twitter accounts affected included president obama, joe biden, elon musk, kim kardashian, kanye west and bill gates. twitter said it was aware of a security incident impacting accounts and were investigating it. the body of tech ceo and entrepreneur fahim saleh was found apparently decapitated and dismembered in a flat in new york. mr saleh was the founder of bangladesh—based pathao and nigerian motorbike—sharing startup gokada. mit csail team demonstrated a robotic gripper with soft, sensistive fingers handling cables with dexterity. the team anticipates future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. finally, another robot companion made its debut this week. meet stretch rel designed by an ex—google employee, the 23—kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog. stretch is the first machine released by hello robot.

now i don't know about you, but as face coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. this slides off my nose, this one is baggy around the ears. so could a personalised sd printed one like this be the solution? out of the covid we have seen a few companies coming up with 3d printed solutions but one common problem we find is that these masks are not customised so they are a universal size and shape. not these however. this imperial college london research project re—purposes custom—fit 3d printed masks, a concept they were originally working on for people suffering with sleep apnoea. now they hope to create perfect fitting respirators at a time when it seems we could be wearing them a lot.

and all you need to get started is a smart phone. first i need to do is scan my face. there are a couple of ios apps that seem to work to do this. the first is scandy pro. i'm going to have to hold very still. although it was a little fiddly to get the image right, i'm told that this app is especially accurate. there is also bellus3d which i thought was simpler to use and virtual me did look pretty realistic. i guess i'll just find out how the mask fits when it actually arrives. currently you do need an iphone 10 or above to carry out this process but alternatives are being looked into, including some for android users. job done. you then upload your scan to the mensura mask website. specially—created code is used

to extract the necessary data and that is sent to autodesk‘s fusion 360 platform to tweak and rebuild the model to fit your face. this should provide you with a free file of your mask to print. now assuming you do not have a 3d printer in your living room, there are plenty of companies out there that can print it for you at the cost of around a fiver. but while we might all like a better—fitting mask that does not steam up our glasses, the real aim of this project is a much bigger picture. right now, the masks that you can wear are just as good as a face covering if not better. but as we get better, as we get the technology more mature, we will go through the certification process to check that the materials are safe and check the filters work properly. of course, the outcome of each individual mask will notjust depend on an accurate scan but also the quality of the 3d printing.

so the mask has arrived. can we have the grand unveiling? ta—da! wow! that is quite space age, actually. how does it feel? how does it fit? it definitely fits well. i can feel it is absolutely moulded to my face and i think it would be ok with glasses, no steaming up. but bizarrely, my ears keep popping. i can tell it is really airtight because your voice hardly makes it out of the mask. can you breathe? that is a filter in the end, isn't it? it is and these filters need changing every day but they are standard ones you can buy online and the whole mask can be fully disinfected. is it comfortable? it certainly fitjust right and the edges do feel quite soft so i think if i worked in a job where i had to wear this all day then i could see the benefit. but it does feel a little over the top to just go and buy some groceries.

right. let's move on. now because the e3 videogames mega trade show was cancelled this year, games companies have been doing their launches at online events instead. and last week saw one of the biggest online showcases, the ubisoft forward event but it coincided with three of the company's executives having to resign over an investigation into sexual misconduct. for years the gaming world has been overshadowed by examples of abuse and toxic behaviour. and we report now on how it is not just the pandemic disrupting the videogames industry. games megapublisher ubisoft is currently mired in an abuse scandal centred around its studios. the company put out a tweet before its latest online showcase, acknowledging that it would not be addressing these issues during its event. more on this later. at the event itself, the company did reveal the casting of giancarlo esposito, of breaking bad and better call saul

fame, as the villain in the latest far cry title. esposito has been cast as a dictator called anton castillo, the ruler of a fictious fighter in the first—person shooter far cry 6. the player assumes the role of a guerilla fighter attempting to take down the dictator and his government from the island's jungles to the streets of its capital city. i spoke with the actor about donning a performance capture rig to create a villain who is more than a searingly chilling end of level boss. you have played several characters in recent years who had a quiet menace about them. did you bring that to this game or did you go in a different direction? i always believe that quiet menaces and a reflective menace is the most frightening menace. so you doubt me. good art often makes us think about our world and what is going on in our own lives. do you think this game has the potential to affect the player in that way?

