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in march and has already earned hundreds of thousands of pounds. but like most teenagers, what coco wants is pop. my mother posted me on instagram and i was screaming. i hope beyonce saw that! and told her daughter about me! i would love to take her to a concert! she's caught the eye of the woman who has dominated women's tennis for the past two decades. i think she's doing everything great. i'm a big fan, actually. i am so excited for her. i love her family. gosh... ijust could not feel more pride. she'll follow serena on courti tomorrow and this time it's the former world number one, simona halep, in herway. but who's to say the fairytale can't continue?
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we will find out if she can make the quarterfinals tomorrow. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. a warm welcome to click. welcome to click. welcome to click, i am spencer kelly. finally we have reached a very special milestone. we have been on air every week
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of every year, without a break, since we launched in the year 2000, which means this week you are watching season 1, episode 1000. and to celebrate, we are making a world first. doing new things is in our dna. i am floating on air. which is why we don't just show you the tech, we use the tech to push the boundaries of what's possible on tv. here is the team. it is marc on camera one and two, simon on camera three and four, jen on five, nima on six and seven, ben on eight and this is thalia on nine. this was the world's first full tv programme to be filmed and edited only on mobile devices. fyi, it was a nightmare.
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this week's click has been filmed entirely in 360 degrees. this was another world first, where we reinvented how tv was made, for an audience that could look in any direction at any time. and this week, for click 1000, we have really gone for it. do i explore the cave, or do i look behind the tree? i'll explore the cave. so turn to page 8a. this is how i spent a lot of my childhood, reading books where i could choose my own adventure, where at every point, i got to decide what happened next, and every time i read it, the story changed. i absolutely loved them. not only was i in a different world,
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but because i was in charge of the story, that story came to life. it felt so real. come on then, spen. so, after choose your own adventure books, came computer adventure games, first with text, and then with amazing graphics. but both would let me explore vast worlds, bigger than any book. the problem is tv doesn't let us do that. it tells one story, it makes one set of choices, and we just sit back and watch. until now. i demand freedom! imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even
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how much time you had. if you go online at the address that's on—screen now, you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. you get to choose which tech stories you hear about, and in how much detail. as you watch, you'll be given options to dive deeper, or maybe to look at things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip one entirely. the technology used to make this possible is known as object based media, or 0bm, and it could be the future of how we watch video content. broadcasters have been developing the tech for years now. bbc r&d has explored the concept with various online tutorials. the step by step nature of 0bm is particularly useful there. netflix has had a dabble with its puss in boots, and more recently, with charlie brooker‘s interactive bandersnatch. and now, premiering the bbc‘s first ever 0bm tv show is us. to say it's been a tricky,
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brain—melting minefield would be an understatement. it's a little bit like trying to pick up ants from space using tweezers with a blindfold on. these are all the plans that we've made to figure out how we're going to structure this episode. doing 0bm is really different because you have to think of the story in different ways, because people might have seen other bits of the story, they might have chosen different path through the story. i have been told to create 700 million versions. it has taken more brainpower than any episode i have ever worked on, and more teamwork, to get the thing out there. trust me, we're not talking to each other the moment. what does that stand for? wizard. but we couldn't have done it without r&d‘s otherworldly expertise. matthew and his team have been devising an 0bm strategy for the last few years.
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a couple of years ago we decided we wanted to try and transfer this capability to create this stuff. we were busy engineering it, but we didn't have any tools. so we decided to build a story kit, essentially. custom—made software can handle hundreds of pieces of content, like video, audio and text, and put them together on the fly, as viewers make their choices. so it's a tool that is aimed at producers who have no hot software development skills, so the whole idea was to allow these people to then easily use an interface like a drag—and—drop interface like story former, to create those experiences. all in all, we think we have 148 different chunks of video, which to my mind makes about a gazillion different paths through the content. also tons of footage, and we've used up every hard drive that we have. i suppose it's been keeping me up at night, thinking are we going to get it finished in time?
