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there it is now resumed. the wife of rishi sunak says she will now pay uk taxes on her overseas income at illegally avoiding it for years. —— after legally avoiding it for years. now time for click. this week, were going up a mountain with this good girl. and the vfx behind the matrix resurrections. they are breathtaking! mobile world congress. every year, barcelona used to be lit up with smartphone launches and announcements of connected devices, beyond what you might ever think of or need.

now, 2020 was pretty much a no—show, for obvious reasons, and last year — well, that was just weird. we've arrived. this is fira de barcelona. yes, the show was back on, but we couldn't go — although you were there in spirit, if not in body. yeah, the less said about that, the better. but this year, it's back in full swing with all sorts of companies showing off their latest wares. so, whilst i'm here at the design museum in london, where behind me, there's a good old—fashioned brick phone and a nokia 3310 — remember those? — we know how fast these phones change, so we've sent omar mehtab and osman iqbal to barcelona. samsung, nokia, huawei, oppo, xiaomi — they're all here and all got something to show. that's the thing about mwc, isn't it? it's all about the big releases. say, for example, this — the samsung s22 ultra. the supposedly best of their s22

range, it comes with a touch bigger screen than its predecessor, a slightly more powerful cpu and a bigger sensor, so its cameras can take better pictures in low light. but they have learnt from the s21 ultra, because instead of flogging a 60 quid case to house the optional s pen, they'vejust given it to you, in here, and they've got a little slot for it within the phone, which potentially spells the end of the note series? who knows. but what i can say is this does write smooth. you know, like a pen on paper. the problem is in some tests, the battery life is actually a little bit worse than the s21 ultra and its square design doesn't feel as natural in your hand, either. and at 1,200 quid, you wonder if it's worth the huge price tag with such little differences. but it pairs well with this — the newly announced galaxy book 2 pro. this is the most powerful of its line—up, the 360, and it starts at around 1,099 quid. it offers a few interesting titbits,

like a 1080p front—facing camera and auto framing, which keeps you centred in your shot — for your video calls that undoubtedly became more popular over the last two years. can't find me! there it is! it's found me! but the multi control impressed the most, where you can keep watch of your smartphone and also use your tab s8 as a second screen, creating quite an ecosystem. samsung stands for innovation, you know? typically where we lead, others follow. bringing all of those the elements of the note and bringing them to the s22 because we listened to our customers — they wanted that productivity, they wanted that solution from us. innovation and what our consumers tell us they want will be at the absolute heart of what we do going forward. and here's the problem. that's it. with smartphones, we've been held in a kind of a holding pattern for years with only incremental upgrades every release. once you've seen one, you've seen them all, and despite how impressive these handsets are, it's all kind of predictable. here's another example.

huawei's latest p50 pro is just another smartphone with small upgrades since the last. and this super device software, which they announced at the show, is, again, incredible, but just another ecosystem they've built to bow against the likes of apple and samsung. look, here's the point i'm trying to make, ok? here are some releases from some of the big companies. and here are the notable improvements from their predecessors — camera quality, battery life, screen size. is that all we've got to look forward to anymore? ok, yes, in recent times, we've had some exciting innovations, like the foldable or the rollable smartphones. one noticeable trend is cheaper, but feature—packed phones, like from xiaomi here, or going a bit more retro again, like nokia. but otherwise, it'sjust variations of the same thing, and has been since apple debuted the iphone 15 years ago. giant screen.

applause can we really call that innovation? is there a point to mwc if all you're going to do is go and look at a phone and say, "oh, look — that camera lens is bigger." there's innovation in the form factor, but there's all in — also innovation in the connectivity and the content. we've seen the content ecosystem basically develop over the last years as well, so i think with every touch point that the — that the phone essentially enables, you'll also find subsequent innovation come from that. ok, yes, innovations involving phones, but not the phone itself. look, it's no—one�*s fault, but the next killer device just hasn't arrived yet, and so, it's all a bit samey. so, maybe it's not worth coming to mwc again. there's nothing really special out on show. it's not just about the glitzy phone launches, is it? it's not just shiny things. there's a big mobile ecosystem and loads happening. i get that, but people care about the big phone launches.

