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BBCNEWS Click January 25, 2020

The picture behind a pretty much sums up the weather for today. Over the cast across much of the uk, but there is a change on the way. Tomorrow we are expecting some rain. It will be raining across the west of the country there is pain in the morning on sunday. Overcast skies for the rest of today, around 8 degrees, and we are watching these quys degrees, and we are watching these guys to the north west of the country here with freshening wins and outbreaks of rain across the course of this evening. You can see there is where the front will move across western parts of the uk for the course of the night, so by the early hours of sunday it is just about reading any tip of cornwall there, wales and western parts of scotland. Through the course of the day, that weather front will reach other areas, so for some of there is a dry first half of the day, that wet in the afternoon of the east. The other way round in the west. In the lowlands of scotland, 5 degrees, still around 10 degrees in london. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines the death toll from the coronavirus rises to 41 authorities in china struggle to contain the outbreak as millions travel for the lunar new year. The virus has now spread to europe the French Health minister confirms three cases in france. At least 21 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. A charity Offering Mental Health support to military veterans says it cant take on new cases because of a funding crisis. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, building the next generation of spacecraft, dropping in on china and ripping up the streets of post brexit london. Three, two, one, zero. Getting into space is an expensive, dangerous, highly complicated business, where hundreds of thousands of precision made parts all have to Work Together perfectly. If they dont. But as the race back to space hots up, commercial ventures are looking for simpler, cheaper, quicker alternatives to building spacecraft. And here in la, ifound a startup trying to solve all of those problems in the unlikeliest of ways by 3d printing rockets. This is relativity space. Existing rocket bits are not 3d printed. What is the advantage of 3d printing . A lot of it, from our perspective, is flexibility. Traditionally, factories are made of tonnes of fixed tooling. Its then very expensive, very hard to change, then where you have to retool a factory in order to make a new product or even change a product slightly. For us, we can change all of that in software. So its digitising the manufacturing process and providing that flexibility, where, if you push new code to the printers and the hardware on the factory floor, you can actually make an entirely different product without changing anything in hardware. After a stint at spacex, jordan formed relativity space with his friend and ex blue origin engineer tim ellis. The two twenty somethings realised that 3d printing could help in several ways. Because it builds up objects layer by layer, it can produce complicated structures out ofjust one part. Also, much of the manufacturing can be done autonomously, which leads to a rather remarkable aim. The team wants to send robots to mars, which can then build rockets on the surface. And that means that the astronauts who eventually land there will have a way of getting home. Its both better, cheaper, faster. Its going to actually evolve more quickly than other technologies and well launch factories to mars, to actually build things like housing, spare parts and infrastructure, and eventually leading up to printing the first rockets. Why has no one done this before . No ones had a printer big enough to print something that big. And a lot of the challenge we had as a company was making printers big enough to make entire rockets within them. This is what the printing process looks like close up. A robot arm weaves backwards and forwards to lay down a thick layer of special high strength aluminium alloy. So this is it, the Worlds Largest metal 3d printer. Its currently printing the top of the first stage of the rocket, so the first bit that burns its fuel and is then jettisoned. This is the top of that. And if you look really closely, you can see that its very slowly rotating. It takes about an hour to go all the way around at the moment, and that means that the robot arm with all the hot stuff and the liquid metal stuff can stay relatively still as it weaves each layer. And that means you get a lot more precision. The whole thing will take about 10 12 days to print. I can wait. I dont know about you. And why have one giant 3d printer when you can have several running in parallel . Theyre basically off the shelf robot arms, all arc welding different rocket stages that, when put together, can stand 30 metres high. In its first five years, relativity space has already secured contracts with nasa and others. And next year, it hopes to make its first launch from Cape Canaveral in florida after becoming only the fourth commercial company to secure a launch there alongside the united launch alliance, blue origin and its la compatriots, spacex. And, sometime after that, mars beckons and the promise that anyone who journeys to the red planet is not making a one way trip after all. Departing the planet may be a trip for just a few hardy souls, but this friday, more than 60 million will be making a pretty historic departure themselves. Now, dont switch off because where were going is ever so slightly past the bonging, or not bonging, of big ben onjanuary 31st. No, were going a few years into the future, where, according to the makers of one video game, things post brexit are not going well. The game is the highly anticipated watch dogs legion, in which makers ubisoft suggest that society has, shall we say, deteriorated a bit. Marc cieslak was invited by ubisoft to their hq in toronto to take a very special look inside the game before the launch. This isnt the real piccadilly circus. None of this is real. Come to think of it, im not even real. This is a virtual version of me reporting from inside a video game. Ah, london had a good run there for a while. Watch dogs