tv Click BBC News August 29, 2020 12:30pm-1:00pm BST
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chadwick boseman, the star of the groundbreaking super—hero movie black panther, dies of colon cancer — he was a3. the fact that he chose those iconic, historical black characters and icons in history, it's testament to the kind of roles that he wanted to take and what path he was creating, or leaving behind for people coming in his wake. new advice for schools in england on what to do if there's a covid outbreak in their local area. teachers say it should have been published much earlier. several european countries are re—imposing travel restrictions and increasing safety measures, as they try to tackle a surge in new coronavirus infections. police in sydney begin patrolling beaches to enforce coronavirus regulations, as lifeguards officially return to duty. now on bbc news, click presents another chance to see our live show from v&a
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dundee. we hear about the region's pivotal role in video games and have a visit from nasa. this week, another chance to see click live 2019 in scotland. enjoy. i'm trying to give spencer direction! back up to the top, please. we just had a stagger through, which is about three hours behind schedule. hopefully, it's all going to work out in the end when we go live at five o'clock. no pressure. fingers crossed it's all going to happen. we're just changing bits. hope he doesn't mind. like that? yeah. i'm pleased with that rehearsal. are you pleased ? kind of, yeah, ijust want these to be in. they're in. 0h, they're in. it's quite nerve—racking, at this point, but i'm excited. there's a bit of a buzz on, isn't there? i've been looking forward to it for weeks. why are you guys here today?
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because ijust want to learn, really, see about all the new stuff going on. are you sure we shouldn't be there already? trust me, we're going to get there on time. but dundee is 500 miles away! the train‘s going to take hours. even a flight is going to take too lomg. there is no way. seriously, i had a word with a guy, he knows a guy and he said there's a short cut. all we need to do is use this. you need to get out more. we just need to press start. goodness, spencer, are you 0k? yeah, just... just, just go with it.
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go with what? what the...?! right, follow me. ok, this is weird. come on. are you sure this is the most direct route? pretty sure, yeah. can we at least stop and ask for directions? no need, i've got a map. it'll be fine. over here. er... um... 0h. oh, you had it upside down, didn't you? a little bit, yeah. ok, this is more like it! ah, dundee, we should only be a couple blocks away now! blocks, nice, isee what you did there! yeah, there it is. v&a dundee. both: here we come!
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from v&a dundee, this is bbc click live! please welcome your hosts, lara lewington and spencer kelly. applause yes, it's that time of year again where we leave the comfort of the click offices and go live to the world. or, at least, to a crowd of very eager tech fans. v&a dundee was the spectacular location for a show that took in everything from artificial intelligence to facial recognition. the museum not only celebrates the past, but also looks to the future. most people's idea of robots are shaped by the robots that they see in science fiction, so the kind of film or tv or video games or music. but robots are a bit more real than what we think.
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most children now will grow up will now grow up with siri or alexa, or some kind of smart helper in their life and i think, in the future, that's going to increase. we're going to have more robotic helpers helping our children and helping usjust increasingly more and more on an everyday basis. currently on display is the exhibition design between human and machine. so, rather than robots coming in and replacing us and replacing your jobs, i think the future is a bit more of an optimistic one. we've got an amazing structure commission that's been specially built here for us at v&a dundee and this is all about the idea of humans and robots collaborating together to create something amazing and wonderful, and i think that's a bit more what the future will be like. so, slightly less pessimistic than what we imagine. i hope. in recent years, dundee has become something of a digital powerhouse. it's synonymous with video games like lemmings, grand theft auto and, yes, minecraft.
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dundee has the honour, we believe, of being the city in the world with the highest count of games developers. that's come around for a number of reasons. it started off back in the 19805, there was a lot of us programming away on spectrums that happened to be made in the city, so you could always pick one up, factoring in when they went slightly wrong for less than they cost in the shops. some amazing video games came out of the city at that point. and that gave a lot of us inspiration to go and set our own companies up. the world's first video games degree was offered here by abertay university, all the way back in 1987. so, we thought we'd check out some of their more recent work. all in the name of social interaction, of course. why is abertay university so hot on games? 0h, at abertay, the staff have either previously made video games
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really fun experimental games, pushing the boundaries of computer gaming in different ways. this eerie, stifling hot landscape looks otherworldly but, in reality, we're a couple of hours‘ drive north of los angeles. this area, known as the coso range, was formed by several volcanic eruptions almost half a million years ago. back then, rivers would run through here, creating this dramatic, unpredictable terrain. now, i know we're in california, but i want you to picture somewhere completely different. i want you to imagine that i'm walking across the surface of the moon. because the technology we've come to see today is going to be put through its paces, ahead of a ground—breaking lunar mission due to take place in the next decade, one which should teach us more about the moon than we've ever known. this is a team from nasa's famous jet propulsion lab, and this is axel, a robot that might
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one day explore areas of the moon that have been untouched for billions of years. there are more than a billion dozen huge caverns found on the moon, created when lava flowed quickly over the surface and hardened, leaving a void underneath. eventually, parts of that lava surface collapsed, like a sinkhole. it's into these holes axel will dive in for a closer look at the layers of rock beneath. not only that, but the robot might discover locations suitable for human researchers to live on the moon for extended periods of time. but before that futuristic vision can be realised, axel needs to be put through its paces in california. so, this particular design you're looking at, it's a two—wheeled rover that can operate upside down or right—side up. and that's an important point in going over extreme terrain. you could be easily tipped the other way, and we want to be able to survive that.
