it was also the week that ibm announced it would no longer offer, develop or research general face recognition technology. in a letter to us congress the company said it firmly opposes use of any technology for mass surveillance of racial profiling. amazon then put a one—year ban on the use of its recognition product by the police, and microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition tech to the police until federal regulations were in place. remote doctor app babylon health acknowledged it suffered a data breach after after one of its users found they had access to dozens of video recordings of other patients‘ consultations. babylon said it has now fixed the issue and notified regulators. retailer gap has bought 73 warehouse robots to help with demand created by online orders. these sort picking robots can pick 335 pieces per hour. and finally this week, we saw a new cable driven robot that can be used to interact

with and track flying insects. researchers say the "lab on cables" allows them to successfully match the movement of bugs in flight, allowing them to study them untethered. so, earlier lara spoke about the alternatives to going to physical shops but there are sometimes situations where you do want to visit a store or maybe a tourist attraction and then the main worry is staying a safe distance from the other visitors. so how about this? visitors to florence cathedral in italy are now being asked to wear something extra as they admire its famous dome. these devices use ultrawide band radio signals to judge how far away each is from the others. if a visitor to the cathedral or the museum inadvertently draws too near someone else, the light that here you see absolutely still, will begin to move and there will be an audible

sensation, a kind of buzz. meanwhile, this gallery in new york state is planning to use the same device to allow its visitors to lose themselves in its artworks without wandering into others who are similarly absorbed. we wanted to make sure people could have an extra hand and a little help to feel more comfortable in the space and to focus on the art as much as possible instead of actually constantly being terrorised in a way by safety measures. also, another feature that is very important for us is the possibility to programme them so we can host groups up to six people altogether and avoid the devices to ring amont each other to host families and groups. similar devices have now been produced, all in an effort to allow

gym members, hotel guests, and school pupils to mix at a safe distance in their respective environments. this nudge tactic is already a hit at this library in belgium. it is not a big deal, it is just an extra step in entering the library. it is easy to use, because you are not really using it actively, but it helps you be aware. and the advantage of a decentralised device is that no personal data is stored anywhere. because we can give immediate feedback we do not need to store anything. we do not need to lock any personal information, we do not need to send any personal data to a backend or the internet or a gateway. it is a completely privacy proof solution that will help support social distancing in the moment itself. but collecting some data is not always a bad idea.

as well as helping shoppers avoid each other, these neck bands could help shops plan to keep customers apart. when bump‘s adopted by retailers, it gives them a lot of insight into how the store is laid out, where the hotspots are, if you like, where people are coming into close contact with each other. so it enables the retailer to change the layout of the aisles, of how people browse, whether it be clothes or electricals based on real data rather than assumptions. there are places, however, that can only reopen accepting the fact that people do have to be more closely packed together. like sporting events. and that is why they're happening behind closed doors. yeah, with fans being unable to go to matches, everyone loses out. it's not good for fans nor for the players who cannot hear the support of their fans. paul carter has been looking at this and we will hear about it

in a second, after we say... hello, paul, how have you been? hey, spen, hey, lara. i'm all right, thank you. i'm clinging to what little bit of sanity i had left before all this started, but i am doing 0k. what have you been up to? we are used to travelling a lot on this show and that is out of the window at the moment so i've been throwing myself into the virtual world rather than the real world and have been playing a lot of ps4 and spending my time completing final fantasy vii and red dead redemption ii. sounds fun. well, i'm glad to hear you have been busy. what have you been looking at with sport? football. and i'm delighted to say that i can finally say football is coming because games are going to be played behind closed doors for the foreseeable future and at home is the only place most of us will be able to watch any. so to make the stadiums feel a little less empty, clubs and broadcasters have been trying tech—based solutions to try

and make things seem a little more atmospheric. around the world, football is slowly returning. albeit to mostly empty stadiums. in denmark, the season restarted at the end of may. to try and create some sort of atmosphere in what had been dubbed ghost games, superliga club aarhus created a a0 metre virtual grandstand. we knew that we could not have spectators during the first games so we needed to somehow recreate this community and i must say it worked out very well. actually at some points it was very moving. the first game where we had it we had a very late equaliser, a very important goal and i looked up at this big screen. and i saw an elderly couple and a woman was standing and cheering and then she turned around and kissed her husband who was still seated. so those intimate moments,