you don't get that, though, do you? what they may upgrade to next — that's what matters here to people. is that what matters?! of course it is! there's loads of stuff going on! you know, there's loads kind of innovation, small players, big players. i'll show you something so intense. cheer up! so, what are these companies working on in 2022? sg bartenders, robot dogs, vr roller—coasters and, you guessed it, the metaverse! and as i finally get back to an in—person event, i'm being made very aware that companies are eager for me to embrace the virtual world. but here's one device that is 100% metaverse—proof. as screens get bigger and bigger, what happens if you make a phone with no screen at all? no buttons, no screen, purely voice controlled. put it on and, sayonara, social media. these are titan from mymanu. they are lig—enable earbuds with a phone's functionality, and they can even translate other

languages in almost real—time while not needing to connect to a phone like most other devices. why don't you tell me an interesting fact about yourself? speaks french. so, you're french, you're from the sunny coast and you live in manchester, where it rains all the time. exactly. that's cool. that is awesome, that is awesome — i love that. and whilst one company is ditching the screen, the astro slide 56 is adding even more to it. a regular rectangular phone — where is the innovation? watch this. boom! it's a mechanical keyboard on a phone! and whilst i may enjoy a keyboard on a phone, it doesn't exactly scream rock star. but this does. zurich—based start—up mictic have developed what they are calling audio—augmented reality.

these wristbands connect to a smartphone app and the sensors translate your motions into music. when you think of a cello, here's the neck of the cello and then my right hand is the bow hand, so it would essentially be like... plays cello. that's all very cultured but, let's be honest, nobody plays the air cello. i'll throw a beat behind it. now, i can start really rocking out. plays electric guitar. but the final word has to go to japanese company toraru who have found a truly novel way of transporting people to the other side of the world. this is a live video link to japan. someone is standing there with a tablet and you have these buttons along the bottom and all you do, if you want to turn around, you just press your button. look at that!

you can even push buttons to pick things up or even pay for goods. but some parts do feel a bit dehumanising. and i feel super guilty about this — is this button here. and i don't know why, but you can go boop! and they jump! that was a big jump! the buttons that make other humans jump should just not exist. osman and omar, ola! it sounds like some companies are breaking new ground there, so has the visit to the show been worth it? for me? no, it hasn't, because it's the same as every other mwc that i've been to. a new smartphone with a couple of improvements from the last one. see, that's absolutely not true! i've been trying to tell omar all along it's notjust- about these devices, _ it's about the wider ecosystem. we've seen the metaverse and the advancement - in connectivity needed. that conversation is happening. 56 low latency, things that are around the phone — - that's where the innovation will happen. _ but there's nothing to see.

there is no metaverse as yet, that's the point. yeah, it — because it- needs these conferences like this to sit down, _ get it done, advances connectivity. it's not just about that. but the reason people care about these conferences is because of the smartphones, the main devices. not secondary things, you know? it's all about the smartphones. ok, you're like an old married couple. he's such a pessimist! i'm going to leave you to keep battling this out. you are such a pessimist! we've got the optimist and the pessimist here. osman and omar, thank you. hello and welcome to your weekly tech news round—up. ayers had to blast away their shields with fireballs. it was really fun. six years on, this is a serious sport played in 20 countries. now, i have been invited

back to play against a former uk champion in a match with a difference. see, tom parker is not in this and it's being connected with 56 in this and it's being connected with 5g and this is an occasion where any delay across the network can seriously screw things up. most --eole can seriously screw things up. most peeple think _ can seriously screw things up. most people think about _ can seriously screw things up. most people think about 56 _ can seriously screw things up. iu"ir>3t people think about 56 as arriving people think about 5g as arriving data. as to arrive on the right order and quickly. could have done with a bit of lag, to be honest. it's like they've just attached it to a cat or something down there. we to a cat or something down there. - heard on matches in the uk between different cities. we are looking at doing matches between european countries because a session at the moment travellers difficult. we want players to play and train against each other. that means we can get teams in tokyo who are best in the world without question to trainers without having to go there. find world without question to trainers without having to go there. and the reason we are _ without having to go there. and the

