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now it's time for click. this week. fact—checking the presidential contenders. stormzy taking us for a ride on his hometown. and chris takes us for a ride through his kitchen. welcome to click. i hope you're well. as we head into autumn, the world has some pretty big milestones ahead of us. in the short term, the us election. the election of the moment always feels like the biggest yet. but this comes at the time when trust in politics and politicians is at a real low. the final presidential debate has

now taken place and the idea is that these debates should tell voters about the candidatesh' policies, and help them to make an informed decision at the ballot box. but as well as becoming big, mudslinging, shouty arguments, the rallies and debates have also been riddled with untruths. we live in a time when disinformation is dividing and entrenching us, to the point where it is threatening democracies around the world. if you cannot believe what you see, read and hear, including what comes out of politicians‘ mouths, how can you make the right decision? it has become such a widespread issue that some organisations now have dedicated fact—hecking services and there are companies around the world whose sole job is to spot the lies.

but keeping up with the volume of misinformation out there is a hard task. meet a member of a team of fact—checkers were recently tasked with monitoring the debate live. but not all of her team members were human. you need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly. sorting truths from half—truth to complete fabrication is very time—consuming, so she had help from an ai algorithm. if i were to manually fact—check a claim, it would take me on average two to three hours. which is minimum, because we have to manually check all of the sources, make sure our sources are reliable. but when the ai steps in, our time is reduced by almost 70 to 80%. so, we can turn a claim around and about 15 to 20 minutes, and so that reliable information

is spreading as soon as possible. the first presidential debate was the team's first chance to work with a live video feed using the software. over the last four years, you have promised to repeal and replace 0bamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan... the human and ai combination were able to fact—check 27 claims made by candidates. the software performed two tasks. first, it turned what was said into text. that is simply not true. which was no easy feat, so it did get a few things wrong. but for those it did manage to capture, it would then consult its huge database of pre—established facts that it had pulled out of thousands of articles from trusted sources. the forest fires in the west are raging now and they have

burned millions of acres. 0ver millions were checked and verified by a machine alone. 0ur confidence score is 0.9. this means that the ai has also put in a link against which the extracted claim matches perfectly. even when the ai is fairly confident of its findings, they check the results before they are published. for half of the remaining claims, the ai still returns results with less certainty, and so they had to pass their expert eyes over the source material first. the ai really struggled with eight out of the 27 claims which had to be fact—checked completely by hand. this process still takes a little while, anything from two minutes up to more than 90 minutes for claims that have never been made before. so, i asked the man behind logically whether a late—breaking truth would allow the lie

to have its impact. when you are putting your whole weight behind a claim and saying that this is true or false or based on presently available information unverifiable, some things you gaine with latency, but they are not worth losing by getting things wrong every now and then. a recent cambridge university graduate and she knows first—hand how misinformation can risk lives. my grandmother passing away prematurely. she read somewhere that if she gave up her meds that were prescribed to her from a proper doctor and started drinking this specialjuice of some kind, that she would live longer and she would have a pain—free death, etc. and obviously that was all false. and apart from the health risks misinformation pose, the stories are a big political

events in the past few years convinced and something had to be done. regardless of the outcome above the specific democratic events. it felt process—wise, something was breaking with how we as individuals interacted with information online, and how we were all being shoved into various filter bubbles and echo chambers digitally, and these certainly were impacting the decisions that we were making in our personal lives, but also important decisions that were making a society. for now, fact—checking services have become essential in this fight. but the defining change will ultimately come when the social networks are more able to stop this stuff from going viral in the first place. i think it is time for a bit of star power.

what do you reckon, lara? are you up for a bit of star dust? 0h, definitely. now, many a rock star and musician has swapped the mic for a go at being a movie star. madonna has done it, mickjagger has done it, beyonce too. but these days, video games are bigger than music and film combined. so no surprise one of the most famous names have appeared in games. stormzy is one of the most successful names in the music industry right now. but he is going to be swapping his next gig from the stage at glastonbury, to the virtual streets of london in a video game. we met stormzy to chat about a game set in his hometown, and how the art form has grown up and is now tackling material that talks to the troubled times that we live in. multi—award—winning rapper stormzy‘s new single rainfall has a video with a bit of a difference. (music.

