professionals... the yesterday. the professionals... racing insiders say that not an air don't hurt the horses, but they concede there is a question about how they are perceived. justin rose finished the day one over par, ending up on nine under par. inside where he needs to be. for british spy) with the chance of winning £50,000 each if they can win gold medals tomorrow at the tae kwon do world grand slam in china. double 0lympic do world grand slam in china. double olympic champion jade jones was do world grand slam in china. double 0lympic championjadejones was the first to make it through into her final. all the action is being streamed live on the bbc sport website and on the red button. in boxing, the british super middleweight rocky fielding has made the wii ahead his fight against saul

canal alvarez. fielding, who holds the bell, came in .2 of the pound heavier than his opponent. fielding isa heavier than his opponent. fielding is a massive outsider for the bout, which takes place in the early hours of tomorrow in new york. it is the weight i am comfortable that. it is a weird he is stepping up to. i'm naturally stronger. that gives me the confidence, and also i can box, ican the confidence, and also i can box, i can fight. i am a world champion. anything can happen in boxing and i prepared the best they can prepare. the first formula he race is under way in saudi arabia. bmw started on pole. felipe massa is making his competitive debut in the sport. you can watch it live on the bbc sport website and the red button. listen

out for the whistle of the car is rather than the war of any engines, it is very different, but great to watch. that is all the sport to watch. that is all the sport to watch. you can go to our bbc sport website. the manchester city against everton game is still goalless. now it is time for click. now it is time for click. this week: tech driven by women, designed by women, and designed for women. oh dear... the children at this north london school have invited

lara and me to learn about one of the most important events in british history. it has been 100 years since the first women in the uk were able to vote in a general election. and this vr experience is attempting to demonstrate how important it is to make your voice heard. and now repeat after me, this is my voice. all: this is my voice. before the suffragettes, a woman had to know her place. make noise is an eight minute interactive animated documentary story which you use your voice to interact with and it's about the story of the suffragettes. i walked down the strand and the first shop i came to, which was a jeweller's, bang went my hammer through the window. in the early 20th century the british suffragette movement fought for the right of women

to vote by protesting and damaging buildings, all the while facing ridicule and anger in the media. sing a note and make a monument with your voice. holding for as long as you can. and that's something that seemed to resonate with everyone in the room. yes, it did make me feel quite self—conscious to simply make noise, but that was the whole point — for both the female, and maybe more importantly, male participants. reminding everyone of the importance of their voice being heard and valued. what did you think of the experience today? really good and epic. how much of a difference do you think it made learning about a subject like this in vr? i know more about history compared to other games. we can understand it rather than looking at old footage,

which makes it seem as though it's boring. if we this way it is more fun watch. when we think about the suffragettes we think about these women, in starched, neat clothing, and we think they're not us. and actually when you hear what they say and the way that they say it and they are giggling and punk as hell, you think, 0k, actually you can teach me something about how i need to be. this isn't just about them. do you think men and women are equal now? they're not equal. in what ways? men still get paid more than women. look at the buckets, one by one, and call out the names of the women who've inspired you. my mum! sonia! my mum! theresa! they seemed very excited when they could shout out the names of women who'd inspired them. who were yours? um, well, i'm on here because of tomorrow's world, the bbc science programme.

and so maggie philbin and judith hann. ..before it can ever fly again. sadly, we may now have taken a step backwards in terms of female figures in technology. the 19705 saw the invention of the computer—driven wordprocessor, built by evelyn berezin, who died this week at the age of 93. in the 805, almost 40% of american computer science majors were women. but by 2012 this number had halved. today, in silicon valley, the heart of tech innovation, women only make up a quarter of the workforce. and female founders, on average, get less than half the investment of their male counterparts. that's maybe not surprising when you hear that only 7% of investors are women. so with stats like these we end up living in the world where most

things are still designed by men, even if they are designed for women. case in point, this audio interface was recently being marketed specifically to women. great, isn't it...? the company has since apologised. for a long time the advertising world thought that any piece of tech could be adapted to the female marketjust by shrinking it and pinking it. in london's design museum i presented researcher in feminist science and tech sarah kember with one such honking example. may i interest you in a pink round phone that's basically a make—up mirror with some buttons on it? yeah, it does resemble a powder compact or whatever it was... yeah. it's quite archaic. do you think this would be used practically by women or do you think this might be something that's designed by a man who thinks they know what women might want? i think generally speaking you can see it is designed for an idea of women.

