In a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Everybody, in their mind, they are scared about coronavirus, but at the same time, they are kind of adjusting to the new normal. This week protecting children from online harm. Is ai the answer . How does the p55 compare to the xbox series x . And what does doing this do to my brain . Hey, welcome to click. Hope youre doing 0k. At the moment, we are all online much more than we used to be im talking about us, the adults, but also our children too. And for many parents, there have been huge challenges trying to work from home at the same time as supervising children. And that has meant, in some cases, handing over devices before the proper Parental Controls are in place. And thats compounded by the fact that they may not have had enough time to supervise in the way that they wouldve done in an ideal world. So with my youngest, its simple im there, i operate the computer for her, i know shes not going to see anything that she shouldnt. But my son is starting to get to the age where i want to give him a bit more independence but i also want to keep him absolutely safe. So so what do i do . Can i rely on Parental Control Software to block all harmful content . I feel that i also should be teaching him how to spot and possibly even become resilient to the stuff that he will still encounter online. Yep, thats a dilemma that all of us parents have to face, so weve been taking a look at some of the tech that aims to help, but also how companies and legislation could perhaps do more. This is sophie. She was just 13 when she took her own life. Like many parents, wed given sophie a phone, and we gave her that at the age of 12, and we discovered a few months later that sophie had been accessing really difficult material, really completely inappropriate for, well, in my view, anyone, but certainly a child of her age. Sophie had been suffering from depression and had had suicidal thoughts. Really hard bit for us was after sophie had died and we interrogated her ipad, we found some really difficult imagery and some guides to how sophie could take her own life and what would be a suitable method for doing that, and that was really, really hard to see afterwards. Its very easy to blame the parents and say well, what on earth were you doing, giving your phone to a 12 year old . Giving a mobile phone . But actually, we had Parental Controls at home and we had Parental Controls through the school. But these days, as you start to give a little bit more freedom to your teenagers, and as sophie had reached the age of 13, she started to get the bus with her older brother, the internet is ubiquitous, and i would question how much how many parents know exactly what is going on on their 13 14 , is year olds mobile phone and what they have actually seen and what they havent. Recently, a video of a young man taking his own life was posted on facebook and subsequently spread to other platforms, including tiktok, where it took days to be removed. Just this week, instagram announced that it will extend the use of Artificial Intelligence to spot this type of content to its eu users. It can then make it less visible and, in extreme cases, remove it. But this is a problem that exists across the industry. So ive been looking at safetowatch, a new ai video tracking platform that aims to help, which ive tested on an episode of the bbcs harlots. So the software is set to detect sensitive imagery and if it detects it, then it will grey the image out, thus prevent it from being seen. Now, its currently in alpha so it hasnt got its full functionality, but the general idea is that it can track video in real time. Now, that could be something thats being streamed directly from a phones camera, or some video that s being streamed from the internet, but it can block any nudity or any violence that a child shouldnt be seeing before it ever reaches their device. So this is all about semantic understanding, so the Artificial Intelligence isntjust looking at the image, its basically contextualising everything around it, including audio, so safetowatch also can analyse, detect and prevent threats in cartoons and anime. Its picked it up, its saying its picked it up, but its not hashing it. Its very early days for the tech, it is glitchy and full functionality is still being built, but its aims are big. It hopes to work across all content providers, including home made video. We never let mum or dad see what the child is doing that is crucial because we have to buy, if you like, and earn the trust of the child. Utterly, utterly important to the whole side of safety process. While the video tool is still being worked on, the companys ai powered monitoring keyboard has been available since last year. Once youve downloaded safetonets keyboard app, you can select it as you default. Now, if i start to type something unpleasant, like i hate you, for example, it comes up with the warning, saying watch out high risk content. And you can tap on that warning for more information. Of course, its pretty clear what ive written its just simply nasty. So let me try a few other things and show you how it would respond. So i feel depressed. And from there, it offers some advice. Oh, no would you like some advice . You are not alone others do feel like you. We can all do simple things to try and protect children from harmful content. Most isps offer the facility to switch parental blocks on, that will stop some sites being visited, and most devices come with parental control settings that are easy to enable. But perhaps throwing Tech Solutions at tech problems isnt the answer, and we should be going back to basics. Youre 11 years old, which is the time, again, when they get their first device. How do we, you know, use this in a way that keeps you safe in the same way that getting on the bus keeps you safe and the same way that doing anything the first time you rode a bike and we took off those training wheels, we thought about when to take those off, so get them to think critically. Doctor