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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  April 18, 2020 3:45am-4:00am BST

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if you think about access to art, et cetera, you know, some people are able to afford those holidays to go across to venice or paris, and see the louvre for instance, and that's not available to everyone. at its heart this project could mean more people who would not usually get the chance to see out like this can enjoy it. we can think about this as a way of bringing people together in different ways. well, it's great. i've just been to a gallery. you know, when it comes down to it, it is reallyjust a very elaborate video call, but there is something quite nice about being able to walk around, discover the place yourself, find the nooks and crannies as he would if you were actually there. pretty cool. that was absolutely brilliant. that is steve driving a robot round an art gallery! fabulous! and he didn't crash it
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on the stairs, love it! now that the outside world is a lot quieter and normal, anyone who's watched a post—apocalyptic movie knows the next thing that happens is anyone who is still driving on the roads starts driving like an idiot — see will smith in i am legend or anyone in mad max. as it happens, australia hasjust rolled out the next generation of traffic cameras to try and catch the worst offenders. here's nick kwek. you're driving down the road and suddenly your phone starts to ring, you get a text, someone has liked your instagram post about juggling cats. no, not the callous lobbing of pets into the air kind, the performing felines with great dexterity kind. you want to answer — you need to answer — but if you're driving around new south wales, chances are you're being watched. this month, after a couple of test trials, mobile phone detection cameras have been officially rolled out on the south—eastern state's roads.
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you can stop it or cop it. careless drivers are being caught red—handed, well, phone—handed, and being issued fines of up to $457 a pop and ten demerit points on their licence. now people can't be separated from their mobile phones any minute of the day, and so we've seen this actually grow into a road safety risk over the last decade, and really we've been trying to restrict this risk, because you're four more times likely to have a crash if you're holding your mobile phone and if you're texting, that risk goes, you know, out of control. the new cams are in fixed, temporary and undisclosed locations, hoping to bust more devious drivers breaking the law than patrolling police. at the moment it's very difficult to enforce. this system behind me is able to perform an automatic review on traffic. it's looking at every vehicle that passes the checkpoint and it does it day or night, in all weather tirelessly, and automatically filters out the majority of people who are driving their vehicles correctly.
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the heads—up system takes three photos in infrared and runs them through a custom—made algorithm. so this is a representation of what the camera system can see in its fixed and temporary locations. we've got the camera here and on the monitor we'll see what the ai thinks is going on. if i put the image in front of the camera there, you can see the ai system's immediately identified the driver and it's associated an offensive score of in the mid—90s. that person's in fact holding a water bottle in their hand and they've got a mobile phone in their lap. so definitely not the safest of drivers. now i'm going to show an image of someone not breaking the law and just driving normally to see what it picks out, and it's given it a relatively low offence score.
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someone who has experienced firsthand the dangers of a car accident is lehany. he was involved in a truck accident when he was younger. my spinal has been severed totally. i had some head injuries. what the result of the car accident, the vehicle accident i was in made me end up in a wheelchair, and this is for the rest of my life. he works as a photograph reviewer. he makes the finaljudgement call on whether or not drivers really are using their phones. the call or the text or the facebook post can wait. that's a very bad boy, bad boy. ignorant. 95% of the photos taken by the cameras are immediately binned. only around 5% make it to people like lehany and the photos are cropped and blurred so only the driver is visible. the interesting thing
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is between that pilot and the warning letters, the offending rate dropped by more than half, so we can see that the campaign, the fact that we are out there on the network with this new technology, we can see a reduction in the illegal behaviour already starting to happen, making our roads safer. the cameras could soon be coming to a town near you. they've already been trialled in india and have their eyes set on north america, so next time you fancy snapchatting your pals behind the wheel, think again. that was nick in australia. now, working from home sounded like it was going to be a great idea to start with, didn't it? but turns out no—one‘s home is geared up for maximum productivity. so, we wanted to give you some tips on how to increase your productivity while working from home, and we decided to draft in the best person for thejob —
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it's only kate russell! hello, mate, how are you? i'm great, thank you, absolutely living in chaos. my living room looks like a studio. cat meows you can hear the cat. i can, sounds like a cat. i didn't expect that to happen! he is a cat and he is here to make my life more difficult and also more cuddly. and that's the problem, if we're trying to be professional while we're on these video meetings, we're interrupted by all sorts of things. what i think is amazing is the rise of zoom in the last few weeks, what is also worrying, though, is the rise of unwelcome zoom visitors in meetings, because if you're giving out a meeting number that people can join, if anyone else gets hold of that number, they can join, even if they haven't technically been invited. absolutely, but there's a simple way to protect yourself. first of all, you should password—protect and encrypt your meetings, but also if