legion imagines a dystopian vision of a post brexit britain, a surveillance state governed by an oppressive regime. The player assumes the role of an activist and hacker who must recruit in Game Characters to their cause and ultimately bring down the government. We need to recruit a resistance. Legions the third instalment in the popularfranchise, developed by video Games Company ubisoft in its toronto studio. Were taking a lot of just influence from what we see in the world. Whether its the current political climate, whether its emerging technology, we find ways that we are inspired by those things, ways that were maybe a little bit afraid of these things and then we extrapolate out. A large area of london has been mapped for the game, and every character that you meet is playable their backstory and personality, as well as characteristics, filled in by the games Artificial Intelligence when the player approaches them. Any character that you see in the world. I guess theyre kind of like a level of dumbness, right . And then, as youre paying attention to the characters, they get smarter. As youre profiling them, and as youre getting more interested in them and as you decide to recruit them, we layer in more complexity into the character, but we always keep it consistent with what you initially saw. Technically interesting innovations, but is it asking for trouble using real world events like brexit in a game . The british people have spoken and the answer is. Were out. I want to put that to the games creative director clint hocking. But for this interview, were going to attempt something which has never been done before. Im going to perform an interview with a developer of a game inside their own video game. In orderfor my 3d model to be created, theyre going to need a whole bunch of images of me, which is whats going to happen in here. To do this, every minute detail of my face and body needs to be scanned so i can appear as a game character. And three, two, one. That was great. Its not like the photo me booth at the railway station. Real big its incredible how little we use our face like that, right . Next, its on with the performance capture suit, marker dots painted onto my face and im fitted with a head rig, which captures my facial movements. Now, be honest with me. How do i look . Is someone going to call action for us or are we just going to go . Now were ready for virtual lights, camera and action. Clint, why did you set this game in london . Well, you know, marc, i think london is an incredible city to set a video game in. Its not just full of culture and historic landmarks and all kinds of amazing places that people want to go to and visit, its also an incredible city full of cultural diversity. It was really important for us to be able to make sure we were simulating, not just the city and everything thats going on that you see around you, but also the population and her people. Brexit has been hugely divisive in the uk and quite a lot of people are going to be quite angry that its been included in a video game. Well, i look at it as a creator of culture. If we were creating films or movies or books, its the same with video games, you know . Its our responsibility to look at the things that are happening in the world around us and have something to say about that, to create something thats meaningful and that people can look at and engage with and it speaks to the world that they live in. This games been in development for four years and global events move very, very quickly indeed. Have you included any more of those events in the game itself . Well, marc, things are changing around us all the time. And every day, we have to look at whats happening in the world and make decisions about what were going to be able to include in our simulation. We look at regulations for drones flying in the skies, there are Autonomous Vehicles in traffic and we have to think, are these things that we want to include in our simulation and make playable for players in our game universe . So its something we think about a great deal. Clint hocking, thank you very much indeed. Thank you. This is marc cieslak for bbc news, in a virtual version of london. Hello, and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week saudi arabia was accused of hacking the phone of amazons billionaire founder jeff bezos. Crown prince mohammad bin salman is alleged to have sent an encrypted video file via whatsapp, which saudi arabia denies. It was revealed that since the introduction of gdpr in 2018, the eu has imposed 114 Million Euros in fines, with regulators in france, germany and austria handing out the biggest fines so far. Is it a bird . Is it a plane . Yes and no. Its a pigeon bot. Researchers at Stanford University have built a robot bird using real pigeon feathers. The team believe their findings could inspire future aircraft wing design. Quite the coup how would you feel about sharing a ride in a driverless car without a Steering Wheel . The origin, made by General Motors own crews, is also missing pedals and a rear view mirror. Its developers, which also include honda, hope that multiple occupancy electric vehicles will reduce emissions, accidents and congestion. And finally, spending too much time on your smartphone . Google suggests putting it in an envelope. Google envelope is an app used in conjunction with a paper cover you can print out at home. The combo can dumb down your device so it can only make and receive calls or transform it into a photo and video camera with no screen, although it only currently works on the pixel 3a. Will it work . Answers on a postcard. A couple of years ago, amid terrible wildfires in the us, we went on location with californias firefighters to see how they were using tech to battle the blazes. Drones have become a big tool in the firefighters arsenal, but for how much longer will they fly . Earlier this month, the Trump Administration called for all chinese made drones to be banned from governmental work. And where are most drones made . Yeah, thats right. Fears were raised that they could be used for spying and the us now wants its own drone tech to catch up with china. This, then, is another tech battle brewing between the us and