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we just have to happen. we just have to fight for eachinch happen. we just have to fight for each inch of ground in that game. if we do that, we are difficult to play, if we are different to play, we have a chance to win. that's it. hibernian are into the semi finals of the scottish cup after a beating inverness caledonian thistle in a seven—goal thriller last night. the visitors had pulled a goal back to make it 3—1, before stephane omeonga scored a fourth for hibs. it finished 5—2. rangers play hearts this evening and holders celtic take on stjohnstone tomorrow. britain's laura kenny says she was determined not to give up after crashing at the track cycling world championships. kenny — seen here in white in the middle of your screen — was taking part in the opening race.. she was one of five riders to crash, with just over a lap to go. she was able to walk off the track with a cut near her right eye. she had to have stitches and a concussion check but was allowed to carry on. the two—time olympic and world onmium champion finished 12th. kenny broke her shoulder
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in the omnium at the world cup in canada only last month, and says she has to carry on, for her son, albie. when i came down, i knew straightaway that my show there was at least 0k. straightaway that my show there was at least ok. that was all i was worried about. then all the blood started gushing from my face, and i was like my own now, what else have i done? was like my own now, what else have idone? i was like my own now, what else have i done? i came to race, i'm glad that i carried on. i need to do the races at this level, it was the last timei races at this level, it was the last time i will get to that before the olympics. i thought that it didn't matter that i don't have a medal, i just need to get back onto the bike rice. in six months' time, i would just be nervous again. danish cyclist michael morkov has been cleared to compete in berlin after 3a hours in isolation, after suspisions that he might have contracted coronavirus. morkov was taking part in the uae tour before it was cancelled due to two suspected cases of coronavirus. second—placed sale have moved to within four points of leaders exeter, with a win over gloucester. the gloucester players paid tribute to caroline flack during the match. the team ran out with the words
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"be kind" printed across the back of their shirts, as part of the club's campaign to raise mental health awareness. gloucester fly half, danny cipriani, who dated flack, has spoken about his own troubles, in the wake of the death of the love island host, who took her own life earlier this month. heather watson is one win away from her first wta title in almost four years after reaching the mexican open final. she won in straight sets against china's wang xiyu. watson, the british number two, has not won a singles tournament since march 2016. if she wins later today she will break into the top 50 world rankings for the first time since that win. that's all the but for now. now on bbc news, it is time for click. this week: how can this fit in here? and is the new folding huawei up to scratch? and it's my entry for eurovision.
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heart rate, temperature, steps, diet, these days we can track all of our vitals. all of this data can help us to understand and tweak our lifestyles, but it's also moved way beyond the basics, allowing smart phone connected devices to monitor conditions like asthma or diabetes from home. lara lewington has been to meet someone who's using something a little bit more advanced a smartwatch to monitor his health. he's had a tiny computer inserted into his heart.
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around 26 million people worldwide are suffering from heart failure, where the heart is struggling to pump blood around the body. for some time now technology has been used to keep track of heart conditions. so i've come here to hammersmith hospital, where an innovative procedure is being carried out. 71—year—old retiree andrew lives with heart failure, requiring precise medication to keep him well. what's stopping you, it is breathlessness or is a pain in the chest? well, it's breathlessness. but it's not like a fit person's breathlessness. i was having a monthly appointment with consultants. and, of course, with walking is always a problem, because wards a quite a long way apart. i can walk 15 yards and then i have to pause and gather breath. today, though, andrew's having
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a tiny microcomputer inserted into his heart. what we want to offer you is a device that will sitjust on here that's able to monitor the pressure in the left atrium. it will give doctors access to continuous data so any changes to his condition could trigger an alert. getting prior warning would keep me out of hospital and would mean i could be treated at home. this is the second procedure of its kind in the uk. up until now we've never been able to get this data in a patient who's not in an operating theatre with a catheter positioned in the heart. so this is, potentially, a major step forward. it means we can adjust the medication in the early stage, which reduces symptoms and, critically, reduces admissions to hospital. the device is threaded through the veins into the heart. once in place, its wings will open, securing a sensor
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inside the left atrium. and the really cutting—edge bit — a microcomputer in the right. to reduce the size of the implant, we developed a proprietary technology that enabled digital transmission of the data without a battery. it charges a bit like a phone with a wireless charger. the belt powers the device as well as sucking the data from it so it can be sent to the cloud. from there, ai algorithms interpret the readings to flag if a doctor needs to take action. the more data we will gather throughout the time, the better our ai—based system will be. finally, it's time for andrew
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to go into surgery. doctors use ultrasound probes and x—ray vision to see inside his body. equipment is fed through his veins and a central wall in andrew's heart is pierced so the device can be put in place. this is usually the riskiest part of the procedure. the device is now going into the heart. fortunately for andrew, all goes to plan, as this is the only way to get data directly from the left atrium. the device has now been released from the catheter and is sitting on the septum. you can see the two sides of the umbrella of the device are attached to either side of the septum to secure it there. the procedure's gone very nicely. it's a perfect result. a month after the operation, we met to look at the data that had been collected and how useful it seemed.
