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theresa may survived a vote of no confidence on wednesday, just a day after the brexit agreement she negotiated with the european union was decisively rejected by mps on all sides. britain is due to leave the eu in 10 weeks, and parliament is deadlocked. kenya's police chief has said 21 people are now known to have died in tuesday's attack on a hotel and office complex in nairobi. among the dead is a police officer. another 28 people injured in the attack have been admitted to hospital. the extremist group that calls itself islamic state has claimed responsibility for an explosion in northern syria which killed at least a dozen local people and 4 us nationals — including two service members. it was in the kurdish—held town of manbij. now on bbc news... it's time for click. this week, the big hitters for 2019, starring bed rockers, skintight suits, the new click
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intern and queen... # we will, we will rock you... # well, sort of. 2019 starts with the consumer electronic show in las vegas. this is whereypu'camgtcrseg anything to get attention basically, which is vegas all over. what will the coming year look like? what is the important tech that you need to look out for? we're going to try and tell
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the story of ces 2019 by bringing you 20 bits of tech in 19 minutes. blimey, that's a lot of stuff in not a lot of time. we better crack on. quick tip — ces is always a mix of big trends and stuff and nonsense. i'll leave you to work out which is which. so reset the counter, reset the clock, and we'll start with something that is always big here — tvs. the big screen technology here is 0led, or it can be transparent. it can also be very thin, and of course it can be 8k, which is all the rage, with four times the resolution of 4k. the simple structure of 0led also means you can attach these things called exciters to the back of the display.
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now those are really, really thin things that turn the whole display into a speaker. now there are about five exciters, i think, on the back of the screen. i have to say it really does sound like the audio is coming from the right part of the picture — and that's basically because it is. and finally this year, we've seen actual practical uses of possibly 0led's coolest feature. it can be bendy. flexible displays, what will they think of doing with them next? anyway, good, 0led is off and running. here comes lara with number two. well, if you've been meaning for a while to getting around to having an eye test but haven't quite had time, the solution could be this. this device attaches to a smartphone and you can test your own eyes. now what you do is, you look through one eye at a time and there is a green line and a red line. and you need to get them
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to move closer together. you just tap this button on top to do it and... there we go. i hope i'm not going to learn anything surprising. repeat the process on each eye and, from there, if needed, you'll be told your prescription so you can order glasses online. but you probably also want to know what the numbers it comes up with actually mean. this one means you have slight near-sightedness. 0k. not too bad, but you might want to go to a doctor and just check out your eyes. ok, so the job hasn't actually been totally done with this? no. well, at least it's a start and each time i tested the device, it did come up with consistent results. a new year, a new me. # let's go... # so around the suit are various sensors
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that are analysing my motion, and the idea is that they will be able to tell me if i'm using the correct posture or not when doing various exercises. so if i am not doing g it gives me e u . jwershal-lw ,, .. ,, z. z. , "”” ’. """"f§ which allows its accompanying app to suitably berate me. hip position too high. arm angle too deep. you have to wirelessly charge it up, but it is machine washable. thank goodness. well, there's something we can't unsee. right, number four. self—driving cars, and we are nowhere near having fully—autonomous cars on the road yet, but here is a demo where i can use an app to make a fairly autonomous car reverse out of its parking space and drive to a preprogrammed pick—up spot. you have to have driven the route
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first so it can learn it, but it can deviate from the route enough to avoid hitting things or people. there is loads of self driving car tech here at ces, but there are other exciting things going on in car, too. dave lee is one of them, here he is. so audi thinks it has come up with an idea to keep us more entertained while we are travelling in the back of a car. i'm going to check it out. how are we doing? all right, enjoy the ride. i'm ready. this vr system was made in collaboration with disney, and it monitors data from the car's actual movements. so when i pull away, i really feel it because the car is moving. what we have created basically is completely new category of content because it is the first time that it is something that works best in the car. i'm shooting in the game, i am looking around. obviously the movement is determined by where the car is moving, so i don't feel in control
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of where i'm going, but it does make it feel very physical. but i don't know. something about the combination of virtual reality and whizzing around a racetrack didn't feel too good. it said it wouldn't make me nauseous. that was a lie. but it's ok because on the ces show floor i found a different approach. this is a effort by intel and warner brothers to imagine how we might entertain ourselves when cars are self driving. hello, sir. here we go. the monitor is coming up in a very, you know, dramatic fashion. this is very futuristic. yes. there's also this safety tablet which displays data on what is happening around the car, back in the real world. that was dave in a car, now how are we doing? five down. plenty more to go but we are going
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to stop counting for a few minutes to bring you some of the big announcements from ces this year. this place is full of weird and wonderful stuff. you can track your off their wares but usually the big three are notably absent. unveiled here is the google assistant‘s new interpreter mode. qk.,,go.ogle,- , , , je parle un petit peu de francais. first—time!
