whoa! ..get in there. nick laughs # through it all... #

so...the story starts. # i'm loving angels instead. # sydney harbour hosts thousands of commuter ferries, vessels each year. for 3% of carbon emissions. hello! hi, how are you doing? nice to meet you.

in fuel consumption. can we see some brushing? yeah. you can see some brushing. go on, then. whoa! get in there. nick laughs toxic for marine life. toxic for marine life. it's actually one of the largest direct sources of ocean microplastics of ocean microplastics is this paint. it's not a by—product of something else, like, you know, dust from car tyres is this paint. or microfibres from textiles. we're deliberately pouring plastic and we're deliberately pouring plastic and poison into the sea. poison into the sea. underwater, things that usually help autonomous vehicles move around, vehicles move around, like gps and lidar scanners, just don't work. like gps and lidar scanners, just don't work.

so they've designed their own complex navigation and perception system. look at it go. once you're actually in contact with the boat, and the robot is in this highly disturbed environment, and it's pushing against the boat and the boat's pushing back, and it's being pushed in waves and so on — then you need a very sophisticated way to see through this kind of cloud of bubbles and particles

we've adapted hullbot into a tool for managing sea urchins they've called it cullbot and it can detect and control it's been trialled by researchers from the university of new south wales and the sydney institute are degraded or declining.

we're about to count the urchins that we see in 10m bands. we place it down and we take photos along the transit line as well. it can stay down for as long as we want it. we can show the funding bodies, for example, orjust and after we intervene.

so what do you think, adriana? it is excellent. you can see the barren area really well. you can see the sea urchins and you can see how, area of the seafloor... yes... instead of sending divers down for days at a time in shark—infested waters, adriana thinks the same job could be done with the bot in only a couple of hours. any more, it's about recovering what we have lost because there you know, we'd love to solve climate change, we'd love

and on a much bigger scale, the kind of scale we need of cleaning up our mess. to determine whetheror not roads. expand and lead to much bigger problems like the dreaded pothole.

reducing the cracks before they develop by healing itself. a look at how it works. but first, we need to cook up some asphalt. it's literally cooking! laughter actually, that's a lie. we increase the temperature in the bitumen, for that reason, the bitumen is a liquid now. oh, look at that. and the key piece — for the spoon, like i'm cooking. definitely. you can come

and do my driveway! yeah. now what do you do to turn this from regular asphalt into self—healing asphalt? to advance the bitumen—asphalt mixture, we need to the spores are filled with recycled oils which are released when the asphalt begins to fracture, i'm using this one. 0h. autonomously. wow.

it's working now. cracks can fully develop. asphalt is a very complex material. and at the end of the day you have a leftover. that thick, black bitumen, you put it on the road, it works. of molecules, it's very difficult to characterise. with the modelling, we can reach, let's say, beyond the observation of the experimental techniques.

the properties of the material from the molecular scale without the need of the experimental set—up. technologies come to help in accelerating that process in greater detail. what you have here, these capsules are actually natural spores that were filled with a rejuvenator, one of these oils. some of them — you can see them — are still full. rejuvenator into the bitumen. yeah. for the self—healing material.

of level are you at? that we can see on the roads any time soon? for today, we have several solutions using capsules we are ready to prepare capsules and use on the roads. 0k, time to look at 0k, time to look at this week's tech news. this week's tech news. the uk and us have not signed the uk and us have not signed an agreement coming out of the international a! action summit held in paris. the communique pledges an "open, inclusive and ethical an agreement coming out approach" to developing the ground—breaking technology. over 60 countries have signed up, but a uk government source said the declaration did not reflect the uk's approach as a country.

google has officially renamed the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america on its maps application for users in the united states. now, this change comes as a result of that executive order by us president donald trump. mexico told google that it had no legal right to make the change, as it contravenes a un convention.

