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this week: revving up your router. giant wrappers in lockdown. and longships and loud vikings. odin is with us! hello you, and hello lara, how are you doing? hello, i'm good thank you, and you seem to have cut your hair. yes, the haircut has finally happened and i have to say, the relationship survived. there was no blood and to be honest, i think she has done a good job, don't you?m is good but has the colour changed a

bit? yes, i am trying a new artificial silver colour, shall we say, don't worry i will return to my natural colour of suspiciously brown as soon as i can get back to a proper hairdresser. you have had a good week, you had a lockdown birthday. that's right, it was very nice but i don't think the years need to count in lockdown. in your house, though, there has been another birthday. i had the terrible task of hosting a 10th birthday for my son and seven of his friends on video chat. i normally do the silly games for the parties so what will i doa games for the parties so what will i do a lockdown? i decided to do a quiz, so i knocked up some google slides, i used screen sharing so eve ryo ne slides, i used screen sharing so everyone could see them and off we went. here's what we did. we played gassy objects, it is a cat, then i got a photo of my son and everyone had to guess whose eyes i had on him. most got henry viii, steve from mine craft, nobody got lack of a

dog. and my four—year—old daughter was the only one to get this. that isa my was the only one to get this. that is a my little pony. absolutely correct. and it is notjust children who are missing events. we all laughed. and music has been a real casualty of this, so much has been cancelled, music festivals are off, the venues are closed, and it is ha rd to the venues are closed, and it is hard to imagine when we will next be going to a concert. true, but musicians are not giving up so easily. this is not your typical gig venue. but earlier this month, more than 700,000 people logged in live to watch helsinki's and may day concert performed in this virtual arena. complete with digital fireworks. fans far away as the usa and germany jammed online fireworks. fans far away as the usa and germanyjammed online with finish wrappers jvg. virtual gigs

are not new. last year 10 million people watched dj marshmello dj the first concert held inside the game fortnite. then came rubber travis scott to smash that record in april when 12.3 million players logged in to watch his astronomical event alive. now i assume that despite the huge audience figures, this just wouldn't appeal to the more traditional musicians who thrive from playing to a live audience. i mean, world—famous from playing to a live audience. i mean, world —famous jazz from playing to a live audience. i mean, world—famous jazz genius jamie calla n ward mean, world—famous jazz genius jamie callan ward think this was an absolute travesty, right? —— cullum. i love this idea. i am a big computer game fan, so in recent years computer games have got more advanced and i am not an online player so much but i love the big open world games like grand theft auto, the last of us, red dead

redemption, they really thought very ha rd redemption, they really thought very hard about the soundtracks. i've actually discovered music through the radio stations as you drive around ina the radio stations as you drive around in a stolen car in grand theft auto. i would be first in line if they had opened up a jazz club in grand theft auto and i could play in it, orany grand theft auto and i could play in it, or any type of concert. so all bets are off it seems, and anything is possible. while i have been a jazz clubs, mine craft gamers have taken it upon themselves to create their own massive gigs from their bedroom. it started in may 2018 when producer, dj, friend max drawn through his 21st but they are mine craft. it went better than anyone expected. since then hundreds of thousands of fans attended their festivals to see massive music stars. it is the only game that allows us to do what we do. we have

no affiliation to microsoft or minecraft and we can still run our events independently. and musicians have started to build their own arenas as well as a tribute to the cancelled music festival sxsw, indie band courier club have launched blocked by blockwest. if you are indie band or in a small niche, it will be hard to back out of venue and two other world, but if you can book a show in a virtual platform and everyone that is spread out your community together, you can put on a full show, and you can monetise it and the money can go directly to the artist, rather than kind of circumventing through third parties. the idea is that it breaks down financial barriers, it breaks down geographical barriers and a kind of disrupts the whole festival circuit. and for artists like pussy riot, breaking down political barriers is

just as important as breaking down financial ones. to me it opens up the opposition —— opportunity for us to play for a russian audience, even when it was not coronavirus, we are still enemies of the state so sometimes cops are arresting us for just leaving the house. and western musicians never come to these cities, it doesn't matter if it is coronavirus not coronavirus. so it doesn't matter where you are having this concert. so i think that is the future, to just cut all the people in the middle who take the money, basically. and so to the question of money. in these extraordinary times, many artists are giving their performances away for free, or like during which a stream aid, to