some women will fancy that... you cannot even see in the middle of the mirror. there is a screen in the way. it is not quite as practical as it seems. pink is a way of linking to gender. it's a bit of a shorthand. not all women like pink, clearly. it's a marketing strategy. even with something as critical as artificial hearts, women have been overlooked for a long time. their design was based on larger hearts that typically fit men, and only one fifth of female patients. only now a smaller one is being developed. and, unbelievably, car crash testing was performed only on male dummies up until a few years ago, resulting in 50% more injuries to female passengers even with a seatbelt on. but even when things are designed exclusively for women, they may not end up being particularly comfortable. the traditional breast pump is the epitome of how awful technology can be designed for women. so tania boler went on to design

this, a new style pump. it's called elvie and it fits into a nursing bra and is operated by an app. the design was based on her own past experiences as a nursing mother. i don't know if you are familiar with a breast pump, but when i used it is painful, it's big, it's cumbersome, it's noisy. women often say they feel like cows, ‘cause they're just so embarrassed to use this outdated piece of equipment. i genuinely believe that if men were using the traditional breast pump they would have redesigned it a long time ago. because it's for women and it is an intimate issue that nobody talks about, it's been completely neglected. so i met up with someone who's recently had a baby and has been testing the device. getting the latch right and the sensation and all of those elements. it would need to have been someone who had breast—fed. the sensation and the usability would need to have been, understandably, designed by women. for a busy mum like me with two older kids, and to run a business, it is a dream come true.

and it can be subtle differences in elements of the design that make a product feel more personal. 0k, well, let's get personal now with some digital assistants. but what gender do these personal servants assume? female voice: six minutes, 34 seconds... 0k, google, what's the weather going to be today? female voice: in london today there will be showers with a forecast high of 13 and a low of 12. and here we have the latest apple ipad in its default setting. hey, siri, what's the weather going to be like? male voice: here's the weather today. yep, so apple are now defaulting, in some cases at least, to a male voice. cortana, what gender are you? female voice: i am digital. but you're really

a female, aren't you? because that's a female voice. right. that's the point. when these various voices were devised there were deliberately devised to be female because the companies in question spoke to their consumers and their consumers told them, look, you know, if we've got something that's an assistant we would expect it to be female and friendly. these are the kind of avatars developed by some of the biggest companies in the world. answerlab is an outfit in san francisco that road tests potential digital assistants. now, the problem we ran into with having so many avatars as women is, one, they reinforce the stereotypes, but they're also so hard to get right. you have probably noticed that the world is very critical of what women look like, the world is critical of how women speak. so when we look at avatars being made as women, we have to ask ourselves what are the ethical

implications for always making them in this style? what does this reinforce in terms of stereotypes in our society? if we look at society as a whole, across many, many, many spectrums, we tend to see women claim roles that these assistants would play for women. so it's natural that people would often ask for this. but how happy are customers, especially female ones, with these kind of decisions? any time a brand tends to over stereotype what a female avatar would look like, they make her too submissive, that tends to really turn off women who say this is not how we want to interact with a brand or how we want the brand to represent itself to us. and it's that diversity that al has the potential to offer us. lately, though, it has come under scrutiny for doing the exact opposite and, instead, reinforcing inbuilt biases. it's been really interesting of the last few weeks to see what happened with amazon,

for example, they deployed ai driven software to make decisions around recruitment. funnily enough, all the cvs they were choosing, they were men. so they had to stop using the software. so of course there are serious issues around bias and fairness of algorithms, which can be mitigated in two different ways. there are the datasets, artificial intelligence is based on historic data. historic data mirrors the situation right now. if attention is not put in the choice of data in the system, then the outcome will be a biased outcome. many start—ups working on al recruitment tools explicitly sell their services as a way to avoid biases. and amazon now say they are working on an ai recruitment tool, this time with a focus on diversity. we need girls, we need women doing design, doing tech, but we really need to understand what we mean by design and tech, and that it's

all always a social practice. it's about our future, it's about how we deploy ai in a way that is equitable for everyone but also doesn't turn stereotypes, which are already in society right now, into prejudice, which are ultimately much for difficult to eradicate. i think it's sometimes tempting to believe the chatter that we are making progress in the area of gender equality in tech, but the truth is we still have miles to go. absolutely. statistics from both the us and the uk suggest that there's a lower proportion of women working in tech then there had been. i think something that really became apparent when making that film was that talking to people there seems to be a general opinion that men and women do think differently. so when it comes to design, putting both together should come up with the best results. so that equality is really important. let's to it, people!

hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week in which the nhs decided it really shouldn't be buying any more fax machines. meghan markle was named the most googled women in the uk for the second year running. and another bug was discovered in google plus. the flaw has lead to google deciding to shut down the service earlier than planned — in april. a busy week for google, as its chief exec, sundar pichai, appeared before the housejudiciary committee in the states. he faced accusations of political bias. the boss was also asked why if you google the word ‘idiot‘ in the images section donald trump shows up. his answer, "it's all about the algorithms." it was also the week in which us football team the denver broncos showed off a robot bartender for its fans, although that pint looks like it has left a bit to be desired. virgin galactic has put its passenger craft,

carrying two pilots, into space. it flew 82 kilometres up, that's the highest a commercial vehicle carrying humans has ever gone. and, finally, it was the week in which russian state tv was fooled by a robot. this bot stole the tech show held north of moscow, but it wasn't the droid russia 2a was looking for. the broadcaster and quite a few others were fooled, but keen social media watchers weren't, as they spotted the movements won't so much a boston dynamics, but more human boogie—woogie. sly moves. now, if the tech industry has issues with gender balance, you want to take a look at the maritime world, where just 2% of seafarers are female. emily bates has been to snowy turku in finland, land of a thousand lakes, to track down a female captain whose career is about to be transformed by technology. there are many of them, but there

are just a few ladies on board. but, yeah, if you do yourjob well, then it shouldn't be a problem. anu loved her life at sea, working her way up the ranks over many years. but once she started a family, she found it increasingly difficult. oh, no! the children don't understand where she is and why she is a long time away. so it wasn't easy. it became kind of obvious that i need to have a shorebased job to continue. i wouldn't want to miss them growing up. but new tech may allow anu to continue her career at sea

while still coming home to herfamily each night. i went to turku to get on board what is being called the future of shipping. ships like these make up part of finland's road network and complete millions ofjourneys each year. i'm about to get on one that doesn't have a driver. this ship has been retrofitted with a variety of sensors and cameras which allow it to navigate by itself. it can set sail, complete the crossing and even dock itself, all without any human intervention. anu has been heavily involved in the development of the tech. we have object detection, which is done by our intelligent awareness system, which is doing sensorfusion. it using ais radar and camera to detect an object. this is going to the autonomous navigation system, which is then

the brains who is kind of deciding whether these objects are dangerous for the vessel or not and whether we need to avoid them. one of these little boats here, we're making sure we don't hit it basically? we are. and we haven't hit it, which is always good. so it's working! during testing, there's still a crew for safety, but it's a bit eerie knowing no—one's in control. while ship's captains like anu went eventually be on board, they will be piloting multiple craft from the shore. should something go wrong with an autonomous vessel, one of these places will be able to take control of it from onshore and steer it to safety no matter where it was in the world. rolls royce, who is behind the technology, believes that in under 20 years ultimately we'll see un—manned, fully autonomous ships crossing our oceans. jobs are, as ever, one concern, but as with any piece of connected

tech, a big worry is cyber security. what we have done is we have really put a lot of effort into cyber security from the very beginning of our development. the other thing that immediately springs to mind is piracy. we can try to make it hard for pirates to get on board, but probably at some point they can enter the vessel. what you do then of course is you don't allow them to take control of the vessel. by not giving them access to the system, they basically cannot steer the vessel, so their only option is actually to disable the machinery, stop the vessel. having a ship floating in the middle of the ocean without propulsion is not easy. this technology may never be a substitute for the romance of the sea, but it could let people like anu balance the life they want using their years of training and expertise with family life. yeah, it's worth it. you can see them every day and enjoy this kind of life as well. welcome to robotex, a huge

robotics festival this year held in tallinn, estonia. participants from 46 countries are vying to win 100,000 euros in prize money to develop their robotic prototype further. if you want, please come here... yes, hiding amid the wonders, wires and wi—fi connected devices here are one team of teenage girls who have really made it against all odds. afghanistan — a country in turmoil. leading an ordinary life in this

war—ravaged country is hard, especially if you're female. it's been described as the worst place on earth to be a woman. kabul‘s babur gardens were lit up this week to mark the close of the un's 16 days of activism to end gender—based violence. yet in the western city of herat, this group of teenage girls cast aside day—to—day concerns over safety, security and mere survival to do something most girls in this country can only dream of. aptly, they are known as the afghan dreamers. translation: every child has a dream, robotics became mine when i watched cartoons with robots as a six—year—old kid. seeing them walking and talking like humans made me think about how they're built, and what makes them different from us.