in the hands of fraudsters? i was so surprised by the scale. streaming has transformed the music business and now makes up more than two—thirds of the music industry's global revenue. but in a first—of—its—kind case, one man in the us has been charged with streaming fraud. accused of using al to create and stream music and illegally collect more than collect more than $10 million in royalties. $10 million in royalties. #yeah... # #yeah... # mike smith seemed to have made it as an artist. over 200,000 followers on social media... ..but now he's facing up to 60 years behind bars if convicted. he's pleaded not guilty to all the charges. well, mike smith has been accused of using artificial

intelligence to generate hundreds of thousands of songs and then use bots — these are computer programs that can perform tasks repeatedly and automatically — to listen to these songs billions of times, generating royalties for himself. when i saw his mugshot, it was like my screensaver for, like, two months. this isjonathan hay, a music publicist who has worked with some impressive names over the years. whitney houston, twista, kanye west's label, eminem's label. now, jonathan started working with mike from around 2012 onwards. he said that mike had ambitions of becoming an artist and producer himself. so how did that relationship go? he wanted us to be producers, smith and hay. mike suggested that we pay rappers. so he spent, you know, a couple of hundred thousand dollars on getting us rap features. and everything with him was like 100%, you know, legit. but eventually, in 2018, jonathan sensed something sinister might be at play.

jazz singles that would chart one week as number one would suddenly disappear the next. some of the jazz people that i've known were like, "that doesn't happen like that." it just went from one to zero. i'm like, "mike, what's going on?" he was like, "i don't know, we lost, like, our radio." he always had an excuse. and then he did this christian song, right, that's called beautiful day. and we were getting streams in like vietnam and pakistan and it's like, ok, what? then, all of a sudden, all of our music started coming down and i would get messages from tunecore — "your music is taken down because of streaming fraud." then distrokid shut us down — streaming fraud. landr shut us down — streaming fraud. jonathan's shown me emails where he unsuccessfully tried to argue his case with the distribution companies which are services that help artists get music uploaded on to streaming sites. he told me that, at this point, he got the authorities involved. so i met with the fbi agent in louisville, kentucky.

he was like, "yeah, this is definitely something that we would be interested in." that's when mike and i, like, broke it off. it's been alleged that mike's scheme ended up being much larger than whatjonathan suspected. in an email obtained by the fbi from february 2024, mike is alleged to have boasted his activity generated $12 million in royalties since 2019. i wanted to speak to mike smith to hear his side of the story, but he didn't respond to my request for an interview. he's not without his supporters, though. some people online are calling him robin hood, saying that what he did was good because streaming services take advantage of artists. mike smith is a decent, good guy. # i didn't know... # this is goldy locks, a businesswoman, professional wrestler and a music artist. i'm not saying that mike smith isjesus christ. i'm just saying, throughout the world and throughout history, it appears as a human race there's always somebody that's being

used as an example. my feed is flooded with, "this is how you trick spotify into spinning your song more so that you can get more revenue." using bots, do you think it should be illegal or...? no, it shouldn't be illegal! do you think that is fraud? no. what are you going to...? it's here. it's already here.

i do not believe the do] and the fbi have of the food chain. someone who they have full jurisdictional control over in the united states to set the precedent they need to go so, what now? mike has been charged with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy these are all federal crimes which each carry

the music industry for years, yet this alleged conduct has never been criminally prosecuted under these statutes before. this is a unique case, and mr smith looks forward make waves in the music business. i think it's wonderful. time in music history. look around the table. in five years, we're all going to hate each other... ..but we'll be rich. i'm visual effects supervisor on the movie better man. sh! ..for young men with dancing... mum!

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over the uk right now. and it's on this edge here where these two that's where we sometimes get the snow. of saturday morning. you can see some snow, perhaps some freezing rain, falling across the pennines through yorkshire, possibly to the south of that, it's rain. but it's not a widespread

thing by any means. and sunday, it's, ithink, more or less the same — western areas of the uk. look at these values — 4 degrees for most of us. tip of cornwall there, around 8 degrees sunday afternoon. now, how about next week? be coming our way. there'll be some sunshine too, rain, but those temperatures bye— bye.

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