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these look like perfect traces, like the traces we would see if we had an invasive catheter at the time of a procedure. so this is very, very good quality data. what does this mean for the data that you're looking at long—term? we will be able to see changes within the pressure in andrew's heart. and this is likely to be before he develops symptoms, so we can adjust his medication to try to prevent worsening of his symptoms. and that way we will be able to keep andrew as he is now, nice and stable. how has this changed your life? emotionally it has. in that i can see a future now. i felt i'd just been put in a filing cabinet, just waiting for something nasty to happen. but now there's possibilities of further treatment. what would you say to anybody else in a similar situation to you about the trial what you've experienced so far? consider it. i think it will improve their life.
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hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week concerns over coronavirus wiped more than $238 billion off the stock value from the five biggest us tech firms. the uk broadcasting regulator ofcom found that radiation levels of 5g are well within health and safety limits and a us enquiry found that the death of a tesla driver, while his car was in self—driving mode, was caused by the driver's over—reliance on the autopilot system. in ‘is that really necessary‘ robot news, how about searching for a book with an autonomous librarian? the around bee is a service bot that guides you to books you're looking for. and, if you're suffering from carrying just a few too many, will carry them for you. if you've ever thought a robot could do with a softer touch, a jellyfish would probably agree. this silicon—fingered robot helps pick up jellyfish and other deep sea
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creatures without accidentally squishing or harming them. the handy soft bot also seems to cause less stress to the animals. and, finally, researchers at japan's osaka university have developed a robot that can feel, sense, and express pain. but, for someone unthinkable reason, they've made it look like a child. the disembodied robot is programmed to smile, grimace, and wince. it's hoped that teaching it to recognise pain will help the artificial intelligence learn empathy and so better care for humans. let's just hope it doesn't learn to feel revenge. the end of february every year is a big time for us. having painstakingly planned for months and fought thousands of other journalists for access to the big stories, we head to barcelona for the mobile world congress. it's where the big companies launch their big new phones
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and the small companies show off clever new innovations that may one day change the world. only this year, as you may know, mwc is off. cancelled because of concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. it's proved a nightmare for the telecoms industry but our chris fox, who was due to cover it, going to get a week off. however, not everyone has cancelled. some companies have gone to barcelona anyway. so i've got a bit of news for chris. the cancellation of mwc has been nothing short of a nightmare, especially for me, i couldn't cancel my flights at such short notice and i'd been left stranded here in barcelona with no work to do. it turns out huawei hasn't cancelled its flights either and are still doing a press conference — right now. with the venue already booked
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and huawei executive richard yu already in town, the company decided to do its launch event anyway. only this time it was pre—recorded a day early and played out on the big screen. the big reveal was the follow—up to its first folding phone. and here it is. the folding huawei mate xs. if i open the instagram here, there's some pictures of dogs, and if i open the phone out, the pictures expand to fill the view. one thing i can't show you is google maps, because the phone still doesn't have those google apps. in fact, huawei's now added its own app gallery which it says will be a competitor to the google play app store. snapchat, tiktok, they are on there, the sun newspaper is on there, and bbc news, but some big ones are missing, of course. now, one of the concerns with folding phones as that displays might be easily damaged because they're flexible. now, huawei says since the original mate x it has made
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the screen more resistant. although i have seen a display mode; with a big old scratch on it. huawei says there will be cases available. also revealed was a smart speaker. here it is, it's called the soundex. all you do is tap the phone here to pair and then you can play your music, including from spotify, because that is in the app gallery. so here we go. loud music plays that's quite loud. oh no. so one thing they did tell me was you can put your hand over to silence the speaker if it's too loud. and that should have silenced it then. now, the company says the way the speakers here are configured as one faces this way and one faces the other way so the vibrations cancel each other out. so they say you can turn it up twice as loud as the apple homepod without it vibrating itself off the table. and that was very loud. while we are here, can we talk about product names? we have the matebook, the matepad pro, and the m pencil. i wonder where they got
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their inspiration from? on the outskirts of town, toothbrush giant oral—b pressed on with an immersive dinner and light show experience, and if you are why wondering why a toothbrush company is at mobile world congress, well, their toothbrushes have bluetooth in them... obviously! the new oral—b io has a magnetic drive, they say, is whisper—quiet, although to test that i have to go somewhere silent and i knowjust the place! usually at this time of year this place is full of the world's mobile phone industry but i can't think of a quieter place, this time, to test the toothbrush, so, here we go. i will hold at the same distance from my mic, so this is the regular oral—b. whirring. very noisy. this is the new one. whirring. also, fairly noisy and they said in the presentation this is the toothbrush that whispers but i am not convinced that is a whisper. the ultimate test is, of course,
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whether you can hear it through the bathroom door and whether it will disturb your partner so we tested that in the hotel and the resounding results of our very scientific test is, yes, you can still hear it through the bathroom door. honor also went through its new product launch — the new view 30 pro phone has a dual view recording mode, so you can take videos with a wide—angle lens and close—up lens at the same time. realme was planning to come to mwc for the first time this year, though but they did it in madrid instead. the x50 pro comes with a new focus mode that let's you lock yourself out of the phone for a few minutes and listen to relaxing sounds. perfect to combat the stress of reorganising your plans due to coronavirus. a new event has risen from ashes of this year's mwc.
