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To achieve a better score, as demonstrated by the games developer rosa here. my own attempt to play is perhaps the strongest evidence i will ever need that a stint on strictly is not for me. during covid, gaming has seen a huge boom and that has meant that more and more investors want to invest in the space. we have been able to build more games, develop faster and also expand our team, so we have doubled the size of our team in the last year. so games companies big and small are crewing up as a...

Just programming, there are other roles as well. there are lots ofjobs that people could retrain to be looking to do. becoming a programmer is something that i would encourage anyone at school and any parent thats watching this as well to encourage their children to get into. a source of entertainment and employment — video games are a truly successful 21st—century combination of art, commerce and technology. now, a few years ago, we visited mit in boston, and one of the most memorable depar...

Loneliness is a very strange thing — ive never, prior to this, _ encountered any loneliness. ive always been surrounded by people, very busy. - and then to spend 12 months without human contact has . just, yeah, its been hard — very hard. i this lockdown in particular was the first time that ive been affected by the lockdown in terms of work. ive been working from home. so that in particular has been harder because ive not had that day—to—day connection with people, with my colleagues. g...

The team at the university of oxford looked over half a million patient records in the us to see if conditions affecting the brain were more common in those whod had covid. they looked at 1a conditions including anxiety, depression and psychosis, stroke, brain haemorrhage, and dementia. all of these conditions were seen more often in people whod had a covid infection in the previous six months. but these conditions all have very different causes. it could be that in some people the virus actuall...

This is bbc news. the headlines... the eu medicines regulator will hold a briefing on the astrazeneca vaccine this afternoon — amid concerns about potential links to rare blood clots. leading figures urge the public to continue getting the jab — saying the roll—out of the vaccine programme is the top priority. its a critical public health issue that the vaccination programme rolls through to its completion. that is the overriding safety concern. the first doses of the moderna vaccine for t...

Affected with the lockdown in terms of work. so, ive been working from home. so that in particular has been harder because ive not had that sort of day—to—day connection with people, with my colleagues. good morning, love devizes. how can we help? 0h, hello, there. i wonder if somebody could do some shopping for me, please. yeah, of course we can. back at the love devizes office, volunteers viv and michael are helping people who telephone in. people have started to come out of certain restri...

The theories of modern physics have given scientists a new understanding of how the universe works. but the current ideas arent able to solve some of the biggest scientific puzzles, such as how the universe as we know it came into existence. now, scientists at fermi lab, a particle accelerator just outside chicago, have got a result that might take us a big step forward in answering those questions. theyve been accelerating particles inside this giant ring close to the speed of light, and they f...

Particularly difficult. good morning, love devizes. how can we help? 0h, hello, there. i wonder if somebody could do some shopping for me, please. yeah, of course we can. back at the love devizes office, volunteers viv and michael are helping people who telephone in. so how are you doing at the moment, peter? 0h, not so bad, you know? bit fed up of all this shielding, ive got to be honest. been doing it over seven months now. have you really? people have started to come out of certain restrictio...

Working on a project at the fermi particle accelerator, just outside chicago, say they have found "strong evidence" for the existence of a new force of nature. they have found that sub—atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub—atomic physics. the uk funders of the research say that scientists are "on the precipice of a new era of physics". 0ur science correspondent, pallab ghosh, has the details. the theories of modern physics have giv...

This is bbc news. im martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00am... the eu medicines regulator will hold a briefing on the astrazeneca vaccine this afternoon — amid concerns about potential links to rare blood clots. leading scientists urge the public to continue getting the jab, saying the benefits far outweigh the risks. the risks of getting sick or dying of covid—19 for all of the people currently being offered first and second doses are far in a way greater than any small theoretical risk ...