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i will speak to myself. ok, maybe it doesn't get it every, time, but it is pretty slick. merci beaucoup, au revoir. thank you very much, goodbye. amazon is showing off its echo auto, making alexa available to most cars. meanwhile, apple may not be here, but it is still making some noise. we are thrilled to share a true first. samsung customers in over 100 countries will be able to enjoy itunes movies and tv shows. this itunes app tie—up is unique to samsung, but other manufacturers are also getting something apple, and that is airplay, which would be built into some lg, sony and vizio tvs. and as usual, the stands are full of bright tv. samsung is showing off a micro led display
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which delivers extra high colour definition. the screen is made up of many tiny micro leds tightly grouped together which can light up independently. this feature allows for very high—contrast and extra—bright images, and it is modular so extra bits can be added to change its size and make for different viewing experiences. here is a 200—inch one. most tvs on show here are 8k, but most of the content we have isn't, and this is where ai comes to the rescue. manufacturers are building artificial intelligence into tv sets to up—res the content they receive. and it's all about al in these halls this year. beyond voice activation for everything, even your toilet, ai is featuring in many smart devices. and i no longer need to worry
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how much energy my smart devices are using, because i found a treadmill that will harness the power of my work—out. i mightjust need to go a little bit faster. that was lara, and now time to restart the clock, and it turns out nick is not the only one who has been to the gym recently. i'm facing up to a very unusual opponent. truth be known, i'm not a skilled boxer — more into unboxing, if you know what i mean. but although the bot boxer here is successfully dodging most of myjabs, it is letting me land the occasional hit. its infrared sensors keep track of me, and its reaction times can be set to match the skill of the opponent, along with how tired it gets over time and how many mistakes it makes, to give one a fighting chance.
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52. now at the moment for some reason they have got they say no human can actually punch fast enough. all right, let's get a professional in here. step back. yeah, shut up. this is alex thiel, national middleweight champion and marginally better than me. he's playing the bot boxerinknackoutmsdg. ' ” and he's doing all right. 53 $5 34511534”; emil; '% george foreman, muhammad ali, mike tyson
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ifiififéséézééfl ¥§;5;;;: ,, e we've asked him to try out something that is on show at ces for the first time, m a massive problem in boxing and inspollgeaeasllys concussion. eyesync uses a modified vr headset to track how accurately alex's eyes can follow moving points. same deal, follow those target positions. the system can then tell whether there may be an underlying brain injury to be concerned about. here the results show that alex's left brain responds better than his right, nothing to worry about at the moment, but something which can be worked on. it's in use already by the golden state warriors basketball team here in the us, and eyesync‘s creators say the system could also help look for early signs of dementia. meanwhile, nick has met a different alex who has created something to prevent
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injuries in the first place. not in boxing, but in cycling. today we know the main areas impacted during an accident are the head, the thorax and the neck. so this is why we decided to develop this where it is able to protect the thorax, the neck and the back. ok, let's put it to the test. ouch. let's see that in instant replay. you all right? yeah. embedded sensors follow the rider's motion, so when the speed or angle doesn't add up, it inflates in one tenth of a second, cushioning impact. now, does this act
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as a flotation device? what do you mean? thank you. health tech is always big at the show but this year there are a few companies offering medication—free pain relief. hypno vr is one with what they describe as medical hypnosis, although the pain i was subjected to testing it was pretty minor. that didn't really hurt, but i'm not sure how much it would have hurt if i doesn't have these on. there's no doubt that was relaxing. the idea is that some procedures could possibly be done with local anaesthetic instead of general anaesthetic, if people were feeling calm enough. it's hard for me to judge, because obviously all i had to do was lie here, nothing was being done to me apart from somebody pinching my hand. thanks for that! but hey, i feel relaxed. how clean is your drinking water? well, here we have six cups of america's finest filter water,
