This week cleaning up the social network. Adding your mask on. And. Breaking bad with Giancarlo Esposito. Hey, welcome to click and wear a mask. It is the advice you are given, just do it, its not a problem. In fact in some part of the world is just the problem. In fact in some part of the world isjust the norm problem. In fact in some part of the world is just the norm anyway. Problem. In fact in some part of the world isjust the norm anyway. So problem. In fact in some part of the world is just the norm anyway. So do it. Hey lara. Hello. I hope you have been bending the metal bit over your nose, now i know about it seems really obvious. Absolutely right and ididnt really obvious. Absolutely right and i didnt know that, until recently, it does help it simply so it is useful. It does help but it still doesnt fit perfectly although i may have a solution for that later in the programme. It has been a busy week in the world of tech. The uk government has decided to remove all of huaweis sg kit from the country by 2027. This is a decision with political ramifications and it will also likely delay the rollout of 56 here by two or three years. Huawei says the move was bad news for anyone in the uk with a mobile phone. And then there is facebook. Notjust a place phone. And then there is facebook. Not just a place for staying phone. And then there is facebook. Notjust a place for staying in touch with people, but also somewhere where you can share the news that you think is important. And the opinions that you want others to hear about. Even if they are unfair, untrue or offensive. Which often they are. Every social network is battling the issue with trying to moderate content, and for facebook as the biggest, well, there is an issue of even more influence, and even more responsibility to clea n and even more responsibility to clean up its act. That is exactly what it says it is trying to do. They are setting up an independent Oversight Board to help it with some of the trickiest issues on the platform. In a few minutes i will be talking to one of the members of that Oversight Board, but first, here is James Clayton with a reminder of how phase got to hear. Facebook got to hear. There was a time before russian bots and Cambridge Analytica and deep lakes when the internet was seen as a more interesting place. Freedom and free speech would abound. And initially, social media was seen through that lens as well. The arab spring, which was in part organised through online platforms, seemed to back that up. But that spring soon turned into a nightmare, and thousands of miles away in myanmar, facebook was about to get a sharp reality check. Facebook is wildly popular in that country, but hate exploded against the countrys Rohingya Muslims on the countrys Rohingya Muslims on the platform in the run up to the ethnic cleansing there. And in the 2016 us elections and the brexit vote, it was heavily criticised for allowing voters to be targeted with ultra personalised ads. In the last few years, facebook has found itself desperately trying to escape a mounting list of criticism. For example, that not enough was being done to take down hateful is homophobic, racist and anti semitic content. I think mailin voting is a terrible thing. Trump tweets like this one incorrectly talking a postal voting fraud were left up. Critics also argue that conspiracy theories such as those saying coronavirus was man made, were not taken down quickly enough. And during the george floyd protest, one video calling george floyd a horrible human being was one of the most watched videos during the protest. This is one of the companies defending that. We have been working in this area for years, working with teams and systems to improve this area, and we have made substantial changes, particularly as we look at the area of hate speech we look at the area of hate speech we are now, our we look at the area of hate speech we are now, oui system can we look at the area of hate speech we are now, our system can detect and remove 90 of that hate speech automatically. That all leads us to where we are now. Chris has into action. Stop hateful Profit Campaign has led to hundreds of Companies Pulling their ads from facebook in the month ofjuly. The technology that can bring us into the future, which is in so many ways dragging us into the past, they have created a set of incentive structures and algorithms that incentivise people to spread hate, that monetise hateful, violent content. Here is facebooks defence. Some of these decisions whether to take down content or not a hard, at what point does clamping down on dangerous use become an illiberal erosion of free speech . It is a question facebook doesnt really want to have to answer. That is why facebook has set up answer. That is why facebook has set up an Oversight Committee. Think of it as up an Oversight Committee. Think of itasa up an Oversight Committee. Think of it as a court where the defendant is the facebook video or user, the committee is the judge and jury. We believe that facebook alone should not be deciding what is or isnt a cce pta ble not be deciding what is or isnt acceptable online. Which is why we have been working to find a new way for people to appeal certain content decisions. They will decide whether political candidates ads have gone too far, what is and is not taken news and the line between hate and the right for people to articulate their views. The right for people to articulate theirviews. Considering the right for people to articulate their views. Considering more than 2 billion people actively use facebook and instagram, this committee has huge power, but only in theory. Facebook is broadly trying to move in the right direction, but facebook doesnt want to be regulated, and facebook understand it has a lot more to move if trump were to bring in legislation. More facebook can avoid being regulated, obviously, the better. Things like the Oversight Committee and the audit and all those things help them do this. Others, though, believe that the committee will have no actual teeth because of the power Mark Zuckerberg still has. Be able to give any feedback they want to. Because