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the other thing you'll notice, this has no steering wheels. the reason why it has two wheels is because it's differentially driven, so it can go along, you can go forward and backwards, but it can also take turns. right. and turn around. so, obviously, we're not going to test this in the parking lot here, but it does mean that we've got to go 300 metres in that direction — and the only way to do that, i'm afraid, is to carry it. this is a team which certainly knows what it's doing. they were involved in getting the incredible mars rover to the red planet. the moon may seem like a shorter, simplertrip, but going back and getting deeper could unravel important mysteries. we're specifically targeting this pit crater in the sea of tranquillity. and this is something that they discovered only a few years ago. some of the craters on the moon actually aren't your traditional impact craters, they are these very strange kind of vertical bore holes into the moon.
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and no—one is exactly sure what those are, but what we do know is that there is a lot of geological history that's exposed there on the site of this crater wall. if axel does make it to the moon, it would be attached to a lunar rover, which will land a few hundred feet away from where the team wants to explore. through that tether, axel will get its power and instructions from the team, and it will act like a rope as it abseils down into the moon's depths. today, we of course don't have the lunar rover with us, and so axel will be supported by a rock. this is tricky business. if it's not secure, we could see axel plummet to the rocks below. it's a long, slow, nervous process, with a few hiccups along the way, as axel struggled with the unforgiving volcanic terrain. but it was mission accomplished. axel was able to abseil its way down the cliffs edge, if only on earth, for now. this would be the first
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rappelling rover ever to be fielded off world. so, if we can establish that technology and we can gain confidence in that, now we can start looking at places like mars — that are a little harder to get to, but have lots of interesting questions that need answered. and if it works, there's a whole galaxy of possibilities as to where axel could go next. and if you thought that was cool, well, i was lucky enough to be joined on stage by axel‘s little brother, puffer. it's the pop—up, flat—folding explorer robot. it's fallen over on earth. it's actually designed to take impacts like that. those balloons you saw is the material that these are made out of that we've landed on mars before. ok, wow! because this looks pretty flimsy. yes. well, this is similar to a bullet—proof fabric. we take it and we fold it up, and that is that robot. and this origami shape takes the impacts very nicely. ok, so, it's tougher than it looks. now, tell me what its real—world purpose is.
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well, this basically can take any instrument. this one's for a little macro imager. so, we can do any science that you're looking to do, wherever you want to go. these aren't the only wheels we have for our two—wheel robots. ok, so, if consumers were to buy one of these — because that is the aim, isn't it? — what exactly would they be doing with it? well, we can do system science, so they can take them out into the field, they can have different sensors on them, and then we can get huge datasets that we can use to do state—of—the—art science here on earth. ok, and how much would it cost? because this looks like a fairly pricey bit of kit. this one is. it's about $5,000 for the two wheels, but we can get them down to tens of dollars. ok, quite a difference. yes. this isn't the only robot you've got with you. no, it is not. there's another one, which is literally climbing the walls. let's take a look at what we've got over here. what is this, exactly? this is our durable reconnaissance and observation platform. you can tell it's a little bit of an eye that climbs up the wall. and you can see the controls right there that can actually sense gravity. 0k.
