s the real hard work — the resources and the innovation, that‘s what is important. ingredients alone — if i have a bunch of ingredients but i can‘t do anything about it, i won‘t make any great recipe or sell anything. it is the same here with data. but the father of the world wide web is hopeful that he can still realise that democratic vision of the web that he‘d originally worked towards. having agency all across the data spectrum. having complete control over your private and personal data is very exciting. an exciting vision, i think, for 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 fetched $375,000 at auction. and the tech giant bought song recognition app shazam $400 million. and swiss football fans hurled tennis balls and ps4 controllers onto a pitch in protest against club investment in e—sports. it was also the week where playstation announced that it would allow fortnite players to play players on other devices. they previously suffered criticism for blocking cross play, despite other platforms like nintendo and x—box supporting the interaction. and at the forefront of targetted drug delivery could be this fellow. this tiny caterpillaresque bot from the city university of hong kong 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 immersed in body fluids. and for slightly more digestible droid news, researchers at the university of cambridge have developed a lettuce—peeling robot. using image recognition to identify the lettuce and stem, a suction nozzle tears off the outer 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 few years was the year of virtual reality. but despite that, somehow, vr still hasn‘t 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‘s going. facebook paid $2 billion

for 0culus in 2014. fast forward a few years, at 0culus‘ fifth developers‘ conference in california this week, an embattled mark zuckerberg got the chance to give some good news for a change. i am excited to announce 0culus quest. vr this year has been all about two things: ditching the cables and expensive computers that go with them, and then making the most of the new—found freedom to move. three degrees of freedom devices devices allow you to look around in any direction, but you better stay sitting down, because if you move, the virtual world isn‘t coming coming with you, and that disconnect can lead to motion sickness. six degrees headsets change that, so you can look around and move around. much more convincing. there‘s already a clutch of headsets that allow six degrees of freedom. so what is so special

about the 0culus quest? we think that there are a few key qualities that any vr system that gets to this scale has to have. first it needs to be stand—alone. that way there are no wires. second, it has to support hands. third, it has to offer six degrees of freedom. 0culus think that full hand tracking is a secret weapon that puts the quest above the rest. but what does it give you? if you look around me, there is not a single tracker 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 move, so i need to be ready to not get an injury. dave has a lovely headband on. i don‘t know that will help them. the whole space around me has been mimicked in vr, so i can move around in this area. usually virtual reality experiences are constrained to a small area —

maybe a few metres. but this can go a lot further. 0culus said that it can work in huge arena—sized spaces, and any room in your home, 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 is going to bejust as important. 0culus were keen to point out that there would be stuff for you to do on the new headset by the time goes on sale next year. 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‘re working on behind the scenes. from 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. now, whilst virtual reality cuts the viewer off from the real world, augmented reality is promising to enhance it by overlaying whizzy graphics. for the last few years, a company from florida called magic leap has been teasing its ar goggles, which can measure the space around it and adapt visuals to suit. the swish videos showing sci—fi—style user interfaces and mindbending interactive experiences created a lot of hype, but the problem was, nobody had actually got their hands or their eyes on a set of magic leap‘s goggles to test them out. that was until recently when the company finally released a developer version, costing nearly £1800. but before the inevitable

consumer version drops, creatives have got to make experiences which will persuade us to invest in sets of techno—goggles that make us look like dr 0ctopus. marc cieslak has been hanging out at andy serkis‘ imaginarium studios to see what they have been cooking up in the efforts to all they reality. acclaimed actor and director andy serkis is a master of performance capture. i came for you. so much so that back in 2011, he founded the imaginarium studios in london, a company dedicated to performance capture for movies, tv, and games. using 60 or so cameras, performance capture suits with tracking markers, and even software created for games, human actors can be quickly 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 our actors who are performing on the stage, but on this screen right 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, which is a bit of videogames technology. using their performance capture know—how, the imaginarium has teamed up with florida—based super—secretive augmented reality outfit magic leap to show off its ar tech. they have done this with help from an embittered orc called grishnak, a character created in performance capture by andy serkis himself. grishnak is a character who belongs to a group of digital no—hopers called super zeroes. super zeroes are basically— you have to imagine, what happens to beautifully—created, wonderfully—crafted pieces