mark controls the organisation. So these Oversight Boards, people being able to put themselves on committees, putting their years of work sort of on display, i think it is a huge mistake for these individuals, because unless they are going to change the infrastructure and change the sort of incentives, then you are not actually going to change how things rollout. It is like saying you are a member of congress but not actually having a vote on the floor. That was James Clayton, and i am joined online now by one of the members of the new facebook Oversight Committee, this is alan rusbridger, the ex editor in chief of the Guardian Newspaper in the uk. You are one of 20 members originally announced on this board, are you happy with the mix of members that there are . That is a very interesting mix in terms of geographical location and diversity of outlook, diversity of ethnicity, you have got an interesting bunch of lawyers, human rights activists, academics, journalists, troublemakers, laughs , it is interesting, if you want a quiet life he would not have chosen this board. What did facebook say to you to persuade you to take this job . We are facing a crisis of truth, of. Of are facing a crisis of truth, of. Of trust, of knowing what is true and what is not true. And as somebody who. Kind of passionately believed in the dream and the opportunity that the internet offered, it has been very sad to see it get into a certain degree of trouble. So the idea of having a kind of independent board of people who could help what are basically a bunch of highly talented engineers think through the moral, legal, editorial, ethical considerations that they have to wrestle with, if we could pull that off that would be an incredibly valuable thing to do, andi an incredibly valuable thing to do, and i know lots of people are sceptical about whether we will, but it is certainly worth a try. Are you paid by facebook . Yeah. And that obviously is going to give you an extra challenge when people try and decide whether this is actually a genuine attempt by facebook to regulate itself. When i say i am paid by facebook, what facebook has done is set up a separate, like a trust, and although for the first few meetings there were facebook people in the room, there are now no facebook people in the room, and it feels as though we are now an independent entity. So have you any idea at the moment what kind of things you will be looking at . |j think facebook will come to us and say look, here is a particular thorny problem that we would appreciate your guidance on. I think users expect that there will be a big demand from users of facebook. Of course the number of potential individual complaints from users will be far too high for such a small board. It is most likely that instead they will be asked to advise on more general procedures. And at that point, facebook itself will also have a say in whether to implement any changes. If it turns out that facebook consistently ignores those kind of recommendations than it was an very clear signals. But as i said, that is not the sense that i get of the relationship that facebook wants, or why this board was set up in the first place. Are you confident that you can make the kind of difference you can make the kind of difference you want to, or at the moment is it still, you are finding out whether this is possible at all . It would be a foolish person who went into this saying that we are going to crack this. It may not be possible to crack, but it seems to be better to have a go than some of the alternatives, the alternatives are going to be to bring in some kind of regulation, but what does that mean, does that mean turkish regulation, pakistani regulation, saudi regulation, you have multiple forms of regulation, which means you are losing some kind of utopian dream of enabling people for whom Companies Like facebook are a lifeline. But the problems facebook has go far beyond what is on the platform. Like some other social networks, the biggest criticism of it is in the way it has designed its algorithm, which prioritises clicks for revenue, and pushes more extreme content revenue, and pushes more extreme co nte nt to revenue, and pushes more extreme content to the top to get more engagement. If the board could say well actually, there is a more important metric which is x, which should affect your algorithm, that would be an interesting conversation to start getting into. Is it important that we have our own advisors who can say actually, well, they could do that, and tell them to do it. Because we dont want to make recommendations that simply wont make sense, or unachievable. Do you know when this will be up and running at the moment, because there isa running at the moment, because there is a question over whether well be in place in time for the elections in the us in november. Whether we will be there and operational and making key decisions on some of the hot potatoes around the election, i dont know. It would be damaging to the project to come out with half baked recommendations now before we are ready. These are huge, intractable problems, and i know everybody wants them sorted out by next tuesday but i cant think of anybody make any body of people thatis anybody make any body of people that is going to find these easy problems to solve. Hypothetically, if you get two or three years down the road and you find that they were just wanting this, as you call it a figleaf, would you all. Resign . after two or three years it is evident that were having much impact, then. I guess a number of Board Members would think, is this really, worth it, and yeah, is it worth it. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that one of americas oldest fast food chains, white castle, as it would trial a robot in one of its chicago outlet in september. Chinese company 0ppo announced 125 what superfast charging for mobile phones with the possibility of fully charging a battery in 20 minutes. And researchers at Carnegie Mellon showed up a new technique for robots to learn how to grab shiny and transparent projects make objects using a new colour code system. It was also the week that high profile twitter accounts were comprised apparent bitcoin scam. Accounts affected included president 0bama, joe biden, elon musk, Kim Kardashian and country western bill gates. Twitter said they were aware of an acute security incident and were investigating. The body of a tech entrepreneur was found in an apartment in new york. An mit team demonstrated a robotic grabber with fingers handling with dexterity. Future applications could include surgical stitches and tying knots. Another robot companion made its debut this week. Meet stretch our e1. Designed by an ex google employee, the 23 kilo robot can help with housework and even play with the dog. Stretchers the first machine released by this company. Now i dont know about you but our Face Coverings are becoming a normal pa rt Face Coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. This slides off my nose, this one is baggy around my ears. Circled a personalised 3d printed one be the solution . Out of covid19 we have seen a few companies coming up with Creative Solutions but one common problem is that these masks are not customised to a universal size and shape. Not these however. This Research Project re purposes custom fit 30 Research Project re purposes custom fit 3d printed masks, a concept they we re fit 3d printed masks, a concept they were originally working on for people suffering with sleep apnoea. Now they hope to create perfect fitting respirators at a time when it seems we could be wearing them a lot. And all you need to get started, is a smart phone. First i need to scan my face. There are a couple of i0s apps that work to do this. The first is scanty pro. Although it was a little fiddly to get the image right, im told that this app is especially accurate. There is also bellas 3d which i thought was simpler to use and virtual me did look pretty realistic. I guess ijust find out how the mask fits when it actually arrives. Currently you do need an iphone ten or above to carry out this process but alternatives are being looked into, including some for android users. You then upload your scan to the website. Specially created code is used to extract the necessary data and that is sent to auto desks fusion three platform to twea k auto desks fusion three platform to tweak and rebuild the model to fit yourface. This should provide tweak and rebuild the model to fit your face. This should provide you with a free file of your mask to print. Assuming you do not have a 3d printer in your living room, there are plenty of companies out there that can print it for you at the cost of around a five. But while we all my like a better fitting mask that does not steam up our glasses, the real aim of this project is a much bigger picture. Right now, the masks that you can wear are just as good as a Face Covering if not better. But as we get better, as we get the technology more mature we will go through the certification process to check that the materials are safe and the filters work properly full dog of course, the outcome of each individual mask will not just outcome of each individual mask will notjust depend on an accurate scan but also the quality of the 3d printer. So the mask is arrived. Can we have the grand unveiling . Tada that is quite space age how does it feel . How does that fit . It definitely fits well. I can feel it is moulded to my face and i think it would be ok with glasses, no steaming. I can tell it is really airtight because your voice hardly makes it out of the mask. Can you breathe . That is a filter in the end. It is and these filters need changing every day but they are standard ones you can buy online and the whole mask can be fully disinfected. Is it comfortable . It certainly fit just right and the edges do feel quite soft so if i worked in a job where i had to wear this all day then i could see the benefit. But it does feel a little over the top to just go and buy some groceries. Moving on. Now because the e3 videogames mega show was cancelled this year, Game Companies have been doing their launches online instead. And last week saw one of the Biggest Online showcases, the Ubisoft Forward event but it coincided with three executives resigning over an investigation into sexual misconduct. For years the gaming word has been overshadowed by exa m ples of gaming word has been overshadowed by examples of abuse and toxic behaviour. And we report now on how it is not just behaviour. And we report now on how it is notjust a pandemic disrupting the videogames epidemic. Ubisoft is currently mired in an abuse scandal. The company put out a tweet before its latest online showcase, acknowledging that it would not be addressing these issues during its event. More on this later full at the event itself, the company did reveal the casting of Giancarlo Esposito as the villain in the latest far cry title. He is cast as a dictator. The player assumes the role of a gorilla fighter attempting to ta ke role of a gorilla fighter attempting to take down the dictator and his government from the islands jungles to the streets of its capital city. I spoke with the actor about donning a performance capture rig to create a performance capture rig to create a villain who is more than a chilling end of level boss. You have played several characters in recent yea rs played several characters in recent years with a quiet menace about them. Did you bring that to this game ordid them. Did you bring that to this game or did you go in a different direction . I always believe that quiet menace and a reflective menace is the most frightening menace. So you doubt me. Good art often makes us you doubt me. Good art often makes us think about our world and what is going on in our own lives. Do you think this game has the potential to affect the player in that way . Oh, my goodness what a great question. I do. My goodness what a great question. Ido. I my goodness what a great question. I do. Ifeel like this my goodness what a great question. I do. I feel like this storyline my goodness what a great question. I do. Ifeel like this storyline is really powerful and without giving anything away it is about relationships. Father and son. Everything i