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hello good afternoon. this could run into thousands. is a 7. bbc triggered a tsunami with waves of up to six metres. news, caroline davies reports. the from above, the true impact of this earthquake headlines... starts to become clear. homes crumpled and swept away, a bridge collapsed and submerged. this was a shopping centre, now buckled and bent. conference gets under way. this woman and her she also accuses labour of undermining the national interest. daughters were inside when the earthquake hit. politics with brexit and start acting in the started falling around us. national interest. the best deal for with all my daughters and we made it to britain. the outside and we were safe. the earthquake also triggered
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a tsunami. island of sulawesi. with many thought to be trapped under collapsed where hundreds of people had gathered for a beach buildings. festival. and damaged communications networks. that said he was ready to take the firm private. he'll also pay a £15 million the airport has now reopened. shaken and injured, some were evacuated by the fine. military. bandaged and taken to the province's capital. many others were of two women in kent. left in palu. now on bbc news, it's time for 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. i'll be good! knowledge is
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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. based our personalities.
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protection regulation to protect our privacy. and used by the tech giants. and some argue it should be wholly owned by us. were publicly funded in the first place. to actually fund the technology. it really is, you know, as everyone says, the new oil. basically interact with the welfare state in their country.
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and economic growth. she tries to put a value on the unvaluable. she's advocating a public body to safeguard our information. of external advisory council. and possibly pay a fee. reinvested into areas such as the welfare state. are trying to innovate? big public regulators?
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who is now reassessing some aspects of his invention. things, cos we had great faith in humanity. of the web and internet free and open isn't enough. access through normal web browsers. stored in our own pods. with apps and organisations.
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to ask your permission to read or write to your data pod. choose, all those places will respect you. they'll give you complete control over who and what has access to it. to some arbitrary corporation. habits that people like you, of your demographic. but to you, you're you! by the increasing centralised web. but interestingly, the tech companies are also making moves.
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microsoft and twitter. considerations at play. it is great to see that companies are embracing that vision. it is a form of complete user control. and keep our data safely. and ask questions. that we put on them actually affects them. to be, should regulators get more creative in managing them? difficult to regulate
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and keep contained, anyway? that we can work on from. that's just going to put a stop on innovation. 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. that's what is important. recipe or sell
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anything. it is the same here with data. that democratic vision of the web that he'd originally worked towards. having agency all across the data spectrum. data is very exciting. of what it will be like. hello and welcome to the week in tech. $375,000 at auction. and the tech giant bought song recognition app shazam $400 million. onto a pitch in protest against club investment in e—sports.
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would allow fortnite players to play players on other devices. supporting the interaction. and at the forefront of targetted drug delivery could be this fellow. inside the body requiring treatment. immersed in body fluids. a lettuce—peeling robot. the rest of the vegetable. the entire process takes a savoury 27 seconds.
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was the year of virtual reality. but despite that, somehow, vr still hasn't gone mainstream. 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. the chance to give some good news for a change. i am excited to announce 0culus quest.
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of the new—found freedom to move. coming with you, and that disconnect can lead to motion sickness. 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? 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. the quest above the rest.
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but what does it give you? and figure out where i am in a room just by looking at it. and don't want to get an injury. dave has a lovely headband on. i don't know that will help them. so i can move around in this area. maybe a few metres. but this can go a lot further. of new types of experiences. if you have nothing to do in it. it looks like having good content is going to bejust as important. for you to do on the new headset by the time goes on
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sale next year. a host of games should convince people to buy into vr. of some of the research they're working on behind the scenes. 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. if virtual reality is really going to change the world. that was steve. whizzy graphics. around it and adapt visuals to
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suit. or their eyes on a set of magic leap‘s goggles to test them out. a developer version, costing nearly £1800. to invest in sets of techno—goggles that make us look like dr 0ctopus. to all they reality. of performance capture.
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i came for you. for movies, tv, and games. into out—of—this—world computer—generated characters. going on on the stage. capture or performance capture cameras are actually seeing. of videogames technology.
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reality outfit magic leap to show off its ar tech. by andy serkis himself. called super zeroes. of character concept artwork that doesn't quite make the grade. and he never quite made the grade. out your performance up close. 0h, here we go. over here!
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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. fully 3—dimensional. i love you so much, please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance! just take me home! 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. the device after shooting this data. days after shooting, i think it was.
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so we can start reviewing how the character looked. for the audience to be part of the action, more lean forward? you to play anything, to become anything. created, not separated by a screen. with the characters. with this ar technology. which explore the potential of this kit.
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by augmented realities. he's disappeared in a cloud of zeros and ones. better probably than me, is google. can you believe that this week it turned 20? under the bonnet and behind the scenes, boy, has google grown. to create a searchable list of the world's webpages. from its rivals was its clean design and genius ranking system.
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the android operating system and home voice assistant. the self—driving car. but alison van diggelen got a rare opportunity to explore. problems with tech breakthroughs. 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. speedy deliveries to new
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heights. to land to drop its load. instead, it uses a winch system to unhook the package. 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. in australia for years. in their skies. welcome to the design kitchen. this is the heart of the moonshot factory. and sometimes even destroyed. taking me around is the man at the helm, astro teller.
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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. has an achilles heel that is going to doom it. of dollars from now. you need near—infinite money to not fail fast. the gambles of innovation. products that we did at x. the idea was to make renewable fuel by extracting it from seawater. than the world's deliveries — climate
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change. because even though the method was viable, the cost was not. its costly failures. the right way to do it. out to have the answer, nope, nothing under that rock. but a fraction of the time, they get lucky. which recently flew the coop. communities in the world. kenya is first on the list. but relying on floating balloons to provide internet has its critics. or financial climate changes. are living in a bubble. is teller‘s team even aware of the world beyond silicon valley?
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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. but these guys really believe it. that was alison van diggelen at moonshot. and that's it for this week. don't forget, we live on facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching. we'll see you soon. hello, there.
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a bit of an autumn chill in the air. yesterday in many areas. through the rest of today. of showers across the north—west. the british isles. right across the uk. of england and south wales. to the north, some spells of sunshine but quite a few showers.
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in northern ireland, maybe one or two north—west england. and temperatures around 14 degrees at best. it will turn chilly. and edinburgh will be at two or three degrees. to the new working week. wind as the day wears on.
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of rain late in the day. and the winds do switch around to more of a westerly direction. something a bit less chilly. will feel less chilly.
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