it features the croydon musician as a video game character performing inside an actual game. i'm about to meet stormzy in the flesh. the game he is appearing in is set in the nearfuture london, and has themes of protest and resistance. i am keen to find out if he thinks this video game has any parallels with things that are going on in 2020. one of the game's main themes is about ordinary people banding together to resist and to fight back against an oppressive regime. do you think that is saying anything about the world that we live in right now? it is very reflective of the times in the sense of, yeah, we, as people, need to be coming together. do you know what i mean?

that captures that perfectly in the sense of like, your everyday person being more important than they realise, you know. so, yeah, definitely. a third—person action title, watchdogs legion takes place in a dystopian version of a future london, a state controlled by corrupt corporate interests. the player can recruit and control any of the thousands of characters they encounter on london's streets. performing missions that will ultimately bring down the authoritarian regime. all right, everyone! stormzy plays a version of himself and in this fictional world, he is a rapper whose message of resistance is transmitted via a pirated video signal. he spent three days being performance captured at the toronto studio. so, follow the gps, that should take you there. whoa, whoa. stormz, what are you doing? riding recklessly. 0n the back of there...

it is so london. is it special being in the game that is set in london? it's the most. i am london. london is me. like i am a proper london boy through and through. and so, it's my city and i love it dearly. it is a big part of me as a man and an artist and my character. this is mad. my bank is up there, literally. if i turn... for people that don't know london, that's coutts and co. the same bank as her majesty the queen! bro, that is me. that is more me than a flipping picture. this is mental! stormzy is not the only musician in a video game, he joins a long list of other artists that include the likes of 50 cent.

and who could forget david bowie? you are not the first video game player to get your soul trapped. some efforts could be put down to cashing in on star power to shift games. but sometimes as about an artist experimenting with the new medium. and there are some points of convergence between the two art forms. there is a long history of music being used for protest and to provoke thought about things that are going on in the world today. do you think that video games have the power to do that as well? 100 million %. any platform whatever way, shape orform, or whatever mediums we use as creatives and artists, it's a platform to speak out against injustice, for it to be like pillars of truth or whatnot. especially with video games. even down to the reach of video games is astronomical. yeah, 100%.

especially with the times we are in, anything can be a platform to speak out. away from games and your music career, your bursaries to universities like to do the things that you're doing? i feel so blessed. i have so many platforms and so much reach, and i feel that it is my duty and responsibility to share what i have. so there is something wrong, that there is something that we need to think about things a little bit differently? these things are set up to address the uneven and injustices in a lot of these areas of society. so, there's so many other people of influence or artists or public figures doing these things to try to just, to uplift those who needed a bit.

from best—selling grime artist to glastonbury headliner, and now taking on the world of games. the south london star continues to shine. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the us government filed a lawsuit against google, accusing the company of violating competition law over internet searches and the online advertising. two million ads pricking political campaigning rules attaching false information warnings to a further 150 million posts. and afterjust six months, video streaming service quibi is shutting down. the start—up raised almost $2 billion for its launch, but suffered disappointing download and viewership numbers. it was also the week that nasa selected nokia to build a wireless 4g network on the moon.

the proposed cellular network is part of a plan to establish a long—term human presence on the moon by 2030. developers of the covid—i9 contract tracing app for england and wales reassured users that none of their data will be shared with the police. this followed news that contact details of people told to self—isolate by the nhs test and trace scheme in england are shared with the police on a case—by—case basis. developers say that the app operates independently of this system. and finally, with would you fancy a new dress that changes with the seasons? researchers at yale have developed the fabric with sensors and variable stiffness fibres that show the fabric responding to changes in temperature. when the fabric is cool, the particles stiffen, and in warm weather, they become almost liquid and soften the fabric. while microsoft and sony are racing

to be crowned champion in the next generation console wars. nintendo has done something very nintendo and said, never mind that ultra high—definition gaming, how about some augmented reality racing cars? this is mario kart live home circuit, which takes the best—selling nintendo game and turns your house into the race track. and the way this works pretty clever. it contains a camera that streams live footage of your living room to the nintendo switch console which you use as the remote control. you can set them up around your home and whatever configuration space will allow you to form your racetrack. the software can recognise the gates as you drive through them, creating the course as you go. you also give his cardboard barriers with arrows that will augmented with animations.

