tv The Film Review BBC News November 2, 2019 11:45pm-12:01am GMT
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yes, monet for nothing! fake art. yes, monet for nothing! can we end on that? boom boom! these are paintings that prince charles has a loan from james stunt, allegedly worth millions of pounds but apparently, they were drawn or painted by some american fraudster by the name of tony tetra, who claims that he did them and that they are not manet boro, picassos and delis after all. they are not manet boro, picassos and dalis after all. why is this a headline? it is just and dalis after all. why is this a headline? it isjust a ridiculous, fun story. he has not paid for them because you know, they are on loan. no money has passed. prince charles has got lots of fake paintings on the walls of his various houses and thatis the walls of his various houses and that is a funny story. but it is just one of them. it speaks a lot about the forger‘s skill, doesn't it? yes. i don't understand why it is even here. isjust good fun. but
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we have not found steve. no, he is missing, have you seen him recently? he is under the desk, just kick him. kicking back with steve. and he speaks several languages. thank you for joining speaks several languages. thank you forjoining us. it's been a pleasure. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, martin and bonnie. can you see that? and steve. you are with steve! plenty more coming up on bbc news but now, it is time for click. good night.
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taiwan. an island shaped like a leaf at the meeting point of four seas. between the 19605 and the 1990s, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. huge tech firms grew, becoming household names — asus, htc, acer. at the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of - tsmc. it is the one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips
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inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11. it is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. and these chips were only made possible thanks to the discovery of semiconductors. why are semiconductors important or interesting? because it changes your life. with factories, or ‘fabs' as they are known across the globe, the largest is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we could go into the fab, there was quite a process to undergo. i have to take my shoes off on the carpet. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands, and wear this to keep the dust out. cute. but it is time for an air shower.
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weird. i feel like i'm in the tumble dryer. the manufacture of wafers has to be extremely precise. they cannot tolerate any particles that may fall onto the wafer and damage the chips. so finally, we were allowed in the factory and there was a good reason for all that faff. the speed of these chips relies on how many transistors you can cram into a tiny space. and when i am talking tiny, i am talking nanometres. so even specks of dust would matter. i don't really know how to describe how fine that 5—nanometre or 7—nanometre is, but i think people very often say if you look
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at 28 nanometres, it was like ioooth the diameter of a human hair. in this fully automated factory, the lights are kept yellow to protect the product, and the machinery is moving all around. but there are quite a few things in here we're not allowed to film because this is seriously cutting—edge technology, so it needs to remain pretty secret. we have to protect our customers' information. and so basically, we do not allow cameras to freely roam inside ourfabs because inevitably, they may pick up customer information. between all the automated devices in this facility, they travel 400,000 kilometres a day. to put that into context, that is ten times around earth. all of this is about the concept of keeping up with moore's law, as predicted by intel engineer gordon moore in the ‘60s.
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it refers to the doubling of transistors on a chip every two years, whilst the cost is halved. a concept increasingly hard to keep up with, despite us expecting a lot more from our ever—connected lives. the next driver is what we call "ubiquitous computing". it is computation everywhere at any time. all the devices are connected. billions and billions of etched devices that are smart, that can compute at any time, and communicate and link and that will be the future enabled by semiconductors. welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a device dispatched by samsung to send selfies to space came back to earth with a thud, crash—landing in a back garden in michigan, usa. thankfully, nobody was injured.