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and if i get the lishtot testdrop pro and move it slowly towards this plastic cup, it gives me a blue light which tells me it's ok to drink. the accompanying app gives me a chance of contamination of 40%. but if i do this to each of the other cups, you can see that one is clean as well. what it is actually doing is measuring the differences in the electric field for water that's contaminated and not contaminated. now, what we haven't told it is this last cup of filtered water has been spat in by the boss. and look. red light. the app says the chance of contamination is 90%. feels a bit like witchcraft, doesn't it? but it does seem to work. 0k, next up it's chris fox who has been out in the sun, cheers. this is no ordinary suncream spray — my body and the droplets have been
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electrically charged to give me a flawless coating. here i am putting on suncream by hand in front of a uv camera. the suncream absorbs uv light so it shows up black here and makes it easy to see if i have missed a bit. could electrically charged spray offer better protection? so here's how it works. 0n the spray bottle there are two metal pads, and when you squeeze them, it puts an electric charge into your body. the droplets it sprays are attracted to your skin. it is a bit like when your hair is attracted to a balloon with static electricity. the company that has made this is called wagner. they're a german company known for their industrial sprayers so they are more used to coating car parts. the prototype sprays factor 6 and factor 10 suncream, so it doesn't look as dark on camera, but when i pull back my top i was really surprised, it did give me a smooth coating of suncream. there are still a few problems to iron out with the prototype.
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one of them is that after using it, if you touch anyone, you give them quite a nasty static shock, and the second one is you are not really supposed to use it on your face. the company did warn me that those statically—charged particles will stick everywhere on your skin. they find their way up your nose, they go into your ears, the find their way into your eyes, even if you have got your eyes closed. now it's notjust for suncream. the company also plans to offer things like body oil. you can appreciate the applications where this might be useful, as with the suncream, or perhaps with a spray tan. where getting an even coating is absolutely crucial. there has been a lot of talk about sustainability this year, and as soon as they are fully powered, it will automatically switch itself off.
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not only does this make things safer, but it will also mean that you should use less electricity. the one right here is the european version, so it looks a little bit messy with all of the adapters we have attached, but later this year, there will be versions released for the rest of the world. whilst right now the main use of this may be for laptops or for phones the company hopes that in the future people are going to be using it for electric bikes or cars. 0r there is this smart home switch, which once it is set up, doesn't need any leads or any recharging, and with the touch of a button it can operate your sonos or your phillips hue lighting. this has energy harvesting technology which claims to provide enough power byjust doing this to make it work. but for those who are more interested in convenience, this infrared charging transmitter is hoping to help. the light signal is transmitted to the wide charge receivers that can either be in the form of plug—in chargers or actually embedded in the company's home devices.
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but whilst this kind of charging may prove less energy—efficient, the company does hope it will be used as part of an ecosystem which makes it simple to turn this off whenever it is not in use. ok, that is sustainability. item 12 of 20 done. right, let's rattle through some more. now, if you do come to ces, don't forget to check out eureka park. this is where all the new, new ideas are being formed, including this, a fully customisable keyboard. 5554524 1}. 25.5..ié'1—121—ii; 5:2}..- _ this one is on the japanese external trade stand. in the french area, you can have a drink and a snack from the butler bots known as the fresh geoffrey of france. that's the fresh geoffrey of france.
