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from next to nothing to global domination left us. stevejobs, the biggest tech superstar of his time. also in 2011, lara joined the team and immediately went for a lie down. the trouble is i often get up at 3:30am to talk about the weather. good morning. you remember the weather, don't you? it's the thing that's outside? and in the year of wiggly robots, holographic tv and cheap costume hire, we went looking for the next big thing. here it is. for truly portable smartphone viewing, check out this tv hat. sorry, here it is. imagine wearable, bendable and colour—changeable tech? the breakthrough could be a material called graphene. down there, taking rare time on his now pathological need to destroy technology.
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in 2012, mark demonstrated the standard tween the games consoles using the medium of the spaghetti western. special guest star, mario. and the rolling out a new universal id scheme farmers were altering their crops using text messages copy just a shame that now wasn't up to much. we also saw elephant collars and smart water pumps in kenya, and could you make a film on a mobile phone in 2012? no, absolutely not. so we did, with special effects. you're welcome. by 2013, 3d printing was churning out all sorts of weird stuff, including bits for planes and space rovers.
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talking of which, here's another numberfrom mark's dressing up box, as he went full 2001 to look at the new xbox 0ne. and yes, that is what he wears when he goes to the shops nowadays. wouldn't save him from the attack of the giant robot spiders, though. but right now, when our biggest enemy is a tiny virus, i remember this trip to the deep—frozen blood banks of iceland, where eco—genetics were at the forefront of research into why each of us does or doesn't suffer from certain diseases. back in 2014, though, nothing could be further from our minds, as we popped on our phone skirts, hopped on our one—wheels and headed to australia. they were also studying how bushfires behave to help the authorities predict who to evacuate, and when. injapan, dan got his hands on the world's first 56 transmitter. this now fits in your phone.
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i did some air graffiti, lara did the windows, and lj got a facelift. see, i told you she was a cyborg. talking of which... in 2014, drones were everywhere. they were literally falling out of the sky. in israel, jen scared the life out of a lamp, and we saw the first self—driving car that could handle junctions. unlike mark. watch out mark. there's a visual effect straight ahead! 2015 was a vintage year. south korea served up robots that hunted jellyfish, and an e—sports tournament where the teams were kept in a fish tank and flying hairdryers. and who could forget hugo, the robot that made me
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lose my faculties in the middle of a car park? in spain, we filmed a whole programme on mobile. don't do it, it was awful. what do you mean, everyone‘s having to do it these days? japan, brilliant. full of fake cats and ping—pong—playing robots. i was even checked out by a dinosaur. artificial intelligence was becoming huge, and steve created one that learned to walk. vr was going mainstream. kate was making it out of cardboard, and mark was falling for it in a big way. i actually tried to lean on the table there. we thought nothing could top 2015, but then along came 2016. we saw the large hadron collider, and i had a moment. we went live for the first time, and the whole audience had one. and we became the first show to be
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filmed entirely in 360. look out, we're behind you! we made brand—new friends. it's haggerty dog from cbbc! wow, it's... lara lewington from bbc click! never heard of that. we saw such inspiring stories. but for me, one of my lifetime highlights, was the cybathlon in switzerland where roboticists and athletes worked together to one day make disability a thing of the past. by 2017, we were starting to get the sense that something was going wrong. fake news was the talk of the town, and cambridge analytica were being accused of messing with our brains. don't mess with dave's brain, or he'll mess with yours. and seriously, don't mess with kat's, or she'll do
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some serious damage. talking of damage, this is the year the robots storm the castle. that's the first guest we have lost, as i recall. space was hotting up, with all kinds of plans to explore the solar system and land on other worlds. it's bouncy! and then there was fukushima. i climbed under a nuclear reactor and saw the robots that they're hoping will clean up the melted radioactive fuel. nothing i can add to that sentence will make it sound any more impressive. but, perhaps more than anything, this scene now sticks in my mind. the site of an abandoned nearby town, a scene that now seems uncomfortably close to home. what i'm actually standing on is less than a millimetre thick, and it really feels it. protecting the environment has become a more and more urgent task, and we've seen our fair share of green tech over the years. here is lara on a floating solar farm in norway. in some ways, 2018 was
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pretty wet all round. steve did a vr waterslide because, well, why not? and here's nick on a jet—powered water board, because jet—powered water board. if we'd let him, he would have gone on this as well. he is off! look at him go! that is amazing! see you later, i'm off on the hover board. not everything was as it seemed, mind you. mark entered the largest green screen studio in the world and swears that he pulled this off first time. laughs. and the crowd goes wild! seriously, don't believe your eyes. the rise of deepfakes meant that face swappping was reality. although whoever thought this was the best way to demonstrate it needs their head examined. we did a lot in 2018. a lot of it in slow—mo, which makes everything look cool.