china. And could this ruling ultimately effect innovation in delivery . And with such a large population, china is looking at this and many other ways to speed up the delivery process. Its already making a lot of headway, so could president trumps anti chinese stance now end up stymieing Us Innovation in this area . Stephen beckett delivered this from guangzhou. When you think of drones, perhaps you think of Something Like this. Or maybe this. Well, how about this . So this is ehangs testing headquarters in guangzhou, and this is their passenger drone that they are developing. The idea is that this could ferry passengers from a to b around the world and it could even be flying in the skies in the next couple of months. It can go 135 miles per hourfor up to 35 km, so you can imagine if it takes off, it could be a pretty quick way to get around. So this what it looks like inside. Got a little cockpit that you can climb into and you can close the door. Get yourself nice and cosy. And theres even a seat belt. This can carry up to 220 kilograms, so a couple of passengers, and. You know, its pretty cosy but if it gets you there quickly, that could be all right. The whole Aviation Industry has, you know, existed for a century and there was nothing fundamental changed in the past one century. Ehang as a company, we started to think about building a passenger aircraft, you know, self piloting ones, starting from many years ago. We thought, is there any alternative . Is there any way that we can make a safer, you know, aircraft in the future . At the moment, theyre working on getting commercial approval to fly flights over the city. But they havent got that yet, so that has to go up unmanned at the moment, so welljust have to watch. Wow that is pretty serious imagine that flying over your city. Youd definitely know about it. Its certainly a glimpse into the future and it could make delivering people and packages very quick indeed. But instead of going physically faster, another way for deliveries to arrive sooner is to store them closer to where they need to go. Jd. Com, chinas second Biggest Online retailer, has been trying to dojust this in beijing. People in china dont tend to drink a lot of tap water. That means, in cities at least, theyre probably drinking a lot of bottled water instead. That means theyve got to get it delivered to their house. And if theyre doing that, then its got to come from a place like this. This is a water station. To get water at the moment, you have to phone one of the many local companies. Its all very manual and can be quite slow. Translation people are no longer satisfied with a 24 hour or even a half day delivery. What they want is a situation where, say, youre making your dinner at home, you need rice or water delivered to your kitchen asap and there it is. Jd could be called chinas answer to amazon. Its got big warehouses. But that means they can only be so close to the centre of the city. And thats where the water stations come in. Dotted around beijing, they essentially act as jd depots in miniature. So now, you order water on an app and jd automatically sends the order through to a water station close to you. It could be one just around the corner and they say that makes it really quick. So, we wanted to see this in action. So our fixer has gone to a house on the other side of town. Shes about to put in an order. We are going to chase it and see if it gets there. Shes put the order in, so we are just waiting for it to come through. Very exciting. Follow that tuk tuk so were here. Took about 20 minutes. I think thats the fastest it can be. I think it can be anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple of hours depending on where they are in the city, how busy they are, that sort of thing. But all of this innovation may only be possible because of a unique situation in china. In china, delivery workers are not contracted. They arent paid minimum wages or have any kind of Social Security net. And theyre basically earning money on a piecemeal basis of, say, 50 cents for every delivery that they make. That leads to a huge number of precarious workers that really are supplying the foundations of the online economy in china. In developed economies like the uk, where there is minimal wages and wage levels are generally higher, the cut that delivery would take of Many Services would make them possibly unviable for people to buy. Remember ehang . Theyve also been working on a trial to deliver, amongst other things, fast food. So this app actually lets you get things delivered to you by drone. Theres a few different options, different people, that are offering the service. Well get some fast food today and i think well order six coffees because theres a few people here. We just need to pick our drone delivery zone. Theres only one nearby, which is one just outside, and if we pay now, we should have some coffee touchdown ill see if i can get into it. This is a coffee thats come from, it looks like, mcdonalds. So presumably theres a mcdonalds somewhere thats got a drone port. Well, its certainly slightly more complicated than a cafeteria. Than a cafeteria , cafetiere. Thats it. Back to wherever it came from. Not entirely convinced that you want to do it to order a coffee, but you can imagine if you needed an urgent parcel or Something Like that, that could be pretty helpful. But you dont want that landing in your backyard, do you, really . I think drone ports like these make a lot of sense. Theres no doubt that what theyre doing in delivery here is pretty innovative. But the question is, can the Business Models that make sense in china still work in other places around the world . In the race to go global, the real challenge could be making sure that regulation and safety come along for the ride. That was steve in china. Now, much earlier than normal, we find ourselves in oscars season. Its the Academy Awards in a few weeks time. And between now and then, were going to be meeting the people behind the most innovative developments in the movies that are up for the awards. And we start with this monster hit. Whatever it takes. This show had so many challenges, i think, because its s

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