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it really has been a challenging process. there's been times when i had to dojust like... but we think, we really think, it's been worth it. putting you in the driving seat will mean, hopefully, you at home can enjoy the show more than ever before more. at the core of being able to give you all these choices is the idea of branching narratives, possible options that lead onto the next bit, or reroute you to a park where the story can flow from there. to get advice on how to create a multiple—choice click, i went to create one of the creators of the fighting fantasy books i grew up with, ian livingstone. it involves writing multiple storylines at once. and how i used to do it was create a map, on which i kept a record of all the encounters as you went through the adventure. it's giving you a choice like do you want to turn left or right, which is a simple choice, or do you want to try and tiptoe past the sleeping goblin
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or attack him with your sword. and the choices are quite varied. so when i'm writing i have to keep a record of where the reader would go. so if you make this choice, i need to make sure that they can actually get out of there, and then these are all the encounters. they find gold, they find treasure, they find magical items. can i show you our version of an adventure map? this is the layout of this actual interview, which is multichoice. what do you think? minimalist. not too many options, so we should be done in less than four hours. because it can take you days to get through a fighting fantasy game book. good luck on your adventure. that was ian livingstone talking to one of his biggest fanboys. now, currently, normaltv doesn't allow us to show you a fully interactive programme, so to give you a feel of what click 0bm will be like when you watch it online, we've added a dash of it to this week's tech news. you will see some options
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pop up on screen. you won't be able to click them, we will do that for you. but it should give you an idea of what to expect. here is lara. hello and welcome to the week in tech. this week, the church of england issued its first guidelines for social media users. its release came the same time as the archbishop of canterbury streamed his own live video. nearly a decade ago, alphabet, the company that owns google, announced its balloon spin out, loon. this promised floating masts which would deliver ag services to the world's most remote places. it is now planning to launch its own trial with african telecom. loon‘s balloons are each the size of a tennis court, but they need to be as they are filled with enough helium to keep them afloat while carrying solar
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powered networking gear. this robot bear is quite aptly called huggable. the new trial suggests it could help poorly children feel better in hospital. more than 50 sick kids took part in the study with mit media lab, northeastern university and boston children's hospital. the hi—tech toy not only brought out more smiles, but also got the kids out of bed to be more active too. huggable is far from the only cute robot on the block, though. in europe, this little robot even goes to school for sick children. this means they can virtually attend classes and play with their friends. and finally, an american artist has built robotic arms to let you poke, inflate and generally play around with famous paintings. neil mendoza's mechanical
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masterpieces is displayed at the children's museum of pittsburgh. that's it. that is the short version of click but check out the long version this week. and our special interactive version. the machine keeps on turning next week to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landings. we will bring you click 1001, a space odyssey. until then, on behalf of everyone who has worked on this programme and there have been many, thank you very much, thank you for watching and taking part and we will see you soon.
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it's a pleasant weekend out there for most. it turned a little cloudy in one or two areas but, on the whole, not too bad. this is what it looks like through the evening. lots of clear weather, which means temperatures will tumble away in eastern scotland and north—east england, where it could be chilly outside of the towns. these are the city centre temperatures. clouds tomorrow will increase here from the west. this weather front is approaching northern ireland later in the morning and into the afternoon and there could be some rain around belfast but the vast majority of the uk should be bright. stunning weather along the south coast and the north sea counties. 2a celsius in cardiff is the best temperature. upper teens across central scotland. tuesday, the northern half
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of the uk will be cloudy. some rain around, the south will turn a little bit more cloudy as well. temperatures quite warm in the south.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm... the government launches an inquiry into leaked emails from the uk ambassador in washington describing president trump's administration as "inept", "insecure" and "incompetent". it is obviously very disappointing that this correspondence has come out into the open but it is also important to say that it is the job of ambassadors to give frank personal opinions about what is happening in the countries they serve. exit polls suggest greece has elected a new centre right government, ousting the leftist syriza party, in a snap election. jubilation for the united states, who have won the women's world cup with a 2—0 victory

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