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this is a desktop dishwasher. you don't need to plumb it in, just fill it up with a gallon of water, hit the button on the remote control, bosh, does the dishes. the bumpy roof looks cool, but it also disperses the water for a more even clean. ’ "j" t if; ”j; t122§ away from the show floor, i'm going subzero to test out a nifty new wearable. better crack that up to 11. this is the embr wave wristband and acts like your own personal
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air—conditioner unit but instead of air it uses a thermo—electric module acting as a heater. it sends you regular pulses of heat to apparently change your body temperature, up to five degrees. i certainly need it in this baltic environment. ok, so it's not really suitable for such harsh conditions. it is intended more for the sudden temperature changes during the morning commute or to improve your individual temperature in communal areas. heaven forbid you should open a window or put on more clobber. it may be warming up my wrist but my toes are absolutely freezing. time to get a little warmer, me thinks. getting a bit too hot now. that's better. the show floor can get really exhausting. i think i need a lie down. wow, that feels a bit strange. there is a motor inside moving it from side to side,
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and actually this was the creation of someone who had been on a cruise and enjoyed the rocking movement so much they wanted to recreate it, and then hopefully you'll sleep like a baby. it's weird. it feels awkward when i close my eyes. it feels better to have my eyes open, which is no use whatsoever for sleeping. maybe the bigger problem right now is that it is a bit noisy to sleep round here, but luckily i have got these, some active noise cancellation earbuds which are specifically for sleeping. so you put them in like this. the microphone in them will pick up and will create some anti—noise so it feels like = you can't hear anything in them as it drowns out the other sound. now, of course i can still hear there's something going on here because this is a very loud environment. 0bviously no—one is going to sleep in a noise like this. but it is definitely quieter.
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sound feels a lot flatter. but the question is, can you get used to sleeping with these in your ears, and are they going to stay in? let's have a little fidget around and see. and a huge round of applause for lara with number 19. the big clappers here make it 20. we've done it and that's worth a big hand, too. these things are from japan, enough said. and that is ces 2019 all wrapped up, 20 things in 19 minutes. these are the only things you need to bother about in the next year. unless i'm wrong, in which case we'll see you next week. hello.
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0ur weather is taking on an increasingly wintry flavour through the coming days. we're moving into arctic air. the isobars are lining up from north to south, following this weather front south. it will clear southern counties of the uk through the day today. today's certainly a cold day for all of us. should be some decent sunshine around, but there will also be some wintry showers. a frosty start pretty much across the board, with a risk of ice, especially across the northern half of the uk. here's the weather front first thing. it will push its way into east anglia and the south—east during the morning rush hour. further north, clearer skies. remember that ice, but also the additional complication of some snow showers pushing into scotland, some pushing into eastern coastal counties of england too. snow possible to sea level in scotland, a couple of centimetres across the mountains, perhaps 5—8 centimetres. here, we are looking at a wintry mix, but a covering i think possible across the hills.
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mostly rain or sleet, though, as that system finally tucks into the continent by lunchtime. the showers following on from the north though, in the arctic air, will be wintry, and we will see further showers particularly for eastern coastal counties through the afternoon. they'll tend to thin out across scotland. a cold afternoon, even in the sunshine. and then, through the evening and overnight into friday, a widespread frost will develop. thursday night likely to be our coldest night of the week. you may have noticed, though, towards the west there was a frontal system trying to approach. now, obviously a frontal system bumping into cold air has the potential to turn wintry. that little bit of cloud mayjust bolster the temperatures briefly for the likes of plymouth and belfast. but as the system pushes into the cold air, for northern ireland, we could see a difficult mixture of rain, sleet and snow during the early part of friday. the weather system looks like it will perhaps bring some more significant snow for scotland for a time.
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further south, i think it will be perhaps snow initially, particularly across the hills and the mountains, but turning increasingly back to rain as the system pushes in, because we are bringing in a slightly southerly air stream, so some slightly milder air. but there is a lot of uncertainty in this element of the forecast, and if you are travelling on friday, it will be worth getting your latest update. 0n into the weekend, our story remains chilly, the temperatures perhaps coming up a couple of degrees on the figures we'll see through the end of the week. but i think there'll be a lot of cloud around on saturday. maybe some sunny spells on sunday, but overall, the story for the coming days will definitely be a rather wintry one. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: the british government survives a vote
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