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the phoenix event is a chance for companies, whose plans were disrupted, to meet and pitch their ideas. i don't think anything will substitute the person—to—person interaction. i was having this conversation with someone at a networking event this morning and it'sjust, when you have a physical connection, i think business is just different. in the end, the wmc week was not a complete disaster for everybody. there's also some interesting 5g innovation going on underground, just in time for mwc week, as omar mehtab found out. recently, it has been impossible to avoid 5g at mwc. well, this year you can because there is no show, so the city and these train halls are eerily silent. but one project looking to make its debut for this year's event has still gone ahead and it is all happening below the surface.
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and before showgoers even reached mwc, they were going to experience the superfast mobile network coverage on the underground on the way there. the 5g barcelona initiative was set up to provide the city with the next generation of mobile broadband. it is currently available between four stations of barcelona's train service, including europa theatre, the closest station to where mwc takes place. but 5g isn't just available on the train platform. it's also available in the tunnel as the train travels, becoming one of the first in the world to do so. let's see how fast the coverage is down here. i was getting around 1.1 gigabytes per second on average on the platform, but it was quite a bit lower when travelling on the train. the speed does differ between going down the tunnel and being in the station.
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it's slightly lower in the tunnel and it does vary. sometimes it can be as high as 500 meg or it can be as low as 170 but, saying that, you are still getting decent coverage down in a tunnel! and it meant i could watch a bit of click with barely any loading time whatsoever. but how is this achieved? well, we waited until the train service was closed so we could get into the tunnel and check out the 5g antenna. each set of antennae are roughly 500 metres apart with 15 currently installed between four stations, but only vodafone provides 5g coverage in barcelona, and they own all the masts on the train line but the plan is to do this for the entire train network. however, there is no clear date when this will happen. 5g requires more masts than previous network connections, so this setup can be quite complex.
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these are the first steps. very difficult for us to make all the installation at this moment. it is expensive. but we think it is a good investment for the city. if other networks come in and say, "we want to do 5g down in the rail network," then will vodafone share the masts or will they have to install their own masts? we want to provide different operators and different networks our services with vodafone. perhaps this is possible, of course, because vodafone is the owner of this network. you have to hope they say ‘yes'? we have to be prepared for this situation in the next furture. but, until then, this 5g set up will act as a test lab for companies to create and test their apps, both to improve their railway logistics and what travellers can do on their phones whilst on theirjourney. it looks like 5g is becoming part of the daily commute here in barcelona, but we did hit a little bit of problem.
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when testing the speed of the 5g network, we hit the data limit, we used about 10 gigs in about an hour, so you might want to switch to an unlimited plan! this is a piano and this, quite frankly, is all i know how to do. play these four chords over and over again until you get a massive hit — trust me, it works. but learning an instrument properly takes hard work. it takes skill and it takes a great teacher, none of which i have, but take a look at this. this is ar piano. you point your phone at your keyboard and, hey presto! you get a virtual virtuoso to show you how to tackle complex piano pieces and the interesting thing is you can slow it right down and get really close, so you can see how
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you are supposed to shape your hands as he moved from one note to the next. the problem is i'm not quite sure how to hold the phone with one hand and get both hands in to copy what he is doing, so... there is a way to get more hands on, though, or more accurately, hands in. lj rich tried a prototype which its makers promise can teach anyone to play. this little keyboard wants to teach you how to read music. so many people come up to me and say, "i really wish i had learned to play an instrument but it's too late for me now," and i really don't think that's the case. certainly, with some technology, it could be easier than you think to play your favourite song. music company roli took me
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inside their hq to show me its prototype keyboard, lumi, a light up bluetooth device aiming to give everyone the opportunity to learn their favourite song. now, light up keys are available on quite a few entry—level keyboards but the lumi has multicoloured leds so it can make it easy to find where you are if all the c notes are red, for example. sheet music has stayed the same for hundreds of years, originating from writing down hand movements of the choir master. the ceo of roli, amongst others, feels it is time to bring reading music into the 21st century. still, most people today, when they learn to play music, they learn to read music with a traditional score. that is a quill— based technology. even the shapes of the notes, even though they are not perfect circles, has to do with a quill pen and how you would write with that and that kind of calligraphy from 500 years ago.