linda pa padopoulos is a psychologist working with internet matters, a Non Profit Organisation set up to help parents keep children safe online. She believes that giving kids the confidence to freely speak to their parents if they do experience a problem online is crucial. First thing is what does it mean . You know, what does inappropriate mean . Secondly, even if you do not, you know, know if its inappropriate, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, come to me. And thirdly, take a pause before you react. If you actually go on to a browser now and type in certain words into the bar at the top the public browser at the top of your facebook account, your Instagram Account youll find the same imagery and the same live videos coming up today as you did back then and sophie died six years ago and i think that says a lot about the control that these companies actually have on removing the material. Its obviously not being removed quick enough to be able to to stop harming our children. Ruth moss there. With us now is andy burrows who is the head of child safety online for the nspcc. Andy, hi. Hello there. Ruth says that the Tech Companies havent taken this material down anywhere near quickly enough. What do you think . Do you think Tech Companies are doing enough to stop this materialfrom making its way onto childrens computers and phones . We know that for many years, tech firms really havent done enough to make sure that their services are fundamentally safe for children to use. We know that, you know, Tech Companies make Design Choices when they build products about how to create really great, immersive products, about how to keep us on services for as long as possible. What we really want to see the big tech firms do is also then consider safety at the design stage, because its those choices about whether you introduce a particular feature, whether you introduce it in a certain way, whether you use algorithms in a responsible way that isnt pushing out damaging self harm and suicide content, for example. In your experience, what are the Biggest Online dangers for teens . Well, we are particularly concerned about the risk of online grooming that lots of children and young people face. So our Research Shows that one in 25 teenagers on some of the largest social networks have had a request to send sexual content of themselves to an adult, or they have received that content from an adult. We know that the design features in how a lot of the social networks are run really help to accentuate that risk. So think about, for example, the algorithmically suggested friend suggestions that all of us get on our accounts. We know that groomers can exploit those design features. Quite literally every time they refresh a page, there will be a fresh list of children who they can contact, and thats really analogous to the phishing e mails that all of us get. The principle is contact large numbers of children in the expectation that a relatively small number may click that friend request, and then the process of grooming can begin. And it is difficult for the parents. Do you think that parents are getting enough of an education about how to deal with this . It is really hard for parents and when you think about how quickly new apps and sites and games come from nowhere, and then become ubiquitous, it can be really hard for parents to keep up. Children, you know, unfortunately will be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content and potentially to harmful behaviour from others online. And if that happens, the most important thing to do is to sit and work through that with your child. To take away devices would not only be an overreaction, but it does not then help to make sure that your child is safer in future. Andy burrows, thanks so much for your time. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that the eu charged amazon with abusing its dominant position in the marketplace. Apple, at theirfourth event of the year, showed off its new range of Mac Computers the first to be powered by apples own mi chip. Us retailer walmart has decided to do away with its robot staff and replace them with. Actual people hooray the roving robots had been keeping track of its stock in over 500 shops for the past three years. Virgin hyperloop tested its first everjourney with passengers. The concept involves pods fitted within vacuum tubes which, its hoped, will transport people at very high speeds. The journey took 15 seconds, reaching over 100 miles an hour. Best not to get too excited, though the trial involved two Company Employees who travelled only 500 metres. And to end with, engineers at Disney Research have designed this robot which can mimic human eye contact. The bot can turn to face people as they approach and rather than staring into the depths of your soul, its eyes flit about in a more human way. Much less creepy all it needs now is some skin and some hair. Welcome to goodwood speedweek, where hundreds of racing cars got to stretch their legs last month. Although not open to the public this year, millions of motorheads could join online to leer at some of the worlds most valuable and historic motors. And then theres this the Porsche Taycan turbo s. £138,000, top speed 161 miles an hour, 76 horsepower. And, as an electric car, this should leave the field way behind. Now of course, they are not going to let me drive this around the track on my own. 0h apparently they are going to let me drive this around the track on my own but only if i wear a couple of things while im doing it. My brainwaves were be recorded using this headset, and my stress levels recorded using this smartwatch. The idea behind both of these studies is to look at how our bodies behave during stressful tasks and then understand how best to mentally prepare for them. So, lets give me some stress all ive got to do now is work out how to drive this thing. Here we go then 0oh, my life thats fast. Oh, my gosh, im taking off again thats way too fast you cant corner this fast, can you . Ican ok, so