reason we are here _ without having to go there. and the reason we are here is _ without having to go there. and the reason we are here is to _ without having to go there. and the reason we are here is to see - without having to go there. and the reason we are here is to see the - reason we are here is to see the test bed in action. this allows companies with how best to make use of the technology's speed and limitations. it of the technology's speed and limitations.— of the technology's speed and limitations. ., ., limitations. it allows you to put artificial lag. — limitations. it allows you to put artificial lag, artificial— limitations. it allows you to put artificial lag, artificial starter i artificial lag, artificial starter into the system which means that you can try and push data back to each other and see just how much you can cause problems with the system before you start to get a breakdown and the end result you need to achieve and therefore know what you can't limit. what we really exnloiting _ can't limit. what we really exploiting is _ can't limit. what we really exploiting is an _ can't limit. what we really exploiting is an industry . can't limit. what we really - exploiting is an industry where we can see _ exploiting is an industry where we can see manufacturing applications that simply weren't capable of delivery— that simply weren't capable of delivery before. really what it means — delivery before. really what it means is _ delivery before. really what it means is it allows us to control things— means is it allows us to control things at— means is it allows us to control things at long distance in real lima — things at long distance in real time. , ., , time. ok, here is a different example _ time. ok, here is a different example of— time. ok, here is a different example of how _ time. ok, here is a different example of how 56 - time. ok, here is a different example of how 56 can - time. ok, here is a different l example of how 56 can stream time. ok, here is a different - example of how 56 can stream a lot example of how 5g can stream a lot of data very quickly. it's more relaxed, for me, at least. i am

driving this robot around the car park and nine going to try and do something that they one day might use in disaster loans as it —— the disaster zones and medical emergencies. i have to grab this bag of fake blood and rode into the container. sounds easy, quite be messy, but in vr it is not that bad. this is a lot easier than i thought it was going to be. i thought i would have to embody a robot, but it's just a case of drag on the arm around where i want to. lifting up the bag of blood and... around where i want to. lifting up the bag of blood and. . ._ the bag of blood and... there is a basket, either _ the bag of blood and... there is a basket, eitherjust _ the bag of blood and... there is a basket, eitherjust left _ the bag of blood and. .. there is a basket, eitherjust left over- basket, eitherjust left over there. swinging the blood back into the basket. then letting go. nice! the ideasis basket. then letting go. nice! the ideas is that this could be happening anywhere in the world. exactly. anywhere, you could be in

china doing this, in a mine shaft, anywhere. you could sit comfortably in your office and control a robot from wherever you need to be. i will! from wherever you need to be. i will be honest. — from wherever you need to be. i will be honest, there _ from wherever you need to be. i will be honest, there is _ from wherever you need to be. i will be honest, there is a _ from wherever you need to be. i will be honest, there is a very _ from wherever you need to be. i will be honest, there is a very slight lag, but for what i'm trying to do, i think that lag is totally manageable. job done. i think that lag is totally manageable. job done. well done, aood 'ob. manageable. job done. well done, good job- it's _ manageable. job done. well done, good job. it's all— manageable. job done. well done, good job. it's all very _ manageable. job done. well done, good job. it's all very easy - manageable. job done. well done, good job. it's all very easy when i good job. it's all very easy when ou're good job. it's all very easy when you're just _ good job. it's all very easy when you're just in — good job. it's all very easy when you're just in a _ good job. it's all very easy when you're just in a car _ good job. it's all very easy when you're just in a car park. - good job. it's all very easy when you're just in a car park. but - good job. it's all very easy when i you're just in a car park. but now, it is time to see how this can all be done in a while. here is paul carter. ., , carter. the yorkshire dales national park in the north _ carter. the yorkshire dales national park in the north of— carter. the yorkshire dales national park in the north of england. - carter. the yorkshire dales national park in the north of england. a - park in the north of england. a favoured destination for walkers, hikers and climbers. in the event that any one gets into difficulty, it's the volunteers of the mountain rescue who got to help. i am spending two full days of them during the changeable challengeable conditions of the storm to see how

tech can make a difference. as beautiful as the landscape surrounding can be, with conditions like today, they can be pretty treacherous. especially for emergency services like mountain rescue. there is a complete lack of any mobile phone coverage. i have up see nothing. what the team here are doing are trailing a range of solutions utilising technology to make their lives easier and save lives. one of the best tools in a rescue team pass arsenal is still the canine variety. this is a mountain search dog. what mountain search dog. good girl. what she doesn't know _ mountain search dog. good girl. what she doesn't know is _ mountain search dog. good girl. what she doesn't know is that _ mountain search dog. good girl. what she doesn't know is that thanks - mountain search dog. good girl. what she doesn't know is that thanks to - she doesn't know is that thanks to their 5g network installed here, her every move on the hillside it can be tracked remotely. back at base, we can see where she is going on a tablet. that's a dog on the screen