encourage donations for health workers. —— twitch. but can they give away their live performances for nothing? you have erykah badu, who is charging for hers and seeing it like a full production. even though she is not about to go bankrupt, she has, i have a group of people and by bringing them together and making some money we can keep things going. she have done some incredibly experimental stuff. there is no substitute for real gig but i think it is to stay connect to the people who love their music. —— wonderfulfor people who love their music. —— wonderful for artists to stay connected to the people who love the music. and just as concerts split fees without a super venues, virtual venues are toying with the same idea. we have seen a quadrupling of the amount of non— gaming content on twitch, and one of our strengths

over time which ensures that musicians have a strong likelihood of broadcasting on twitch after lockdown ends, if they will see this isa lockdown ends, if they will see this is a viable revenue stream. even if artists can make money from live performances, you have to admit the atmosphere on an actual live performance is pretty unique. i asked chart topping artists hosier about playing online. it is a sad feeling of knowing that there are hundreds of thousands of people looking at you at the moment and you are in stark silence. that is very odd. 0nce are in stark silence. that is very odd. once the messages start coming in there is a sense of 0k, there is a community there, and that is a good feeling. i am reading your messages, thank you so much. i was quite surprised i have to say and how fulfilling that was, having interacted in real time with people. which to be there is not something

you can do in a gig. # take me to church, i worship like adog... # take me to church, i worship like a dog... hello and welcome to the weekend tech. it was the week that google subsidiary sidewalk labs decided to pull the plug on its controversial smart city project in toronto. london base face was that it will updated security cameras to recognise people even our wedding —— wearing a mask. and chinese autonomous aerial company ehang and as they will build a hotel themed around passenger drone travel. the company has recently shown off several demos of passenger flights without pilots. it was also the week that twitter ceo jack dorsey said his employees can work from home forever. he said it will be his decision went to reopen twitter‘s offices it is up to workers if they wa nt to offices it is up to workers if they want to come back with the option to work at home indefinitely. razor blades and needles have been found

hidden in anti—5g posters on telegraph poles in the uk. these discoveries follow a series of attacks on engineers fuelled by conspiracy theories wrongly linking sg conspiracy theories wrongly linking 56 to conspiracy theories wrongly linking 5g to the spread of coronavirus. singapore released robot hounds to police social distancing. spot, austin dynamics‘ robot dog has been fitted with a camera to monitor how busy one of the country‘s parks gets. it has a speaker which will bark messages on keeping far enough apart. and some of the highest resolution images ofjupiter ever seen were released this week after yea rs of seen were released this week after years of observations. using a technique called lucky imaging, scientist applied multiple exposures of the planet, putting them together ina of the planet, putting them together in a mosaic. the team behind images as it rivals the view from space. —— says it rivals the view from space. 0ne says it rivals the view from space. one of the biggest culprits of bad quality video on a conference call is poor wi—fi signal. maybe you are

sitting too far away from the router with solid walls between you and it, or perhaps other people in your household are hammering the wi—fi network with streaming videos and games. we also host diplomats and otherforeign leaders games. we also host diplomats and other foreign leaders when they visit. or it could be that the channel your wi—fi is being carried on by your router is just too crowded with other routers. this wi—fi analyser app for android will reveal what is going on around you. there are a range of channels available and most routers default to the same view. that is why you see everybody crowded around down here. but see this that‘s me out of my own, a band with hog of the ninth order. so how did i get that vip channel just for me? well, order. so how did i get that vip channeljust for me? well, it‘s not that hard. but don‘t tell everyone, 0k? that hard. but don‘t tell everyone, ok? you need to open your router‘s

