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we loved this from match of the day last night — as gary lineker teased ian wright over the rumours he's about to head to the jungle, for i'm a celebrity, get me out of here. good night. city leave it late and wright is off to eat leaves. i looking forward to much that one or are you off? no, i will be watching that one. i will be watching it. norwich had come out of thejungle watching it. norwich had come out of the jungle that has the championship. it must be happy camp, i would have thought. annie, frank and his young team are passing all the trials at the moment. —— i mean, frank and his young team. hejust got it, eventually!
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an island shaped like a leaf at the meeting point of four seas. between the 1960s 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,
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led by a company you have probably never heard of — tsmc. it is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips 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.
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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. 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
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5—nanometre or 7—nanometre is, but i think people very often say if you look 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,
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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. 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
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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. on a slightly safer note, the korean tech giant has teased a flip phone — how very early naughties 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,
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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 11 pro, it said it would be better
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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 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.
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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. 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 in just 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,
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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. 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. good evening. it has been a pretty u nsettled good evening. it has been a pretty unsettled start in november so far. we've had a fair bit of rain in some strong winds around too. we still have low pressure weather has over the next 2a hours or so and it has a
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slow moving area of low pressure weather showers rotating around it. through this evening and tonight, heavy showers initially in the south—west, pushing northwards of course england and some rumble of thunder with some of the showers too. it should be frost—free with temperatures around five to 10 celsius. tomorrow, eastern scotland kids have a persistent rain. there could be some flooding issues here. and most of the show so there because parts of the southern and eastern england. sometimes sunshine for northern ireland, central parts of england and temperatures ten to i3 celsius. chester, they went down toa i3 celsius. chester, they went down to a more northerly direction, think starting to turn a little bit colder, especially in the north. 0ne of two showers pays england took amateurs seven to 13 celsius. goodbye for now.
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this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8: the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he is not going to stand as a candidate in the general election. do i find a seat, try and get myself into parliament, or do i serve the cause better, traversing the length and breadth of the united kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? i've decided that the latter course is the right one. the government confirms the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives three years ago will end next april. income tax will rise for the top 5% of earners and there'll be increases to corporation tax under a labour government, according to shadow chancellor john mcdonnell. 33 people have been injured in a coach crash in france. ii of them are british. delhi's toxic smog forces airports to cancel flights.
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