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it's climbing the lift shaft. it's climbing quite nicely there, but what is it actually for? what is it for? so, it's for basically surveillance. this is an earth application, but the same wheels, we can put on these rovers, and we can climb 60—degree slopes on a mars analog. but you've also created something that's for digging beneath the surface. we're going to take a look at it here. the future of robotics is underground. so, this is our exobiology exta nt life surveyor, that's trying to get through the open window that cassini found on enceladus, moon of saturn, that goes right to an alien ocean. how easy to break through is that surface, do you think? this surface? well, there's these active geysers, or plume vents, that we know are sourced from the ocean. so, right here, we'll get our first taste and smell of an alien ocean. a huge thank you to you, your colleagues from nasa who also
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came and, of course, to all the bots. we've got to be nice to them, i think. applause hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the video—sharing app tiktok announced that they would be going to court to challenge a proposed ban by us president trump. a usjudge has ruled that apple can continue to block the video game fortnite from its apps store for breaking its rules — for now. and facebook has blocked access in thailand to a million—member group discussing the monarchy, after the thai government threatened legal action, as criticism of the monarchy is deemed illegal in the country. it was also the week that google unveiled a new way to get your museum fix from your own home. they've made a number of prehistoric creatures and historical artefacts available to view in augmented reality. so, you can have the apollo 11 command module in your living room. although, obviously, not to complete scale. researchers at micc cell have created a system that analyses the bounce of wireless signals ina room. by studying a preloaded floor map, rf—diary can tell what someone
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is doing, such as drinking, or playing on a laptop. and finally, a surgical robot — about the size of a tennis ball, and weighs about the same as a penny — has been created. researchers at harvard's wyss institute and sony have developed the mini—rcm. the bot can perform precise procedures such as puncturing a tube only twice the width of a human hair. it's still being tested in mock surgeries, but it could be used in real ones in the future. applause speaking. at... professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communication for those who have difficulty speaking.
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at... it's very much like the predictive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage, it can be a very slow process. minute... actually telling a story in real time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our communication aids only type eight to ten words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in a feed? annalu's team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you've typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go.
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..whole sentences to use as i speak. applause so... as humans, we always retell stories. so, what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body—worn camera observes where annalu is and who she's speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind oursystem. the camera i've got in my right hand is the one the person wears around their necks, so the camera can see what they can see. they can see the person they're speaking to. so, at the moment, it sees me. and you can see on the screen, it picks out my face to identify whether i'm a known person, whether i'm a friend, and if it knows me, who i am.
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it takes a guess from the whole environment it can see to say, where are we? are we in a cafe, at work? and this information, we then used to predict the right sentences i might want to say in this environment, with this communication partner. the more annalu uses it, the more it learns and the faster the system becomes. the system might think we're in a museum, i'm talking to a person i've never met before, that might be an opportunity to talk about my work, so it will bring up sentences i've used before to talk about my work, so i can access them timely. stories provide the fundamental essence of being human. we are our stories. we are all very boring people. laughter i mean, i know people that repeat themselves over and over.
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yes, they do! i mean, i know people that repeat themselves! we all do! laughter applause we were also lucky enough to be joined by the minister for public finance and digital economy, kate forbes, and ceo of the scottish government—backed innovation centre data lab, gillian doherty. for anybody who doesn't know what data lab do, do you just want to tell them a little about what it is, gillian? sure, so the data lab is scotland's innovation centre for data science and artificial intelligence. and ultimately, it's about driving value for the whole country by leveraging our data better. and you've already done some really life—changing partnerships, haven't you? tell me about the cancer one. we have, yes. so, we've been working with the beatson's cancer hospital on using computer vision technology to help the radiologists feel any tumours from healthy tissues
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in complex neck cancers. we've also worked across multiple of the health boards using data to improve patient experience measures and outcome measures, and integrate that with the clinical treatment as part of their, unfortunately, cancer journey. but looking at some of the issues that are in scotland today, high unemployment is of course one of them, how do you perceive technology affecting that? because, obviously, there are pros and cons. that's right, and technology's definitely going to disrupt the job market as we know it. but on the other hand, we also know that the technology sector in scotland is constantly looking for new skills and talent. so, ourjob is to match the people that are currently looking for work with the businesses and the organisations that are looking for those skills. jobs will change. there are jobs that we do now that didn't exist 20, 30, 40 years ago. and depending on the research you read for our primary children, up to 60% of those children that are starting school right now will have jobs that don't even exist just now. so, it's hard to get your mind around that, but whose grandmother was a search
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engine optimisation specialist? whose grandpa was a vlogger? and you are two women working in technology. do you really think that things are changing? very, very slowly. so, they are changing and we're seeing that in scotland, because closing the gender gap is key to what we're trying to achieve. but it's about going into primary schools and encouraging young women, girls, to think that they can actually work in this sector and work in this area and see incredible role models. now, we all know about cars and pollution, right? but how about a vehicle where, the more you drive it, the cleaner it makes the air? well, the hyundai nexo claims to do just that. where you would normally have an engine, there is a fuel cell stack, where hydrogen and oxygen combine to create the electricity that powers the car and charges the battery. but can it actually clean the air?