once you are set up, and it's like a regular game of mario kart. but it's all taking place of your own living room. you can also race up to four of these karts together to play multiplayer your living room if you got the space, but it will need a nintendo switch console for each one. it goes without saying that you need a fair bit of space to set this up. but you can arrange it in a modest—sized living room and that is because even though on screen it looks like the karts are zooming around the racetrack, in the real world, the kart isjust trundling around the living room fairly slowly. it can also make some pretty sharp turns, so you can set it up in a smaller room. although i think you get more out of this the more space. there are some limitations to the software. not all the power—ups work in the way you expect them to in a regular mario kart game. you cannot hold a banana behind your kart to protect yourself from shells. even though bullet bill does steer you around the track automatically,

which i think is quite impressive, it cannot detect obstacles, and you end up crashing quite a lot. so, the augmented reality layer doesn't handle occlusions. so it is always overlaid on top of the camera feed. so, here the track should disappear behind the table leg, it doesn't, and that means you tend to crash more than you would expect, although that is a part of the madness and we do crash, your character reacts on screen. the big question for all augmented reality applications is how much do you actually get out of this once you are over that initial moment of "this is cool"? most of the players i know are still playing pokemon go and have turned off the camera effects because, even though they look cool, they ultimately add very little to the gameplay. and i think that may also be the issue here. but, with all augmented reality games, how is is this better than playing the consul game? ultimately i think it is not. it's just different. it is a different take on mario kart and i think that's fine. hard to say whether this will have the same enduring appeal as the traditional console game, but mario kart is the best—selling game of the nintendo switch,

and if any franchise can take on a mainstream, it is probably mario kart. turning his floor into a race track. how cool was that? brilliant. and because we cannot all go out as much as we would like to, our homes have had to become our cinemas, our workspaces and our playgrounds. that is what lara has been looking at this week. all you need is a projector. there also some quirkier options as well as some that will provide cinema on go. it wasn't long ago that the idea of a turning any surface into a touch—screen basically like a tablet would have seen the stuff of science fiction. but that is what this does. take a look at this. this hachi infinite mi projector. it uses deep learning, gesture controls, object recognition,

and what it calls skeleton recognition, to be able to identify and focus on its surface as well as respond to a human‘s touch. i was not holding out high hopes for the accuracy, especially when it came to typing on a keyboard like this. but actually, i found it was pretty good. the system runs on android and can be pared with an android or i0s device. as well as being able to search the web and use built—in apps, there is in an ai powered education to with letters and blocks that it can recognise. a kitchen function is coming soon too, as well as a fitness feature that is being claimed to track your moves, letting you know whether they are right or not. you can also use it to project on a wall. but when you do that, you no longer have the touch control available. it also is to be very close to a wall because if you do too far

away, you accidentally shine it on the ceiling, you do wonder what is going on. that is just wrong. though it is quite cool. imagine turning up at your friend's house with this. no, it is not a drinks cooler. it is a 4k projector, and pretty much everything you need should be built into the box. it streams the content and has high—quality speakers. you can even operate it through alexa or google home using your voice. this vibrantly projects a million pixels. the speakers provide clear, crisp sound, but maybe not up to the volume that the picture might beckon. in a device that is trying to do so much, setting it up to achieve full functionality did feel overcomplicated though. and clearly, the standout feature here is that it is a portable 4k projector. at the lower end of the scale s this pocket projector which can connect directly to wi—fi or your phone,