feel like i relationships. Father and son. Everything ifeel like i do has some sort of social imprint. My guess is that some of the staff that i have been involved with, such as better call, but saul and breaking bad, state m e nts call, but saul and breaking bad, statements are in these projects. And there is certainly a statement you can find in this game. What did you can find in this game. What did you think of the virtual version of you think of the virtual version of you created for the game . |j you think of the virtual version of you created for the game . I was blown away. I sat there amazed. If thatis blown away. I sat there amazed. If that is me, why notjust fill me . film me . that is me, why notjust fill me . film me . we all go boom. We are yet to see any gameplay but the title are slated for release in february 2021. But recent real world events at ubisoft have cast a shadow over the compa nys activities. Events at ubisoft have cast a shadow over the companys activities. Over the past couple of weeks, many women and other people working in the Games Industry have come forward with stories about Workplace Bullying or harassment and that runs the gamut from toxic Workplace Culture right through to Sexual Harassment and quite early in this wave, ubisoft name started coming up again and again. This has led to dismissals and resignation with two Senior Executives resigning in a third leaving their post stop ubisoft gave us this comment. These recent claims describe workplace behaviours that are unacceptable. We do not and will not tolerate abuse, harassment or discrimination of any kind to upon learning of these allegations we immediately launched independent investigations and have already announced a series of measures aimed at driving profound changes within the company as well as several significant personnel changes. The problem with a lot of creative industries, notjust games, is where you have superstar creative people who are seen as untouchable and indispensable to their companies and indispensable to their companies and sometimes that can create an environment in which those people feel they can get away with anything. Ubisoft is not the only publisher with workplace problems. Last year writer games came into the spotlight. There was a lawsuit launched against them by ex employees alleging sexist discrimination at that workplace. The cause ripples throughout the game industry. As we approach the next console generation and videogames achieve ever greater technical and artistic heights, it seems the industry still has work to do with how it conducts its affairs in the real world. That was marked and that is it for this week. As ever you can keep up with the team throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at bb cyclic. Thank you for watching. Mask up if you are asked and we will see you next week. Hello there. A good chunk of england and wales enjoyed sunny skies on friday, and in that sunshine, it was pretty warm. Temperatures reached 29 degrees celsius towards london and south east england. And then it was a sunny end to whats been a pretty cloudy week. Further north west, though, we had some cooler and fresher air. And what separated the hot from the cooler was this weather front. It brought some rain to parts of northern england, north wales, northern ireland, too. And the front itself, this area of cloud, stretches quite a long way out into the atlantic, and indeed, weve got this bump on the cloud just here. Thats known as a wave, and what that will do is it essentially will stop the weather front from moving very far very fast. So, small changes in the forecast as we get on through saturday. It means over the next few hours, well continue to see some rain across northern england, north wales, with rather misty conditions over the hills, a lot of low cloud. To the north of this, a few showers in scotland, a few clear spells as well. And to the south of our front, its a warm night, temperatures around 15 degrees in cardiff and london. Now, into saturday itself, this weather fronts still with us, slow moving. The rain turns a bit heavier for a time late morning, north wales, Northern Areas of england. But you can see all the while, the front doesnt really move very far very fast, so still bringing some damp weather to wales, northern england, the north midlands into the afternoon. South east of our front, i think the temperatures could well reach the high 20s in the hottest spots, but further north and west, weve got that cooler and fresher feel to the weather. Now, for the test match in manchester, well, its not looking great, really. Its a damp morning here. The rain slowly easing off, i think, as we head through the day, but there will be some disruptions to play here. Now, through saturday evening and overnight, here is the same weather front only slowly moving down towards the south east. So, on sunday, we will have a change in the weather pattern across east anglia, south east england, a cloudy start to the day with rain at times. Behind that front, brighter skies work in with some sunshine and a few showers into the north west of scotland. What you will notice, though, particularly across the south east of england and east anglia, is a fresher feel to the weather. Those temperatures back down generally into the high teens to low 20s. Now, beyond that, looking at the forecast into next week, High Pressure looks set to build in, particularly across southern areas, so some dry and bright weather with some sunshine. Turning a bit warmer as well as the week goes by. Thats your latest forecast. Bye for now. This is bbc news im Lewis Vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Schools in california will not reopen for the new academic year, as the us is hit by a new wave of coronavirus infections. Displays of the Confederate Flag on us military bases around the world have effectively been banned by the defence secretary. China prepares for a weekend of heavy rain as 15 Million People experience their worst flooding in decades. And now its captain sir tom moore, whos knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his Health Service charity work