the latest headlines: authorities in indonesia say they'll end search and rescue efforts on friday for survivors of last week's tsunami and earthquake, that hit the island of sulawesi. at least m00 people are confirmed killed in the disaster, but officials say the number of dead is likely to rise. the british goverment has accused russian military intelligence of a series of cyber attacks on organisations spanning the worlds of politics, business, media and sport. british authorities say the group, known as fancy bear, hacked the world anti—doping agency to leak confidential medical files on athletes. the lawyer for an american woman who's accused the football star cristiano ronaldo of raping her nine years ago in a las vegas hotel says she was emboldened to come forward by the metoo movement. the portuguese footballer has strongly denied the claim. police in las vegas have reopened their investigation. it's time now 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 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've 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. earlier 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 that it should actually 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. now, the real question is what is the contract that society should be making, in fact, 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's actually stored in something like a public repository, a 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's 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. and 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. and 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‘re a dot in a data field, you help confirm the spending habits of 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‘s great to see that companies are embracing that vision, it‘s 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 to 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 aren‘t as bad as they‘re often made out to be, should the 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 it 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‘s only going to give them a direction of where to go. and let‘s go back to the thought that data is the new oil. now, you could argue that the oil under the ground does belong

to us all. but it‘s 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‘s 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 esports. it was also the week where playstation announced that it would allow fortnite players to play players on other devices. the company had previously suffered criticism for blocking cross play, despite other platforms like nintendo and x—box supporting the interaction. and at the forefront of targeted drug delivery could be this feller. this tiny caterpillar—esque 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 then gently 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. 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. so, let‘s start off by checking on on how that‘s going. facebook paid $2 billion for 0culus in 2014. fast forward a few years, at 0culus‘ fifth developer

conference in california this week, an embattled mark zuckerberg got the opportunity to deliver 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 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 of freedom headsets change that, so now you can look around and move around. much more convincing. there‘s already a clutch of standalone headsets that offer six degrees of freedom. so what‘s so special about the quest? we think that there are a few key qualities that any vr system that gets to this scale needs to have.

so first, it needs to be stand—alone. that way there are no wires. second, it‘s got to support hands. and 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. so what do those extra degrees of freedom give you? if you look around me, there‘s not a single tracker to be seen, and that is because the four cameras are doing all that heavy lifting and figuring out where i am in a room just by looking at it. this requires me to move, so i need to be ready. i don‘t want to get an injury. dave‘s got a lovely headband on. i don‘t know if that is going to help him. 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, basically however big your living room is,

but this can go a lot further. 0culus say 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‘s not much point having a brilliant new headset if there‘s 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 it goes on sale next year. with a host of games built to make the most of the tech and, crucially, 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 between the virtual and the real worlds. impressive stuff. but it‘s clear that there‘s still a lot to learn if virtual reality really is 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‘ve been cooking up in an effort to all they reality. —— augment. 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 there, we can see oui’ 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, the 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, kind of, 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, it‘s 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 serkis, 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 on the device. 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 that 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 one the scene, but what set it apart from its rivals was its clean design and it‘s 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 that works on the more out—there projects, like the weimo 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 drone, 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 we can still fly 0k. wing has been delivering dog treats and gathering tons of 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. he says people often think because of google‘s deep pockets they can just throw money at crazy ideas. people ask, regularly, you have to 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 gamblers 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 c02 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, 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 that 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 try 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 hasn‘t yet made a profit. it may be a cliche to say 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 live on facebook and on twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching. we‘ll see you soon. hello there.

the weather for the next couple of days is looking fairly benign before something a bit more active appears during the course of the weekend, with some pretty heavy and persistent rain for some. the pressure chart, as we head into thursday, shows high pressure dominating the scene for most. this weather system will continue to encroach into the far north—west corner into the country to bring increasing breeze, cloud, and outbreaks of rain. further south, mainly dry bar the odd light shower around, bit of early mist and fog which should clear through the morning. much like wednesday we should see the clouds thin and break and some sunny spells. the wind lighter across the south, turning stronger across this north—west corner, where it will be cool. further south, given some sunshine, this warm air mass, it could make 17—19 or perhaps 20 degrees. heading through thursday night,

the weather front in the north—west sinks further southwards and comes to a halt across central parts of the country. here it will be wet. to the north, clear and quite cold. to the south, variable cloud and also very mild conditions. for friday, we‘ll have a 3—way split. we continue to see this weather front through central areas, bringing outbreaks of rain to northern england and parts of wales. to the south of it, given some sunny spells, again in that mild air mass, it‘s going to be quite warm, temperatures around 20—21 degrees. to the north of the weather front, scotland and northern ireland, largely dry but cool. 10—12 degrees. still some uncertainty on the weekend weather. it looks like this developing area of low pressure will bring a spell of very wet weather, primarily to england and wales, much of scotland and northern ireland, bar the off shower should stay largely dry on saturday with some sunshine. it could be very wet across parts of england and wales,

particularly central, southern, and eastern england. up to an inch in spots. it will be feeling quite cool generally across the board. across the far south—east we could see temperatures in the high teens, before the cooler, wetter weather moves in from the west. on sunday, that area of low pressure pushes off into the near continent. a ridge of high pressure builds. we could see a window of fine weather before the next weather system makes inroads across the north—west corner of the uk. meanwhile, a clearance across the south—east. winds picking up once again across the north—west. elsewhere, it should be fairly light. in the sunshine, it won‘t feel too bad. temperatures ranging from 12 to 15 degrees. so the weekend is certainly going to be a mixed one. there will be quite a lot of rain for some of us. there will be some spells of sunshine as well, so it‘s not going to be a complete washout. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name‘s mike embley.

our top stories: rescuers say time is running out in the desperate search for survivors from indonesia‘s earthquake and tsunami. translation: she often asks, "where‘s my mum?" "where has my mother gone?" i tell her we‘re still looking for her, or i say "your mother has gone on a long journey." authorities are still struggling to get aid to some areas. many survivors are thirsty, hungry, and have no shelter. britain accuses russian intelligence of a series of cyber—attacks on organisations spanning the worlds of politics, business, media and sport. and footballer cristiano ronaldo says he firmly denies raping a woman in a us hotel room nine years ago.