maybe you want to do a slide show or it can double up as a speaker. at the other end of the market, your expectations do you need to be managed. getting set up a simple, with a dial to focus and the ability to deal with a range of file types. i did start to have a few few issues. some glitches with the app. but the sound quality is different and it is a versatile device and at this point, it is ok. and here's one for the kids. it comes with a parent portal so the parents can keep an eye on what children are watching. and prevent them seeing anything that they should. and if a child comes than 60 cm of the light here, it automatically turns to protect their little eyes. it also has all of the streaming services built in. as well as the ability to connect via hdmi, usbc, or bluetooth,

providing a screen of up to 100 inches. it is a small but solid device. the set up and use of streaming apps is really slick. the picture quality is sharp and the sound was pretty decent for the speakers. but, the price is high, and for a device aimed at kids, it is may be too high. there you have it. a few of the latest ways of bringing entertainment home. unless, you'd rather entertain yourself to spend your hard—earned cash on a virtual screen. that projected touch—screen was amazing. yes, it got far more attention in my house the most of the gadgets i am testing. my husband was fascinated. my daughter played noughts and crosses. i'm sorry you haven't had a chance to play. one day. from projecting things on the services to projecting things into the sky with lasers. back injune, we told you that this

laser maestro had been showing his appreciation to carers and nhs staff by projecting love and thanks across his home city of brighton. after a trial earlier this month, laser light city is happening this weekend in leeds. but cities under lockdown and local autumn light shows unable to happen, the idea here is that 25 lasers mounted on buildings around the city will put on a show that residents can see regardless of restrictions on social gatherings. seb created all the control software himself. but this is an interactive show, meaning thousands of people were able to log on to a special website and take control of the lasers. changing the colour, shapes and direction of the beams which can be seen up to ten miles away. as the dark nights draw in, seb is hoping he can light up more cities, and bring a little laser sparkle to these unusual autumn evenings. we are normally talking about fireworks at this time of year.

anyway, that is it for this week. you can find the team online throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thank you for watching, and we will see you soon. bye— bye. hello, very windy start to the weekend out there as heavy rain spreads south—east across the uk. this is what it looked like in eastern scotland this morning that scotla nd eastern scotland this morning that scotland and northern ireland are behind the weather system with afternoons to these bells is heavy even at times torrential rain spreads across england and wales. tomorrow, low pressure close by, still blustery out there with sunshine and showers. there heaviest of this rain will be into east

anglia and south—east england for this evening. torrential burst of rain, wind gusts around 50 to 60 mph in some places before easing. blustery overnight across the uk, plenty of showers coming in towards the west, clearer spells to the east and a few spots in north—east scotland. temperatures into the low single figures. don't forget, the clocks go back on our overnight at the end of british summer time. nothing to do with the weather. sunshine and showers tomorrow, most of the showers will be on the west and through southern england, heavy, possibly thundery, chance of hail as well. 12 showers will trickle further east but for the east midlands, yorkshire, north—east england and eastern scotland, fewer, if any showers, more in the way of sunshine. wherever you are, it is blustery, these are average speeds, gusts widely 30 to a0 mph, nearly 50 in the western isles, and temperatures are not down compared with today, particularly through central and eastern parts of

england. into sunday evening, no great change, plenty of showers through southern england and into the west stays blustery into monday, the west stays blustery into monday, the area of low pressure just crossing the uk, because that means there will be further showers. it looks like most of them on monday will be affecting northern ireland, initially wales and west in england and through the channel coast but some will push further east through england and wales during the day. if the low is in the position we think it will be in on monday, a spell of lighter winds and dry weather for a time in scotland and no great change in the temperatures. going into tuesday, the could be some mist and fog patches to start the day, chilly start for some, a bit of an all in a weather overnight into tuesday before we see another band of rain spreading across the uk on tuesday and once again, the winds will start to pick up. stays windy for the rest of the week, always close by, producing further spells of rain or showers. that she forecast.

good afternoon. millions of people across the uk have begun their first full day of tighter coronavirus restrictions. a so—called firebreak lockdown began in wales last night. south yorkshire moved into england's top level — tier 3 — just after midnight leading to the closure of those pubs and bars not serving meals. the labour mayor of sheffield city region said the government must outline a "clear and transparent" exit strategy from the highest tier

of covid restrictions.