this week, nick goes down under to get touchy—feely if you're brave enough, you can put your hand on there and... whoa! paul visits a lab where they're working on a recipe to solve well, actually, that's a lie. mmm, tasty! # through it all... #

monkey business going on. # i'm loving angels instead. # it's australia's busiest waterway. sydney harbour hosts thousands of commuter ferries, recreational yachts and around 1,200 commercial vessels each year. but boats burn fuel and, globally, shipping accounts with electric ones in the next decade, one local start—up hello! nice to meet you. the slime which can develop can

increase the drag of the ship in fuel consumption. biofouling on hulls causes at least 1% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. you can see the water rippling. yeah. if you're brave enough, you can put your hand go on, then. whoa! get in there. nick laughs. the company hopes to reduce the need for conventional protective anti—fouling paint, which is toxic for marine life. of ocean microplastics is this paint. it's not a by—product of something else, like, we're deliberately pouring plastic and underwater, things that

usually help autonomous scanners, just don't work. so they've designed their own complex navigation and perception system. look at it go. through this kind of cloud of bubbles and particles and so on. we have lots of boats that have 20, 30, a0 years�* lots of those boats are not going to be able to be the best way of saving emissions from those boats, of saving the waterways that they're in, is to make them more efficient, to keep them clean, to make sure that we have slippery hulls going through the water

as well as scrubbing, the bot is being modified on lots of coastlines around the world. it's been trialled by researchers from the university of marine science as part of the restoration efforts. so seagrass meadows and kelp forests are super—important for hundreds of other species. globally, we've lost

about a third of the world's are degraded or declining. up until now, they've used some very manual tools. we're about to count the urchins that we see in 10m bands. and then we go back along the line again and we use this quadrat. we place it down and we take photos along the transit line as well. and then we can take that data and go back and review it when we go with divers, we're only able to sample a small section of our study habitat. them together to build a precise digital record in the form of 3d models. we can show the funding bodies,

for example, orjust the general public, what things look like before and after we intervene. so what do you think, adriana? it is excellent. you can see the barren area really well. yes... it is, actually. i mean, it's not a particularly good day either, so... instead of sending divers down for days at a time in shark—infested waters, adriana thinks the same job it's not only about not damaging marine habitats have been, you know, hundreds of years of destruction, of taking nature for granted. from a decline to a recovery, and it is happening.

you know, we'd love to solve climate change, we'd love to clean up the ocean, but it's a time—consuming activity to get in there and pick up plastic or get rid of pest robots let us automate that. but they also let us do it much more frequently and on a much bigger scale, the kind of scale we need to solve the immensity of these challenges. of cleaning up our mess. roads. we now have more than a0 million miles of them around

the dreaded pothole. a look at how it works. is itjust a case now that you mix these two together? laughter. for that reason, we need aggregate. i will put that in here. not like anything i've ever cooked! actually, that's a lie. and the bitumens. we increase the temperature in the bitumen, for that reason,

definitely. you can come and do my driveway! yeah, i can easily. 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 capsules contain tiny, porous materials known as spores. these are smaller than a strand of hair, and made from plants. rejuvenating it. the result is quite astonishing. so, in true bbc fashion, here's some you made earlier. yeah. this is asphalt mixture with capsules inside, and i put it here. i'm using this one. 0h. the self—healing effect

in order to close the crack autonomously. wow. so that's it, that's it working, that's it coming together. the substances contained in the microcapsules can help asphalt is a very complex material. it's a leftover of petroleum distillation. that thick, black bitumen, you put it on the road, it works. the problem is that because it's such a thick mix of molecules, it's very difficult to characterise. with the modelling, we can reach, let's say, so you can create models that are like these ones level. the properties of the material from the molecular

and then machine learning and all these new emerging the team are then using ct scanning and computational in greater detail. what you have here, these capsules are actually natural one of these oils. so you can see the spores, some of them are already broken, some of them — you can see them — are still full. yeah. for the self—healing material.