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you open the advanced settings when you schedule a meeting, you can tick the box that says you want to enable the waiting room and then what happens then is when somebody dials in they get put in a waiting room before you as the host give them permission to come into the main room first. brilliant, that's why we've got kate, you see, she will elevate you to zoom ninja in 20 seconds. and there's a couple of other great tips you should know about zoom. the software can handle up to 100 participants at a time, which sounds quite horrific to me, but i've been enjoying using the custom backgrounds. it adds a bit of colour to the meetings and handy if you don't want people you're virtually meeting to see your home. and the touchup appearance feature adds a softening and beautifying filter to your camera feed. it's not cheating! unfortunately, this increased popularity has attracted hackers too. in the past few weeks, security researchers have noticed a spike in the number websites
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registered including the word "zoom", and many could be spoof sites. just taking extra care typing in the web address is important for any site. i'm a huge list person, and todoist is what every ring—bound pad wants to be when it grows up. this digital to—do list let's you plan ahead, setting tasks, sub—tasks, deadlines and priorities. the free version can be used by up to five people on simple lists for up to 80 projects. in premium, you can work in groups of 25 across 300 projects, and you can add reminders, comments and upload files. another great way to improve productivity is to understand just where your time is going. time—tracking app toggl simply records the time spent on various tasks. recorded hours can be saved by project and client for teams of up to five people in the free version. the paid option lets you do the same with larger teams, also including features like setting reminders and rules for billable time, as well as project
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and team—management tools. i want to finish by sharing a tweet that spencer retweeted recently. because despite how hard we try, it's worth remembering this: regardless of personal circumstances, it is unrealistic to expect yourself to be as productive as normal during a global pandemic. read it, repeat it, forgive yourself. take care, everybody. ah, always lovely to have kate back on the show, and i have to say, try adding working from home with children to the equation and all i can say to you is i'm very relieved that door hasn't opened while we've been making this programme. it was 50—50, wasn't it, i remember you saying beforehand! the good news is, the next time kate is on she'll be dealing with the children, looking at tools and tips to do with homeschooling. i'm afraid that's it for now, we've done it, made it through another show! and you can keep up with the team through the week, although obviously we're not out and about as usual, on youtube, instagram,
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facebook and twitter — @bbcclick. that's it for now, though. thanks so much for watching. we'll see you soon. bye— bye. hello once again. friday was an absolute sparkler of a day. this was the scene late in the day across mallaig in the western side of scotland. and there was 13 hours of sunshine or so to be had in stornoway, just a wee bit further to the north and west. come a good dealfurther to the south, though, and it really was wet at times thanks to an area of low pressure in biscay throwing these with weather fronts up and across the southern half of the british isles. and it will continue to do that during the course of saturday. there's no great rush
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to really change things, so a lot of cloud across the greater part of england and wales and some really quite heavy bursts of rain as well. a little bit of organisation about it. there's a band of weather trying to move a little bit further north into the north of england. and then come the afternoon, the remnants of something just pushing those showers over towards wales. all the while, the very far north of england, scotland, northern ireland, variable amounts of cloud, but a deal of sunshine. but an onshore breeze just pegging those temperatures back along the north sea—facing coasts. eight, nine or ten degrees yet again. this is sunday. starts off pretty cloudy again for the greater part of england and wales. butjust hopeful through the day that some of that cloud willjust drift a little bit further away towards the west, allowing better chances of sunshine to break out across many of those eastern counties. and again, scotland doing very well. temperatures in a range of ii to about 19, so feeling just that tad warmer right out across the piece. and we stay with the theme of a lot
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of dry weather with some decent spells of sunshine, although it will be really rather windy, as we get on through the forthcoming week. as i take you from sunday on into monday, we've got a big area of high pressure just to the north—east of the british isles. very disturbed weather across the southern parts of france and into eastern parts of spain. and it's the squeeze between those features that give us the easterly wind, and the wind will be quite a noticeable feature of the day. could be quite a chilly start for the northern glens of scotland. and the wind will be a feature wherever you happen to be stepping out of the door for that brief spell of exercise. i'm showing you the mean speeds. on top of that, we've got the gusts. could be around 30mph or so. temperatures, though, not too bad. 13 to about 18 or 19, particularly where you can tuck yourself away from that wind over towards the west. and it's that same combination of high and low pressure that will keep us going with the dry weather into the middle of the week.
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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here
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in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm rich preston. our top stories: the worldwide death toll from coronavirus passes 150,000. with the uk death toll atjust over iia,500, health authorities are warning some hospitals in england will run out of key protective equipment this weekend. slowing the spread, there are warnings that after europe and the us, africa will be next to suffer infection. as people stay indoors, we look at how nature has been taking back the world's empty parks and streets.

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