admin tools which can be accessed by entering the default gateway ip in the address bar of any browser on a device connected to the router. your ip address may well be the same as mine, so give that a try. if not, open your network and internet settings then view your network properties to find the default address. you will need the admin password, which if you have never accessed this part of your router before, should be in the paperwork that came with it. in the wireless settings, if five gigahertz is available make sure that it enabled, to change your wi—fi channel you might need to take it off auto settings, then just use a different channel and see if it improves the signal. 0ne channel and see if it improves the signal. one final quality tip to get you going — set your camera at eye level and make sure the strongest light source is in front of and not behind you. so all of us have had to

adapt the way that we work, but for some disabled people that has made getting to grips with a completely new way of communicating. and paul carter has been finding out more. injust the carter has been finding out more. in just the course of a few weeks, through a screen has rapidly become one of the way —— main ways we stay in touch with friends, family, but also our colleagues. but one section of the community that change has brought some other very specific challenges. i am profoundly deaf, by voices very good but i don‘t hear you, you sound awesome. for the deaf and hearing impaired community this change has meant an increasing reliance on a rapidly developing and improving technology, live captioning, which uses ai improving technology, live captioning, which uses alto produce real—time on—screen transcriptions of what a person is saying, as you can see below. and most of the major platforms now included.

0ne one person with experience of this on both side of the centres is a microsoft office. i spoke to her with the assistance of her sign interpreter. they are now really in most scenarios superb illustrations of what is being said. are they perfect? no. and i think captioning was something where there was a lot of nerves, a lot of empowerment, but also some nerves. that is changing. but life caption are only one solution and they are not suitable for everyone. —— live. a breakdown

of accessibility features of all platforms are looked at and there are concerns about accessibility across programmes. the softwood was already an issue with disabled people. this technology was available before covid—19 and automated captions have been around for a really long time. the fact that there is not consistent accessibility features, quality, availability across different platforms really demonstrates how low on the priority list accessibility has been. what i will say about disabled people, they are the original life hackers. when you ta ke to the original life hackers. when you take to disabled people, it is not ideal they say but they deserve a quality of access and quality services for any business. the message to individual developers and organisations to develop those apps is to ensure that the needs are

taken on board when designing, developing apps. developers have to continue to test. test, test, test. updates, new versions of those apps as they come through development. they need to be tested with real users. if there is one thing that we asa users. if there is one thing that we as a community is that we are born problem solvers and this one is a little bigger than the normal sized problem. every aspect of the disability is having its own learning curve and india to come, we will write down these learnings for future generations. but even with new solutions, come new problems.

could one of the tiny glimmers of light from this pandemic meant that it kicks greater accessibility equipment when you put technology and induce into a new set of scenarios, which is what we‘re doing right now, you‘re going to put an enormous amount of learning and generate a huge amount of innovation on the back of it. i would say there is an enormous amount of stuff out there to help employees work in the remote world. we are doing it and there are moments and days where it

is not easy but i would say it is a lot easier than we thought it was going to be and so really ijust know that it is entirely possible. going to be and so really ijust know that it is entirely possiblelj have know that it is entirely possible.” have been looking forward to this for weeks. i have not seen mark in the flash for months. how have you been? we are ok, juggling childcare and working for the same space. —— from the same space which is... interesting, the best way to put it. very politely put. it is just mad. we talked about music events being cancelled for the foreseeable future. film and tv production is off at the moment as well? it is very difficult to socially distance ona very difficult to socially distance on a movie and tv dramas that so they have had to completely shut down. interestingly, you have

directors like james garner, the guy who made guardians of the galaxy, he says he is working on a postproduction to his movie suicide squad at home. but if you‘re trying to film anything right now, all of thatis to film anything right now, all of that is completely shut down. the other form of entertainment, videogames. we normally would be going to the show injune, that is your busman ‘s holiday so i do not know what you do it this summer. what is your take on what the industry has or has not manufactured? videogames, rather than filming everything, every bit is generated on software and on hardware so the videogames industry is in hardware so the videogames industry isina hardware so the videogames industry is in a unique position. instead of working together in an office or studio, they have packed up the kit and continue to work at home. studio, they have packed up the kit and continue to work at homem studio, they have packed up the kit and continue to work at home. it is incredible. i have spoken to a lot of game developers and they are