there? , , , there? just there, little bit greyed out, but there? just there, little bit greyed out. but he _ there? just there, little bit greyed out. but he is _ there? just there, little bit greyed out, but he is running _ there? just there, little bit greyed out, but he is running around. - there? just there, little bit greyed out, but he is running around. all| out, but he is running around. all this is out, but he is running around. fill this is possible because of equipment stored at the temporary base station. equipment stored at the temporary base station-— equipment stored at the temporary base station. ~ ., ., , ., base station. what we have here is a mobile base. — base station. what we have here is a mobile base. a _ base station. what we have here is a mobile base, a 56 _ base station. what we have here is a mobile base, a 56 mobile _ base station. what we have here is a mobile base, a 56 mobile base - mobile base, a 5g mobile base station — mobile base, a 5g mobile base station. we bring it with us to fill their— station. we bring it with us to fill their coverage where there is not coverage — their coverage where there is not coverage. it their coverage where there is not coveraue. , , ., . coverage. it uses a closed mobile freauen coverage. it uses a closed mobile frequency spectrum _ coverage. it uses a closed mobile frequency spectrum backed - coverage. it uses a closed mobile frequency spectrum backed up i coverage. it uses a closed mobile frequency spectrum backed up byj coverage. it uses a closed mobile i frequency spectrum backed up by an internet connection via starling satellites. that allows the people and the team back at base to share communications and audio and video and data at high speed. communication is vital to the team. especially— communication is vital to the team. especially for the people we are looking — especially for the people we are looking for that we want to find. there _ looking for that we want to find. there is— looking for that we want to find. there is no— looking for that we want to find. there is no greater need for speed than when lives are in danger. we went out in rain to see full scale medical rescue drill in action. it

showsjust how important medical rescue drill in action. it shows just how important sharing data quickly in such scenarios can be. ,., . ., .., be. the police have called the team and told us — be. the police have called the team and told us there _ be. the police have called the team and told us there was _ be. the police have called the team and told us there was an _ be. the police have called the team and told us there was an injured i and told us there was an injured walker— and told us there was an injured walker somewhere up the hill there. this is— walker somewhere up the hill there. this is a _ walker somewhere up the hill there. this is a 56 — walker somewhere up the hill there. this is a 5g non—standalone system, we have _ this is a 5g non—standalone system, we have got— this is a 5g non—standalone system, we have got two antennas here, one year, _ we have got two antennas here, one year. one _ we have got two antennas here, one year, one that, attachments to wall because _ year, one that, attachments to wall because of— year, one that, attachments to wall because of the complexity of the weather — because of the complexity of the weather conditions today. we did a wrench _ weather conditions today. we did a wrench test and we reached all the way up _ wrench test and we reached all the way up to— wrench test and we reached all the way up to the hill, to the top of the hill— way up to the hill, to the top of the hill here with full bars of 5g. the hill here with full bars of 56. this rapidly deployed 5g network allows the team to use medical devices to monitor the casualty on their phones and transmit it back to their phones and transmit it back to the base. the remote monitoring devices mean rescue crew don't have to stop to check as they head down and medical staff at base can keep and medical staff at base can keep an eye on crew while they are concentrate on navigating difficult

terrain. i’m concentrate on navigating difficult terrain. �* ., terrain. i'm getting enough information _ terrain. i'm getting enough information here _ terrain. i'm getting enough information here to - terrain. i'm getting enough information here to tell i terrain. i'm getting enough information here to tell me terrain. i'm getting enough - information here to tell me that... for the volunteers, working at night brings extra challenges. using infrared and thermal imaging which can also be streamed remotely, the team can locate casualties more easily. team can locate casualties more easil . ~ ., , , ., easily. we went on the side before. this is currently _ easily. we went on the side before. this is currently all _ easily. we went on the side before. this is currently all an _ easily. we went on the side before. this is currently all an ongoing i this is currently all an ongoing trial. it is a partnership between many bodies. for these guys, conditions can change any minute and connectivity is absolutely crucial. some of these ideas are still in infancy and logistically, there are hurdles to be overcome. but who knows? if you ever find yourself needing to be located by a search dog, you never know if you just might be more on the grid than you think.

i think paul may have made a new best friend there. now, this time of year is movie nomination season. for us that click, the opportunity to talk to some of the greatest minds in visual effects to see what they have been up to over for me, getting on board with the matrix was huge. i think a lot of people in this industry will probably have had the matrix affect them in different ways. there was a huge expectation on the movie's shoulders, but also on vfx, obviously we're revisiting a world that had been created 20 years ago, so we knew these assets were alive somewhere, we just had to try and track them down and find them.