of character concept artwork that doesn‘t quite make the grade? grishnak is one of those characters whose life was going to be — he was destined to be an orc in the lord of the rings and he never quite made the grade. 0k, andy, time to strap on the magic leap headset and check out your performance up close. 0h, here we go. over here! ok, so our character has erupted out of the screen and is appearing through a hole in the wall over here. you know who we are? no, of course you don‘t know who we are, we‘re nobodies! oh, i think i‘ve broken my ankle. now he‘s appearing in front of me here on this table, fully 3—dimensional. i love you so 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 have already seen are the holograms in the original star wars films. george sears is part of the team here. he brought the cg 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 were learning how to use the device after shooting this data. and we had a version of grishnak on the table three days after shooting, i think it was. so we can start reviewing how the character looked. movies and tv are very much a "lean back" experience and virtual reality and augmented reality, do they offer the opportunity for the audience to be part of the action, more lean forward? here we have a technology, performance capture which i think is one of the greatest 21st century tools for an actor that allows you to play anything, to become anything. and 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‘s much more, it feels like you‘re living the story with the characters. this is not the only outfit experimenting with this ar technology. weta digital and industrial light & magic are also creating demos which explore the potential of this kit. for now though, this orc with an attitude delivers a tantalising taste of the possibilities provided by augmented realities. he‘s disappeared in a cloud of zeros and ones. now, one of those data companies that knows me better than most, better 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 home voice assistant. 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 van diggelen 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 lab‘s next idea lift off the ground. like its biggest rival, 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 unhook the package. it can fly for about 12 miles, carrying loads of up to 1.5 kilograms. the hover system allows us to hover with great reliability and safety. you see how there are 12 of these? we can have multiple failures and still fly 0k. wing has been delivering dog treats and 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 where prototypes are designed, built, and sometimes even destroyed. taking me around is the man at the helm, astro teller. 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 near—infinite money to not fail fast. what we are suggesting, what we are practising here, is being the card counters of innovation, not the gambles of innovation. so, this is a vial of foghorn sea 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 shelved a couple of years ago, because even though the method was viable, the cost was not. but teller is proud of x‘s inventions, even its costly failures. we ran an experiment, and it turns out that‘s 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. kenya is first on the list. but relying on floating balloons to provide internet has its critics. it can go off—line when the atmospheric or financial climate changes. some naysayers even wonder if this lab‘s geniuses are living in a bubble. is teller‘s team even aware of the world beyond silicon valley? 0urjob should try to be to think through, as thoughtfully and ethically as we can, what unintended consequences might be, and head those off at the pass, in how we design the technologies. 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 diggelen at moonshot.

and that‘s it for this week. don‘t forget, we‘re live on facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching. we‘ll see you soon. it isa it is a fine end to the afternoon across much of england and wales. plenty of late september sunshine. this was norwich earlier this afternoon. a slightly different story further north and west. north—west of england and northern ireland and scotland, cloud and stronger winds and blustery showers. all connected to this frontal system which will continue to slowly slide

south and east to this evening and overnight. it will end the day but some strong winds particularly across northern and western scotland. these are average speed but the gusts for the western isles and highlands could be 4555 mph. temperatures not much higher than 1213 but had further south across much of england and wales will end the day with between 16 and 18. this evening and overnight outbreaks of rain continued to work south and east. much weaker and patchy as they did. clearer skies behind. ahead of it under clearer skies southern counties of england and wales, temperatures two or three celsius in more rural spots but five and nine for most. sunday still following the progress of this front, continuing to work its way south and east. it i’u ns to work its way south and east. it runs into high so rain tends to fizzle out and global thin and bright. behind it, a cold front is so some

bright. behind it, a cold front is so some colder air behind. a cooler day across most of the uk through tomorrow. we start sunday morning with a fair tomorrow. we start sunday morning withafairamount tomorrow. we start sunday morning with a fair amount of cloud stretching from northern england into north wales and the midlands. that will move south and east. a cloudy day across england and wales but aside from the odd spot of rain mainly dry. sunshine for northern ireland and scotland but further heavy blustery showers pushing with strong winds. generally between ten and 15. a few degrees lower than today. monday an area of high pressure building in from the west and more of a northerly wind. chilly start of the day on monday under clear skies. much of the uk mainly dry. sunshine. a few showers running down from western and eastern coast. later in the day the cloud starts to gather across north—west scotland with further outbreaks of rain and strengthening winds. a cool day on monday. highs between ten and 15 celsius. this is bbc news.

the headlines at 4pm: rescuers in indonesia say hundreds of people have been killed in the tsunami that struck the island of sulawesi. translation: as for the tsunami damage, we have received a number of reports that many bodies were found along the shoreline but the numbers are still unknown. the business secretary warns that a no—deal brexit could jeopardise britain‘s status as a world leader in the car industry. a security breach in the conservative party conference app reveals contact details for senior mps and journalists. also coming up — a great day‘s work by europe‘s golfers in the ryder cup. rory mcilroy and sergio garcia lead the charge as europe go four points clear of the usa. and in dateline londonjane hill and the panel discuss