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well, we braved the very cold dundee air to put it to the test. so, over here, we have robin hayles, from hyundai. hi. hi, what's going to happen? so, we're going to demonstrate how the filtration system of the hyundai nexo cleans the air as it drives long. what we're going to do is, we've got a pump here, which we're going to add. this is a jar of pmio and pm2.5 particulate. nasty stuff! yeah, this is the stuff that comes out of trucks, cars, buses as they're driving along. so, soot and carbon, and stuff like that? yes, yeah. all right, so no sniffing that, then, while we open the jar. we're going to bung that in now, aren't we? yes, my colleague, mr shin here, is going to add that to the system. 0k. keep your eye on what happens to the air as we do it. you will see there, you see the soot
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goes into the balloon. wow! look at that, that looks filthy! imagine what would happen if you held this piece of white paper up to the exhaust of your petrol car. it's going to get pretty grey, isn't it? here it is. grease. argh! yeah, that's quite satisfying, actually. get as much air onto that as possible, and let'sjust see. smells all right, i have to say. all right, let's have a look. show that to the camera. that's marvellous. so, pretty much... yeah, there's pretty much nothing on there, so that's good. we've also, we can show you what the car has filtered out of the air. so, let's have the clean filter in. this is what the filter looked like when it went into the car. we've taken this one out of the car now. and, hmm. can you see the difference? yeah. so, that's what it's sucked out of the air in the last two or three minutes? yeah, that's all the particulates out of the air. so, everything in thatjar is now in that filter. nice. now, there's one other thing that hydrogen cars produce, and that's water vapour,
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which you're assuring me is very, very clean, is that right? it's very clean. i'll show you how clean. all right, so we're going to get a glass of water — or as it's known in dundee, ice — out of the ball. and you think that is very, very clean water? yeah, that's pure water. so this isn't tap water, this isn't bottled water you get in a shop, this is 100% pure water. and robin assures me it's so pure that you can drink it and you don't keel over. so, er... well, go on, then, you said it. go on, give us a... ugh! a bit plasticky, but better than some supermarket bottles. three, two, one, push! back inside, and a click live show wouldn't be a click live show without waving, shouting and generally getting a bit overexcited. cheering all that remains is to thank everyone who turned up to see us
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go, go, go, go! yes! applause hello, are distinctly cool weekend for late august. not a huge amount of sunshine to begin with, but parts of sunshine to begin with, but parts of wales faring quite well so far today come up with a few showers further west. because much of the east of the uk and particularly the eastern side of england, cloud cover, a bit of rain to come as well because you are closest to this area of low pressure. still quite windy around that even though it is pulling away. further to the west of the uk, there is an area of high pressure moving in and settling
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things down. so from low pressure across central and eastern england for the remainder of the day, a lot of cloud, some outbreaks of rain showers and a brisk northerly wind. further north and west, we have some sunny spells around with a few showers in northern scotland, parts of northern ireland and the far west of northern ireland and the far west of wales and intercom. a chilly breeze wherever you are, but the wind gusts around the eastern side of england 30 to a0 file —— a0 mph and stronger in coastal areas where temperatures are in the mid to low teens. and nowhere is particularly warm this weekend, even where you do get to see some sunshine. still some outbreaks of rain or showers towards parts of eastern and south england overnight can still quite windy here. still a few showers around northern scotland and may be the west of northern ireland. away from the cloudy and windy parts of eastern england, it is a chilly night, sheltered glens in scotland won't be too far away from freezing as we start the day tomorrow. still one or two as we start the day tomorrow. still one oi’ two showers as we start the day tomorrow. still one or two showers around scotland and northern ireland, but tomorrow, any and northern ireland, but tomorrow, a ny early and northern ireland, but tomorrow, any early rain towards the far south
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east of england, especially kent, clears away, still quite windy but that wouldn't slowly ease and most of us have a dry sunday afternoon with a mixture of cloud and sunny spells —— but the wind slowly ease. but still distinctly cool for the last weekend of august. going into the cricket, hope for some better conditions compared with a wash—out we had on friday at old trafford. so for tomorrow, there looks to be a dry day with sunny spells, but not very warm. high pressure holds for many on monday, the bank holiday exceptin many on monday, the bank holiday except in scotland, this where the front looks as though it were cloud things up across western parts of the uk. gradually during the day. it could well beat we see patchy light rain in parts of northern ireland for the day. you start with sunshine elsewhere, some cloud will build, but most stay dry.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. tributes are paid to chadwick boseman, the star of the groundbreaking super—hero movie black panther, who has died of colon cancer — he was a3. the fact that he chose those iconic, historical black characters and icons in history, it's testament to the kind of roles he wanted to take and what path he was creating, or leaving behind, for people in his wake. new advice for schools in england on what to do if there's a covid outbreak in their local area. teachers say it should have been published much earlier. several european countries are re—imposing travel restrictions and increasing safety measures as they try to tackle a surge in new coronavirus infections. top flight football gets underway
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