what is all this excitement doing to my brainwaves . Well, after the race i hooked up with dr Tony Steffert to look at my brains beta waves the main indicator of how my brain is coping with learning a new task. What might you expect the brainwaves of an amateur racing driver or, lets say, a complete novice like me to look like . I would expect the novice driver to have more beta, more going on, and less able to focus on the narrow task of doing doing the driving. And then if you put someone like Lewis Hamilton in that car. . I would imagine he would look like a meditator, you know . His brainwaves are all calm because hes kind of seen it all before and done it all before. I, however, hadnt, which is why on the complicated parts of the track, my beta waves went through the roof. This is a chicane. This is a chicane, i will slow down well. Really slow for this oh, my life that seems to fit that that spike where the increase in beta is going with the chicane. Holy. Mother of pearl 80 seconds in, i put my foot down and go well, exclaimed quite loudly that its going quite fast. What does it say 80 seconds in on your. . Well, thats funny, because actually, youre less beta y there. Well, thats because im on a straight, maybe, and im. Yes, i was just about to say that, yeah. Its youre not having to think quite as i mean, ok, you might be going 0h, my god but youre not having to worry about corners and g force and all that. 134 oh, that will do ok, thats my brain done. Lets see if my stress levels from the smartwatch are telling us anything different. So were in the second lap here and, at least according to the data, you seem to be chilling out a little bit and getting used to the vehicle. Your stress levels have been slowly declining through the first lap. Yep. And then it gets really interesting. We can see a big spike coming and it all seems to be around this moment as you enter the levant corner. And its great because youre pushing the car as fast as you can manage and youre not sure if youre going to lose the back end. Yeah, youre absolutely correct bens software has been trained to spot stress through changes in blood oxygenation, breathing rate and heart rate variability. Now, its not the same combination of changes for everyone, and its not the same in every type of situation. Here, in driving, its the breathing rate which is the main indicator of stress. And both ben and tony agree that if we can see for ourselves what affects our stress levels and our concentration, we can learn what activities get us in the right zone for a particular task. So if you can reduce the stress before you do a task, then you have more headroom to increase the concentration during the task. If youre just on all the time, youre consuming too much energy, you wont have as many reserves when you really need them. And just when i thought the worst bit was over, something unexpected in the data. And then whats really quite amusing is when your stress levels are actually going to go back pretty much to the sort of high point and its actually as you are coming off the track, its not in the moment when you are kind of throwing the car around, its when you turn on the indicators and try to figure out how to get back into the paddock and then everyone is shouting at you and giving you directions. So im more at peace when im hammering around the track at 100 odd miles an hour than i am trying to follow instructions about where to park and. . Thats it. Maybe youre more of a professional than you realise. Dont tell me that dont tell me that ill be insufferable. That was incredible. This thing flies. Phew i wish i hadnt had such a heavy lunch laughs. Oh, i love it that you find parking more stressful than speeding around a racetrack i know but i also thought that it was really interesting that we need stress those ups and downs are actually good for us. Yeah, absolutely and interestingly, dr steffert said that before a task where youre gonna need lots of brainpower, its good to give your brain some downtime, otherwise you wont have the extra capacity you need to get through the task. But whats also interesting is some people can go into a task not stimulated enough, and that means they make mistakes because theyre just not paying enough attention so true. Weve all done that, i think now, a few weeks ago, marc cieslak got his hands on the latest xbox, the series x. This week, hes playing with its rival the ps5. So, how do they compare . Theres no denying the new playstation is weird looking. Forget what a ps5 looks likejust for a moment. Well come back to that in a minute. Take a look at the games. Under the skin, the ps5 has custom amd ryzen gpu, which supports ray tracing a method of creating more realistic lighting effects. This means more visual whiz bang for your buck and it has an 825 gig ssd, which means load times should be drastically reduced. Whoa it comes in two flavours the full fat, full price version, which features an ultra hd blu ray drive, and a cheaper digital only version, which lacks the optical drive. Watch it hes throwing something as well as ray tracing, the gpu is technically capable of 8k graphics, although for now, 4k is all weve seen. It should be able to pump out 120 frames her second visuals as well, although so far, everything that ive been playing has been at 60 frames although very smooth. Ive been testing this machine for a couple of weeks and ive mainly playing spider man miles morales. Whee . And astros playroom, which comes bundled free with the machine. Both titles demonstrate what the next generation is capable of, but in different ways. Spider man is simply gorgeous to look at. And the way in which spidey traverses the big apple, web swinging, wall crawling, running and leaping from building to building, as well as taking out bad guys with his trademark athleticism, spider sense and web slingers are all great calling cards for sonys new machine. Astros playroom casts the player as a cute little robot who embarks on a series of adventures inside the console. While some