in terms of where the research is, at the moment, what kind of level are you at? you know, could this potentially be something 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. research is continuing into different types are looking at different solutions so that, one day, the dreaded pothole might be a thing of the past. the uk and us have not signed an agreement coming out of the international a! action summit held in paris. said the declaration did not reflect the uk's

approach as a country. the gulf of america on its maps application for users 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. users elsewhere in the world will see the gulf carrying both names — gulf of mexico and then, in brackets, gulf of america. and a us start—up says its headband device could allow people to work while sleeping. prophetic�*s halo device is designed to induce now, the device, currently under development, will use focused ultrasound signals to activate the dreaming state.

and work problems. 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 $10 million in royalties. 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. intelligence to generate hundreds of thousands of songs and then use bots — these are computer programs royalties for himself. when i saw his mugshot, it was like my screensaver for, like, two months. 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. and everything with him was like 100%, you know, legit.

but eventually, in 2018, jonathan sensed something suddenly disappear the next. some of the jazz people that i've known were like, 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." that's called beautiful day. and pakistan and it's like, 0k, what? down and i would get messages from tunecore — "your music is taken down because of streaming fraud." tried to argue his case with the distribution companies, on to streaming sites.

he told me that, at this point, he got the authorities involved. that we would be interested in." mike is alleged to have boasted his activity generated $12 million i wanted to speak to mike smith to hear his side of the story, he's not without his supporters, though. some people online are calling him robin hood, mike smith is a decent, good guy. # i didn't know... # this is goldy locks, a businesswoman, i'm not saying that mike smith isjesus christ. i'm just saying, throughout

the world and throughout 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? what are you going to...? it's here. it's already here. it's not going anywhere. many artists, like goldy, are unhappy with how little they're paid for streams, but that doesn't change pool his fellow artists receive payments from. so how big of a problem is streaming fraud? that aims to detect fraud on streaming platforms. a lot of the professional scammers, they don't

onto different streaming services and then slowly play each song. so no—one notices the song that only has a thousand plays, you can make a lot of money. i do not believe the d0] and the fbi have any illusions that $10 million is like the top 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? a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. he's pled not guilty to all charges. we contacted his lawyers about the accusations in this piece, and this is what they told us. "the indictment is an accusation, and he has not pled

as many articles have reported, has been widespread in statutes before. butjonathan is feeling positive about how the case may make waves in the music business. we finally have some rules for the first look around the table. in five years, we're all going to hate each other... hi, i'm luke miller. sh! ..for young men with dancing...

mum! of robbie williams, only, in this film, director which is a reflection of how he sees himself. turning actorjonno davies into digital robbie. jonno was there every single day, formed every single scene capture the data while it sort of played out. all took place there and then. robbie is represented as a chimp in the film, but all of his interactions, clothes he wears, the hairstyles he has, the level of emotion, everything is human, so we had to strike this really good, in that character. and emotion thatjust happens between the characters

of his eyes and brows and eyebrows on the digital character, and then leant into the chimp for the other areas of the face. the costumes, the hairstyles and tattoos that you see created as well. sort of to completely control all of those ape—clothed the costume department that we work with did provide us with real versions of every single costume you see robbie wearing in the film, and we scanned every single we could replicate them. # we got everybody so the regent street sequence, we did look

physically large enough to actually build the amount the decision was made to actually shoot there was a few things we had to do, and dress, but a lot of other stores on there with their window displays. in order so that we could join the next night's work and that was gone, off the street, no cranes,

shoot the following night. it's all or nothing. # through it all... # hello there. over the last few days. we've lost that cold, crisp winterfeel and it's been and windy weather at times. in fact, we've got gale—force gusts of winds arriving from the west associated with these weather fronts and heavy rain to come as well.

southerly wind. so, double figures first thing in the morning across parts it will be windy. scotland and to the far north of cumbria. some rain arriving later on in the afternoon across eastern england. if that happens, we could see temperatures peaking at 16 the end of november. it will be tempered a little bit by the strength the latter stages of friday. in the south—east for the start of the weekend. slightly fresher air tucking in behind as well. east anglia and kent. skies out to the west.

sunny spells and scattered showers developing into top temperatures generally between 10—13 degrees. through the weekend, because as we move out of saturday into sunday, another significant low pressure will start to wind its way in from the atlantic. and this is going to bring further gale—force gusts a spell of heavy rain across the far north and west of the uk, perhaps not arriving in the south—east top temperatures on sunday afternoon, between 8—13 degrees. to the far north and west,

with the best of the sunshine likely to be in the south—east, and we'll still see double figures.

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