and it wasn't, sadly, the case that they all just live in a nice hard drive and we canjust ask warner brothers, "hey, can we have the assets?", and they send them to us. lots of e—mail threads, different people, old companies looking through their backups and finding whatever they can. we eventually managed to restore, i think, a sentinel, a harvester and a foetus egg stalk. we found all the files but then we were like, how do we open it? none of the modern 3d packages will open these files. we found an old version of the file that we could open it, export it in a different way and be able to pull it in. they needed upgrading. they were built a long time ago, topology is different, textures we obviously had to redo. so they gave us a perfect starting point to build on. and it was even just exciting opening those assets, this is from the first matrix, this is wicked! getting to spin around the models and see how they are made, it was really cool. we did add more details, the way the geometry intersected, and the way it was previously built, so we upped the detail and upped the resolution — we are a 4k movie, we had to make sure it held up in ak, where the previous versions needed a bit of a boost.

the same with the foetus fields and foetus eggs, again we kept the overall design, we kept the foetus baby exactly the same, we just extended the stalks and added more detail, more cables. that fit in with the story in this case because this is 60 years, time has passed, and the machines have sort of evolved their harvesting methods to draw more power so we have the cable. io city is sort of the new zion of this movie, like the expanded city. that was one of our biggest builds. we had to break it down into lot of small sections, we wanted to try and create a believable city that you could feel people have lived there for a while and they have figured out how to — irrigation channels, farming, dwellings, we tried to block out these different areas that you could buy as real, and then populate it with little people, little chimney stacks, atmospherics, it was set in a huge cabin so we want to make sure we have a sense of scale. our vfx work will always be better if we are building off the back of something real, or if we have something real to reference before

we build out the effects. it will always look better, you can create whatever you like, you can create wonderful environments, as much imagination as you like, but as soon as you start putting something real into it you just need something to ground it. and i think if you do a partial set build of exactly the kind of idea that you want, you want to light your characters in a certain way, the background behaves a certain way behind them, so once you have got something captured on camera it is so much easier to extend that in cg and build on the same thing, and you know, be a part of that. after all these years, to be going back to where it all started? back to the matrix. great work, and next week we will have the second in our visual effects series, not to be missed. that's it for this week though, as ever you can keep up with the team on social media, find us on you instagram, facebook and twitter and @bbcclick. thanks for watching, bye—bye.

well, it was a cold but sunny start to saturday. how is the best of the day looking? not bad at all. clouds will be bubbling up in the afternoon and we are expecting a few showers, the majority of the day is bright and dry at least. here is the satellite picture. big weather systems out in the atlantic, but cloud in the uk coming in from the north at the moment and clipping scotland. you can see the wind is also blowing in from the north and so it is chilly and our air is cold. today, we will see cloud bubbling up across the country, but the sunniest weather will be across the east and south west of england in some parts of wales. properly staying dry here, scattered showers elsewhere and in

the north of scotland, frequent showers. temperature seven in aberdeen, no higher than 12 degrees in the south. tonight, the skies are clear, the winds will be like, aggressively for a frosty night this time of year. in city centres and sunday morning it will be around freezing, in rural spots, sunday morning it will be around freezing, in ruralspots, it sunday morning it will be around freezing, in rural spots, it will be colder than that. it does mean that sunday gets off to a sunny and crisp start with a beautiful sunrise tomorrow. the winds are starting to shift direction out to the west and we see an advancing weather front. it does mean clouds will thicken across the west and elsewhere we will see clouds bubbling up in the afternoon. a bright rather than sunny day tomorrow. under monday and tuesday, the winds really have changed direction. you can see they are coming and mostly from the south and south—east. that means a lot of cloud spreading across the uk. outbreaks of rain, is to unsettle days on monday and tuesday. with the

change in wind direction comes a warmer atmosphere from the south, all the way from the azores. you can see that stream of mild air coming away, notjust across the uk, but other parts of europe and scandinavia. you can see temperatures by mid week will be approaching 20 celsius across england and mid teens in scotland. a summary of all of this, a brighton chilly weekend, monday and tuesday cloud and outbreaks of rain and then warmerfrom cloud and outbreaks of rain and then warmer from wednesday onwards. enjoy your day. cliff, cliff don't do this. that document is the only proof we have. no, we don't need less. we are going

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