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but once again you have to headed to the japanese. this put everything else in the shade. are they working? i can see your microphone, and i can see that you are smiling, and i can see there is a lady in the front with a red jacket, the guy next to her is wearing stripes! oh, my god, it's so amazing. remember maisie? we do. she broke our hearts and mended them all in one go, as she got to read her favourite book for the first time since she lost her sight. 2019 was an emotional year, really. we hid a continuous run of 1,000 shows, celebrating by making an interactive adventure that was the hardest programme we've ever made. 50 years after the arguably greater achievement of landing on the moon, lj bounced her voice off it. hello, moon people! hello moon people! and we got to see the vehicles we'll be travelling to space in next. feel the forces in your tailbone... oh, i feel the forces in my tailbone! as could 0mar.
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plenty of forces there, i would have thought. yeah, i'd say there's nothing we won't do for click, a programme that has allowed us to live out our wildest, most childish dreams, and which has driven us mad and kept us sane every week for longer than anyone would have imagined. for however long you've been on this journey with us, i hope you've enjoyed the ride. such great memories. it's been a huge privilege for us to see these incredible things, and share them with you, over the past two decades. the world has changed a lot in the last 20 years, but right now, it's changing in a way i don't think many of us have seen in our lifetimes. and that means that click has to change, too. like many of you, the team are now separated and isolated, and that means it's going to be nearly impossible for us to make
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a weekly programme. so we've taken the difficult decision... ..to flipping well carry on. in the last 20 years, we have pioneered ways of making programmes in bizarre and impossible circumstances, so if anyone can do it, we can. you've given us 20 years. it's the least we can do for you. i don't know what next week's click is going to look like yet, but i promise you this. there will be a click next week. so thank you, from all of us. thank you for watching, thank you for being there, and we will see you soon.
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hello, yes. 0ur weather is turning warmer this weekend. but of course we follow the rules, stay at home, and we improvise. and whatever your view on the weather outside, it'll be sunnier by sunday, and out that it'll be warmer. it'll also be windier, as well, with pollen levels heading up. the big picture shows high pressure to the east of us, low pressure approaching from atlantic, and that ahead of it will strengthen the southerly flow. of course, that's a warm direction, so it will be a warm wind on sunday, lifting temperatures in the sunnier parts of eastern england to around 20, maybe 21 celsius. that said, though, there will be a touch of frost in places as saturday begins, cooler than this in the countryside, so some spots close to freezing.
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there'll be a few mist and fog patches out there, perhaps more especially towards the midlands and southern england. some rain in northern scotland will set on across the northern isles, still the odd shower in scotland and northern england. from what will be a good deal of cloud, a few bright and sunny spells. elsewhere in england and wales, there will be increasing sunshine as we go through the day. while all parts are going to be milder, it is particularly across england and wales where we will notice those temperatures into the mid—teens. but also a freshening southerly wind, a sign of things to come as we get deeper into the weekend. 0vernight and into sunday morning, although there is plenty of cloud around, enough of the wind to stop the temperature going down too fast. so we are frost—free as sunday begins, and sunday will deliver plenty of sunshine. and whilst most places will hold onto that sunshine, the further west you are, you'll see it clouding over. and we may well start to get a bit of rain later in the day, northern ireland, parts of western scotland,
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the far west of england and wales. some uncertainty about the timing of the arrival of any rain from an area of low pressure i showed you earlier. what is certain, though, is the winds will pick up more on sunday, gusts across western areas later in the day, near 50 mph. but it will be warmer across all parts, and particularly in that sunshine across some eastern parts of england, we could see around 21 celsius. but pollen levels will be higher and particularly in england and wales. now, into next week, well, sunday night into monday, we will see from that area of low pressure a band of rain spread east across the uk. behind that, as it clears on monday, sunshine returns. it'll be cooler, before temperatures head up again as the week goes on.
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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm simon pusey. our top stories: china observes three minutes silence to commemorate victims of coranavirus. one of the world's largest hospitals opens in london to treat 4000 coronavirus patients and there's a stern warning for people in britain to stay indoors this weekend. as the us suffers its worst daily death toll from coronavirus, america's health watchdog says people should wear face masks when they go out — but the president doesn't seem to agree. so, with the masks, it's going to be really a voluntary thing. you can do it, you don't have to do it. i'm choosing not to do it but some people may want to do it and that's ok. the head of the imf says the pandemic has caused

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