oh, my goodness! what a great question. i do. i feel like this storyline is really powerful and without giving anything away it is about relationships. father and son. everything ifeel like i do has some sort of social imprint. my guess is that some of the stuff i thank god that i have been involved with, such as better call saul, the show i do, and breaking bad, godfather of harlem, those statements are in these projects. and there is certainly a statement you can find in this game. what did you think of the virtual version of you created for the game? i was blown away. i sat there amazed. i argued, told them they were full of garbage! if that is me, why not just film me?! we all go boom. we are yet to see any gameplay but the title is slated for release

in february 2021. but recent real—world events at ubisoft have cast a shadow over the compa ny‘s activities. over the past couple of weeks, many women and other people working in the games industry have come forward with stories about workplace bullying or harassment and that runs the gamut from toxic workplace culture right through to sexual harassment and quite early in this wave, ubisoft‘s name started coming up again and again. this has led to dismissals and resignation with two senior executives resigning in a third leaving their post. ubisoft gave us this comment. these recent claims describe workplace behaviours that are simply unacceptable. we do not and will not tolerate abuse, harassment or discrimination ofany kind. upon learning of these allegations we immediately launched independent investigations and have already announced a series of measures aimed at driving profound changes within the company as well as several significant personnel changes.

the problem with a lot of creative industries, not just games, is where you have superstar creative people who are seen as untouchable and indispensable to their companies and sometimes that can create an environment in which those people feel they can get away with anything. ubisoft is not the only publisher with workplace problems. last year ryder ggames came into the spotlight. there was a lawsuit launched against them by ex—employees alleging sexist discrimination at that workplace. the cause ripples throughout the game industry. as we approach the next console generation and videogames achieve ever greater technical and artistic heights, it seems the games industry still has work to do with how it conducts its affairs in the real world. that was mark and that is it for this week. as ever you can keep up with the team throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at bbcclick. thank you for watching.

mask up if you are asked and we will see you next week. hello there. a good chunk of england and wales enjoyed sunny skies on friday, and in that sunshine, it was pretty warm. temperatures reached 29 degrees celsius towards london and south—east england. and then it was a sunny end to what's been a pretty cloudy week. further north—west, though, we had some cooler and fresher air. and what separated the hot from the cooler was this weather front. it brought some rain to parts of northern england, north wales, northern ireland, too. and the front itself, this area of cloud, stretches quite a long way out into the atlantic,

and indeed, we've got this bump on the cloud just here. that's known as a wave, and what that will do is it essentially will stop the weather front from moving very far very fast. so, small changes in the forecast as we get on through saturday. it means over the next few hours, we'll continue to see some rain across northern england, north wales, with rather misty conditions over the hills, a lot of low cloud. to the north of this, a few showers in scotland, a few clear spells as well. and to the south of our front, it's a warm night, temperatures around 15 degrees in cardiff and london. now, into saturday itself, this weather front‘s still with us, slow—moving. the rain turns a bit heavier for a time late morning, north wales, northern areas of england. but you can see all the while, the front doesn't really move very far very fast, so still bringing some damp weather to wales, northern england, the north midlands into the afternoon. south—east of our front, i think the temperatures could well reach the high 20s in the hottest

spots, but further north and west, we've got that cooler and fresher feel to the weather. now, for the test match in manchester, well, it's not looking great, really. it's a damp morning here. the rain slowly easing off, i think, as we head through the day, but there will be some disruptions to play here. now, through saturday evening and overnight, here is the same weather front only slowly moving down towards the south—east. so, on sunday, we will have a change in the weather pattern across east anglia, south—east england, a cloudy start to the day with rain at times. behind that front, brighter skies work in with some sunshine and a few showers into the north—west of scotland. what you will notice, though, particularly across the south east of england and east anglia, is a fresher feel to the weather. those temperatures back down generally into the high teens to low 20s. now, beyond that, looking at the forecast into next week, high pressure looks set to build in, particularly across southern areas, so some dry and bright weather with some sunshine. turning a bit warmer as well as the week goes by. that's your latest forecast. bye for now.

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