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on a slightly safer note, the korean tech giant has teased a flip phone — how very early noughties of them! — with a foldable screen. let's hope this one‘s more successful than its last attempt at a folding phone. twitter has banned all political advertising worldwide on its platform, saying that the reach of such messages should be "earned, not bought". the move puts pressure on rival social media outfit facebook, which recently ruled out banning political ads. in other facebook news, the social network has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine issued by the uk data protection watchdog over the cambridge analytica scandal, ending a year's worth of legal wrangling over the issue. as part of the agreement, facebook has made no admission of liability. facebook subsidiary whatsapp is suing the nso group, an israeli surveillance company, alleging it created various whatsapp accounts and caused malicious code to be transmitted by its servers to roughly 1,400 mobile devices for the purposes of spying. the nso group said it disputed the allegations
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and would vigorously fight them. and finally, an american company has developed a pair of smart glasses designed to improve concentration and prevent distraction. narbis claims sensors in the smart specs measure the wearer's brain activity. if they decide the wearer is not playing attention, the glasses darken, preventing them from seeing the distraction. the glasses will cost $690 when they launch in december. we have come out in central london to try three of the latest smartphone cameras to see how they cope with low light. the huawei mate 30 pro, iphone 11 pro and google pixel 4 all boast that they take impressive shots at night, but will any leave the competition in the dark? i will also take some photos with the iphone 7 plus from 2016, to give us an idea of how much phone cameras have improved. my first stop is this
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bridge in london. we're gonna capture a cityscape at night, starting with huawei mate 30 pro. and huawei says its phone takes really good pictures at night because the camera sensor in here is 125% bigger than the one in the iphone 11 pro max, so it lets in more light. so, how did they stack up? all three of the new phones took sharp, bright photos of the skyline at night. the mate 30 pro picture looked slightly more crisp, but the colours were less saturated. the iphone 11 pro photo seemed more vibrant, but not quite as sharp, while the pixel 4 seemed to have a nicer colour balance with a blue—ish sky, rather than the orange tint that we saw in the others. but, for me, there was no clear winner here. all of them took nice photos. so my next stop is the embankment. i've come to have my picture taken with the london eye, and i've got soila here using the google pixel 4 first. google says its special sauce is computational photography. so it's going to take a string
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of photos and stitch them all together and use machine learning to clean up any noise or artefacts, so i have to hold still. all three of the new phones took a brighter photo than the old iphone 7 plus. once again, the mate 30 pro seemed to take the sharpest photo. if you look at my face, it's in focus, and it also picked out a lot of detail on myjumper. the pixel 4 photo was pretty sharp, too, and i felt the colour balance was more flattering. i'd be probably happy to post this one on my instagram. but in this location, i think the iphone 11 pro struggled. it didn't pick out much detail in myjumper and the coloursjust looked weird, no matter how many times we took the shot. when apple introduced the iphone i! pro, it said it would be better at taking photos in dimly lit bars, and it does not get more dim than this — this is gordon's wine bar in london, mainly lit by candles, so let's see how the phones manage. and the difference with the iphone
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11 pro is that i don't have to activate night mode. it does that automatically when it detects it's dark. and it is telling me to hold still while it stitches together several photos, just like the pixel 4, though apple calls this "deep fusion." all three new phones took a picture that would not have been possible on a phone a few years ago. just like the previous shots, the mate 30 pro photo came out brighter overall, and sharper. and it's hard to believe this was taken in candlelight. once again, the pixel 4 had a more flattering colour balance and there was less detail on the iphone 11 pro shot, which you can see if you zoom in on soila's hair. so this might be the biggest challenge for the phones yet. we're in stjames' park. it's very dark, there's no lights here, so will the cameras be able to pick up any photos at all, and will we get robbed for waving around a few grand worth of cameras? let's find out.
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that's — looks just like it's daytime! the fact that any of these phones took a clear shot in near—darkness is impressive. if you zoom in, you can tell that none of them are crystal clear, but that's probably not the point here. the new phones all took snaps in the dead of night that look like they were taken during the day. it's pretty impressive how much phone cameras have improved injust a few years, thanks to new hardware and a lot of heavy lifting by the software. now, i found some of those night mode shots for me looked a little bit artificial and, in some cases, the phones took, in my opinion, nicer shotsjust in the regular camera mode. the real test was that near—darkness shot taken in stjames' park. that was truly impressive. but i wonder how useful that will be for a majority of people, and whether people will really want to take lots of pictures in near complete darkness remains to be seen. that's it for the short version of click.
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the full—length programme can be found on the bbc iplayer. throughout the week, you can keep track of the team on facebook, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick, as usual. thanks for watching. hello. thankfully, sunday is not looking stormy. that said, it will still be blustery around northern scotla nd still be blustery around northern scotland and some of the coast of south—west england, and later in the day, the wind will start to pick up once again. there will be some sunshine around in parts of wales and southern england, the midlands into east anglia later. northern ireland and south—west scotland. a lot of cloud across northern england giving rain at times and through
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eastern parts of scotland. a spell of rain running up toward south—west england and south wales later in the day. 10—14 celsius at the top ten. sunday into monday morning, low pressure makes another push it is with this area of rain including some heavier bus heading further north. more rain, quite heavy, running into parts of eastern scotla nd running into parts of eastern scotland as well. temperature is not going down too far. into monday, low pressure is in charge. across southern parts, some sunshine but the chance of catching a heavy and may be thundery showers. the northern england, northern ireland and scotland, a fair amount of cloud and scotland, a fair amount of cloud and you could well see some rain for and you could well see some rain for a time. goodbye.
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