experiences are no doubt influenced by any number of platformers and adventure games, they do serve to showcase the ps5s new dualsense controller. So here, i have to use my little robot to pull out this cable, and i can feel the feedback and the elasticity of the cable through the controller. It feels weird to be impressed by that, but i really am something im less impressed with is the playstation 5s physical box. The ps5 has has variously been described as looking like a router or an air conditioning unit which is fair enough, because it is one weird looking console. But i think all of its strange styling quirks are to try and mask its massive bulk. This is a big console. Its so big that it has its own postcode. In fact, i think its so big, its probably visible from the International Space station. Houston, i can confirm i can see the playstation 5 from space 0ver. Of course, the biggest challenge the ps5 will face is not from its own massive dimensions, but from the xbox series x. Like the ps5, the series x has better graphics and a superfast ssd, which drastically reduces loading times. It also comes in two versions the series x and the less powerful, cheaper, series s. One feature that sets it apart is the brilliant quick resume, which lets you switch between games in seconds, picking up where you left. And perhaps the ace up microsofts sleeve for the xbox is game pass a netflix Style Subscription Service which gives players access to hundreds of titles for a monthly price. We think Xbox Game Pass is a critically important part of our platform. We are trying to make gaming more seamless, easier to try new games, easier to experiment with new games. Its reallyjust offering a ton of choices to players right now. So, which of the two next gen machines to choose from . Well, they are actually pretty different. The ps5, at the moment, feels like the most next gen of the two thats because the games that are available for it at the moment really do show off what this machine can do. The xbox series x, on the other hand, is the more powerful of the two machines here, and game pass really does open up a whole world of video games to people that dont want to spend as much money per month on titles. This is an evolution, rather than a revolution. But on this evidence, its off to a strong start. That was mark, and thats it for this week. Butjust before go, a word on Something Big that were doing next week. Every year, the bbcs 100 women project shines a light on womens issues and womens achievements and click has arranged for some of the most inspiring female tech role models to be at a special event, and we would love you to be there as well. So if youre a woman just setting out on your career in tech, get in touch. Tweet us bbcclick and you can be in the audience and ask your questions to our special guests. Look forward to seeing you there thats it for now, though. Thanks for watching and well see you soon. Bye bye. Hello there. If you are planning to get out for some much needed exercise today, youre going to have to brace yourself for some cloud, some wind and some rain around. The weekend stays pretty unsettled. Low pressure is going to dominate the story. Its going to anchor itself to the north west of the uk and it is allowing these weather fronts to circulate into the south of the low and bring some rain at times. Plenty of isobars on the charts as well, it will be widespread windy. Perhaps the Northern Isles and north east of scotland staying largely dry and bright. Pulses of wetter weather, particularly in the south east and then another pulse moving through the latter stages of the afternoon. Bands of showery rain, the winds a feature, widespread gusts, 40, 45 miles an hour, maybe in excess of 50 55 miles an hour across the south west and through the irish sea. It will be mild because the wind direction is coming from a south westerly, not that you will notice it with these showers or longer spells of rain at times. Now through the evening and overnight, we will see most of the showery rain dying back to the west and south coast. A lot of cloud around. It stays quite blustery as well and it is going to continue to feel quite mild 9 to 13 degrees first thing on sunday morning. Down to the south east on sunday, we could see this weather frontjust enhancing some wetter weather for a time, the low not moving very far at all. And the winds will start to drive in plenty of showers from the west. A wet start in the south east, but then sunday should be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers. The strongest of the winds on sunday are going to be through the channel through the middle of the afternoon. We could see gusts of winds 50 60 mph plus on exposed coasts and that will drive in plenty of sharper showers here. So, sunshine and showers for sunday afternoon, top temperatures, though, still mid teens 1a, 15 degrees, perhaps, the highest values. But things are going to change as we move into the week ahead. We start to move away from that south westerly flow and drag in a northerly wind direction. The blue tones start to arrive across the country. That means, as we go through the week, there is the potentialfor some rain around on monday, showers through the middle part of the week, but it gets noticeably cooler from friday into next weekend. Take care. What a performance. Are you disappointed or happy . I cant be disappointed, im level with you. Eni, you took off the shirt and delivered. You didnt mess about. I think it is because i took it all off and let it go. I mean, 77 is the score. Ive surprised myself with that. Delighted. That is one of my biggest achievements. Thanks for coming on the show. Timbsy and craig, pledge as always. Make sure you join us next week. Pleasure as always. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister is being urged by several conservative mps to use the departure of his chief adviser Dominic Cummings to reset government. Mr cummings left downing street for the final time last night after internal battles about his role