we get the chance to share because we had the opportunity to come straight home to the fans. we also had a camera under the screen so if players wanted, they could run out and cheer and the fans could see them. also in denmark, league leaders fc midtjylland turned their stadium into a drive—in. fans were able to watch the games on the screens erected in the car park with commentary on the car radio. they lost 1—0, so it may have been a long drive home. elsewhere, one company are taking the concept of virtual fans one step further. oz sports created a solution giving supporters a chance to appear inside the stadium as avatars, using mixed reality. so we help people where they can sign up from their homes, they can pick their avatar, they can put on their favourite jersey for their favourite club, they can pick a seat in the stadium and we bring them into a new parallel universe

that is mixed with the broadcast. so the director of the broadcast is making decisions on switching cameras et cetera, sees an augmented version of the fans. maybe they can see a great moment with someone in the stadium is doing something fun, maybe a dance of their favourit club or cheering and they could zoom into that, just to bring energy into the game to show that there are people out there that are cheering for the club. sky sports revealed this week that they are going to be using crowd noise from the game fifa20 for their premier league broadcasts. the stands might not be full, but they'll sound like they are with sky sports crowds. while bt sport have been experimenting during their bundesliga coverage by playing relevant crowd noise over match events. both broadcasters will be offering

the crowd noise as a chooseable option for the customers. in spain, la liga have began using a similar solution. so is using tech to be the 12th man a great idea or are they having a proverbial stinker? i generally dislike fakery wherever it happens. however on this occasion i am all for it. absolutely 100%. the idea of putting people on zoom around, as they do for the english clubs, that for me is fabulous. in every way imaginable. it is the closest thing you can possibly get to the real thing. more clubs and broadcasters are expected to reveal other tech solutions as the restarted season progresses although if you are anything like me, no tech will ever beat the real thing. that was paul and that is it for this week.

you can find us throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook, and twitter @bbcclick. thank you so much for watching and we will see you soon. goodbye. bye-bye. hello. there are some big thunderstorms in the forecast for this weekend. but it is not going to be raining everywhere all the time, in fact, there will be some sunny spells. in any sunshine, it will feel quite warm and pretty humid. but some thundery downpours are likely, all driven by an area of low pressure. you can see this swirl of cloud on the satellite picture. our area of low pressure has been spinning around across the bay of biscay. it's been throwing lumps of cloud and rain in our direction, a process which continues on through saturday. we can follow the different

lumps of wet weather. this area of rain moving across northeast england through the morning and then up into scotland. i think it's going to stay quite grey and murky for some of these northern and eastern coasts. northern ireland should brighten up a little bit with some sunshine, but some showers. and then down across england and wales, we will see some sunny spells developing, but some very heavy downpours and thunderstorms breaking out here. a more persistent area of wet weather likely to push towards the southwest of england as we head through the afternoon. and then you can see these scattered downpours and thunderstorms across parts of the midlands, wales and up into northwest england particularly. but it will be warm temperatures there for liverpool, for example, 23 degrees. the odd shower for northern ireland and some outbreaks of rain continuing across some parts of scotland, although i think northwest scotland will see a decent amount of sunshine. northeast scotland holding onto some of that coastal cloud, mist and murk. so, as we go into saturday night, we continue to push our

various lumps of wet weather northwards and westwards across the british isles. there will be some clear spells, equally, some fog patches, i think it's likely to stay very murky for some of those eastern coasts of scotland and england. but a very mild night. temperatures as we start sunday morning between 11—14 degrees. then for sunday, well, really, it is more of the same. a lot of the cloud for these eastern and northern parts. elsewhere, some spells of sunshine, yes, but a scattering of showers, they will be quite hit and miss, but where they do prop up, they could well be heavy with some hail and thunder thrown in for good measure. and it's another warm day as well with temperatures widely 21—24 degrees. a little bit cooler though where we keep the cloud close to some of those north sea coasts. now, our area of low pressure will still be with us as we head into monday, but it does weaken. it becomes quite flabby. not many white lines on the chart, you'll notice. not many isobars, so not much of a wind, but any showers that do crop up will be heavy and slow moving. and it stays unsettled, showery and rather humid throughout next week.

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