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it is remarkable that that form of notation and system is still what we use today. the device connects to an ipad and with the help of an app and something that gives you a little bit more than just notes on a page. there is an element of intimacy or even privacy with the music learning experience. if you have a lumi and the lumi app and put on your headphones, you are in your own learning word and go at your own pace and the app will give you feedback. it is between you and the instrument and you do not feel like necessarily you are being judged in a way that you may if you had a teacher or parents looking over your shoulder. it is likely the software may prove more lucrative than the hardware. choose a song from a list of licensed partners and the app encourages people to learn to read that music. first, blocks that wait for you,
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a bit like the game guitar hero. then, you have to play in time where the colours help you find the notes and, finally, full—blown, grown—up score reading. once you become a skilled musician, you may be at a point we close your eyes and have the relationship between the sound and your muscle memory and your body. and there is a point at which you can let the visual go as part of a primary form of music making, you know, and even music learning experience. but to get to that point is very difficult and most people fail because they feel, i think, that the overall system is too complex and too austere. i certainly found the device visually pleasing and felt the urge to customise colours, a feature may soon become available. bar a few latency issues, i think it is a clever, if slightly pricey way, to gameify learning music theory. those with extra cash lying around can buy a few and link them together
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to get a longer keyboard. regardless, i will take the opportunity to encourage anyone who sees this to get on a piano, keyboard or any instrument because when it comes to learning, it's never too late to start. that was lj and that is it for this week. do not forget we live on social media so you can follow us throughout the week on facebook, youtube and instagram and twitter at bbc click. thank you for watching, and we will see you soon. hello there. named storms seem to be something of a trend for the weekend weather now. this is a third named storm we've had now after ciara, dennis, storm jorge threatens to bring some
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disruptive weather through the weekend, initially some heavy rain through this morning, and, then, we see some strong winds as we head on into the afternoon. this is the band of rain which brought the heavy rain across the country during the morning hours. is that it is through, turns much colder, some wintry showers but then we see a swathe of damaging winds affecting our island first, northern ireland, and then spreading across the irish sea. but then it'll be a brighter afternoon compared to how the day started, plenty of sunshine around, blustery showers, these heavy, some hail, thunder, and wintry as well so it'll be quite cold. longer spells of rain or snow on the hills of scotland. temperatures range from 4—7 celsius. add on the strength of the wind, which will be a future for all but particularly in the north—west it'll feel much colder than that. we have concerns with the winds initially in northern ireland this afternoon, gust 60, 70, may be more than that miles per hour, and they will transfer across the irish sea,
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north—west of wales, anglesey, gwynedd and could see gusts of 80 miles an hour, and also northern england, particularly north—west england on the coast, some huge waves crashing the shore. these are damaging gusts of wind certainly through the evening through the first part of the night. lots of showers, longer spells of rain across the north, settling snow across the pennines and across scotland. further south, blustery, not quite as wind as it will be further north, with clear spells and showers getting wintry, so a chilly night, temperatures from freezing to around three or 4 degrees. into sunday, looking quieter, this is still storm jorge but weakening and filling, sitting to the north of the uk so fewer isobars on the charts, this feature just running to the south of the uk could bring some rain initially through sunday morning for the channel islands, just grazing the south—east of england but most of the rain will stay on the near continent. the rest of us, though, a much brighter day. we will see lighter wind, plenty of sunshine around, some areas staying dry altogether, but further wintry showers, across scotland, with more settling snow here. temperatures range from 7—10, later wind, more sunshine,
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we should feel a little bit better. into next week, for the early part of march, looking colder but a little bit calmer with quite a bit of sunshine around but also one or two wintry showers.
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, 3—nil.
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good afternoon. one of the most senior civil servants in government, sir philip rutnam, has told the bbc he has resigned from his post as permanent secretary at the home office. he says he intends to pursue a claim against the government for constructive dismissal after what he called a "vicious and orchestrated" campaign against him. his decision follows days of reports about tensions between him and the home secretary, priti patel.

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