happy working from home is. they feel non—productive and have no distractions. they can work wherever they. and expect a release later this year. they have announced a viking theme for this outing in a long—running theme. viking theme for this outing in a long-running theme. they murder and kill blindly. i caught up with the creative director via video call with him in montreal. for a chat about valhalla. how was the lockdown due to covid—19 pandemic affected the development of this title? some

adapting had to be done to work in this new reality but we have a lot of incredible software. you realise all of a sudden when you are pushed into this kind of context that it is actually quite feasible, we are in quite good shape to be able to manage the way we handle our communication, our reviews. we have the tools we need so it is going quite well overall. a franchise like yours is very big, it is something ofa yours is very big, it is something of a juggernaut. is there a pressure to get completed in spite of the coronavirus lockdown?” to get completed in spite of the coronavirus lockdown? i would say with our fan base, coronavirus lockdown? i would say with ourfan base, there is always at this internal pressure to deliver at this internal pressure to deliver a high—quality experience. this is what we strive for an hour ambition. we check week by week in how we are

in terms of productivity and efficiency and it is something we need to monitorfor sure but our ambitions and our goals have not changed. a viking who has had enough of the fjords and leaves his people for norway resettled in england. a move which does not go down well at all with the locals. vikings are famous for turning up, smashing stuff, stealing things. how is that going to be express? you have a raiding party, a cruise ship, then we have the settlement at the heart of the motivation of the journey. so we‘re building a home, new settle m e nt we‘re building a home, new settlement in england. players can pretty much put any weapon they want, any combination of weapons. if you want to play with two shields, we let it happen. it is slated to release on pc, current and next gen

consoles. that was mark. now we have been looking at some of the entertainment that has had to be cancelled and this weekend i have been looking looking forward to the new revision song contest what has happened is the ai you revision —— eurovision. would you believe, i picked the winner? the australian entry. i think it was the totally bonkers lyrics that wanted. maybe add your good at predicting the likability of cheesy, artificially created pop. thank you for watching we will be back next week live in our living rooms. you can find the tea m our living rooms. you can find the team on social media. thank you for

watching and we will see you soon. hello. if it‘s warmth you‘re after, there is some in this forecast, eventually for all. if it‘s rain, that‘s only coming for some. now saturday‘s weather looks to be a complete repeat of what we had on friday. warm sunny spells at times, from cloud, the chance of a shower. things are though steadily changing. we‘re going to bring warmer air into the uk, as that weekend goes on, more widely into next week. there will be a bit of rain in places as that transition takes place, more especially though across parts of scotland and northern ireland. let‘s take a look at things first thing for saturday morning.

not as chilly to start the day. there‘s still the chance of a touch of ground frost in one or two spots. so by day and by night, temperatures are heading up. gardeners and growers can relax, unless of course you‘re waiting for some rain. there will be a bit of rain at times, across the far north of scotland, into 0rkney. a few shaowers to northern and western scotland. a few showers to northern and western scotland. south—east scotland staying mainly dry. cloud building into northern ireland — one or two showers around here. we could see one or two towards northern england and north wales, but much of england and wales will stay dry, with temperatures edging towards the high teens. but in the northern isles, we are stuck in some fairly chilly air. but wherever you get to see some sunshine, it is strong may sunshine. it will feel quite warm. into the evening, though, some rain pushing in across northern ireland overnight into sunday morning, reaching into western scotland. still some rain in the far north of scotland, too. 0vernight temperatures as we where there‘s no frost as we go inot sunday morning. so for part two of the

weekend, there are some weather fronts close by. most of the rain though will be falling in western scotland, especially into the north—west islands, where it would be very wet for a time. but we could well see a spell ofrain moving right across scotland on sunday, even effecting parts of northern england, and a bit of patchy rain still possibly in northern ireland. but for the rest of england and for wales, it does look mainly dry. there will be some hazy sunshine around. it is here temperatures are starting to edge up. some spots just into the low 20s. that warmth will push across the uk more widely as we go through the week ahead. it is towards the end of the week, there is a chance of seeing a bit of wet weather moving in from the west. that is not guaranteed though. we will keep you updated on that. for much of the weak, it‘s high pressure and dry.

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