every week, they get together to code and build robots. their inventions are trying to find solutions to very local problems. translation: more than 8096 of the afghan population works in agriculture, which is still a very manual process here. we would like to change that. 0ur bot can cut wheat and handle the first process, and eventually we would like it to separate the wheat as well, making it easier for the farmer. fatima is the team leader. unusually, her father had greatly encouraged her, only tragically she lost him last year in a suicide bombing, a stark reminder of life here. the girls won last year's prestigious robotex contest in estonia, and that gave them the chance to be able to better their device. so this year, they've gone back with the improved version hoping

they could win the big—money prize on offer this time around. congratulations on reaching the final of the competition, how are you feeling? i'm so excited for this. so we have in here two robots. as you know, saffron is so famous in afghanistan. it is hard for women collecting the saffron by hand. so with this robot, we can help them to collecting all the saffron easier than by hand. we can cut the saffron in here and then we have a process in here. we can do process, and then in here we have an elevator so all saffron can go in here. from there, they can be packaged and transported by the other robot. as a girl interested in robotics in afghanistan, what challenges are you up against? the big challenge is that some families don't allow their girls to go to a robotics convention, because they think a girl isjust for home. i think it's wrong because girls can be like man to do something.

i want to be a mechanical engineer in the future, and i want to help my country to improve there, like, customs, whatever they want. so i want to help them. the team's mentor is one of afg hanistan's first female tech founders, who's running the digital citizen fund, a non—profit aimed at empowering women. you're still faced with most of the challenge, with cultural problems, security and many stereotypes. sometimes when you have confidence... i don't want you to tell the the mens i'm an engineer, they have to build it, i'm an engineer, i don't need to explain to them. we work on our projects and we prove with actions. we don't need to talk. while change won't come overnight, we may be seeing the dawn of a generation who want to think anything is possible, and surely that's a start.

wow, that is such an inspiring story. brilliant, brilliant. absolutely, it really was. sadly, that's all we've got time for this week. if you want to keep up with the team between programmes, you can find us on facebook and twitter... @bbcclick. 0n instragram... @bbcclick. at youtube.com/... bbcclick. thanks for watching. see you soon. some serious weather today with the potential for widespread disruption

because of the wintry nature. storm deidre is bearing down across the uk, bringing heavy rain and strong to gale force winds, but as it comes into the cold air, the met office has amber warnings for ice and snow. freezing rain is unusual here in the uk. the risk is from the midlands northwards, and to the central and lowla nds northwards, and to the central and lowlands of scotland. there is another amber warning lights, this time for snow. some extremely dangerous conditions. this storm deidre, already blowing a gale. that could be storm force winds at the coast and over the hills for a time. as the day progresses, the rain could turn to freezing rain in central and northern areas, and significant snow, coupled with the winds there will be blizzard conditions. even on the site were it is mostly rain, this could still be snow. it will be blowing so strong

it will make you feel really raw indeed. 0ver it will make you feel really raw indeed. over the hills and wheels you can indeed. over the hills and wheels you can see show indeed. over the hills and wheels you can see snow for parts of england, but that risk of widespread black ice, that rain falling on frozen surfaces, and almost instantaneously causing ice rink conditions. significant snow in scotland, a0 centimetres on the hills and mountains. storm deidre will bring a change eventually to milder weather, but we are seeing that transition with some very nasty winter weather around. almost all of oui’ severe weather winter weather around. almost all of our severe weather happening on monday, we don't often get a day like this. through this evening and overnight, it continues to blow a gale, another sting in the tail of the storm as it moves into the north sea. cold overnight for things to freeze. not as cold as last night. at that time we get the sunday herald looks a lot quieter. the

winds will ease, the rain and snow will start to fade and we will get scattering of showers. more showers not great, but it will be milder. the warnings are on the website. good afternoon. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has appealed to mps across the political divide to "forge a consensus" over brexit, acknowledging that the prime minister's deal might not be approved by parliament. her comments in a newspaperfollow another difficult eu summit for theresa may in which she failed to win concessions that might make her withdrawal deal acceptable to mp5. here's our political correspondent, tom barton.