Youre up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week revving up your router. Giant rappers in lockdown. And longships and loud vikings. 0din is with us hello you, and hello lara, how are you doing . Hello, im good thank you, and you seem to have cut your hair. Yes, the haircut has finally happened and i have to say, the relationship survived. There was no blood and to be honest, i think she has done a pretty good job, dont you . It is looking good, but has the colour changed a bit . Yes, i am trying a new artificial silver colour, shall we say dont worry i will be returning to my natural colour of suspiciously brown as soon as i can get back to a proper hairdresser. You have had a good week, you had a lockdown birthday. Thats right, it was very nice but i dont think the years need to count in lockdown. In your house, though, there has been an important birthday. I had the terrifying task of hosting a 10th birthday for my son and seven of his friends on video chat. I thought, what am i going to do . I normally do the silly games for the parties so what will i do in lockdown . I decided to do a quiz, so i knocked up some google slides, i used screen sharing so everyone could see them and off we went. So heres what we did. We played guess the objects, obviously it is a cat, then i got a photo of my son and everyone had to guess whose eyes i put on him. Most of them, interestingly, got henry viii, steve from minecraft, and elsa fascinatingly nobody got lack ofa dog. And my four year old daughter was the only one to get this. Thats a my little pony. Its pinkie pie, youre absolutely correct. Of course. And its notjust children who are missing events. We all are. And music has been a real casualty of this so much has been cancelled, Music Festivals are off, the venues are closed, and its hard to imagine when wed next be going to a concert. True, but musicians are not giving up so easily. This is not your typical gig venue. But earlier this month, more than 700,000 people logged in live to watch helsinkis annual may day concert performed in this virtual arena. Complete with digital fireworks. Fans far away as the usa and germany jammed online with finish wrappers jvg. With finnish rappers jvg. Now, virtual gigs arent new. Last year 10 Million People watched dj marshmello headline the first concert held inside the game fortnite. Then in stomped rapper travis scott to smash that record in april when 12. 3 million players logged in to watch his astronomical event live. Now i assumed that despite the huge audience figures, thisjust wouldnt appeal to the more traditional musicians, who thrive from playing to a live audience. I mean, world famous jazz genius jamie cullum would think this is an absolute travesty, right . I love this idea. Im a big computer game fan, so in recent years as Computer Games have got more advanced, im not an Online Player so much but i love the big open world games like grand theft auto, the last of us, red dead redemption, they really thought very hard about their soundtracks. Ive actually discovered music through the radio stations as you drive around in a stolen car in grand theft auto. I would be first in line if they had opened up a jazz club in grand theft auto and i could play in it, or any type of concert. So all bets are off it seems, and anything is possible. While ive been at the jazz clubs, minecraft gamers have taken it upon themselves to create their own massive gigs from their bedroom. 0pen pit started in may 2018 when producer dj friend max schramp decided to throw his 21st birthday in minecraft. And it went better than anyone expected. Since then hundreds of thousands of fans attended their festivals to see massive music stars like 100 gecs and charli xcx. Its the only game that really allows us to do what we do. We have no affiliation to microsoft or minecraft and we can still run our events completely independently. And musicians have started to build their own arenas too. As a tribute to the cancelled music fest south by southwest, indie band courier club have launched block by blockwest. If you are a small artist in a small musical niche, its going to be really hard for you to pack a club out and tour the world, or rather, even tour your nation. But if you can book a show on a virtual platform and bring everyone thats spread out in your community together, you can put on a full show, and you could monetise it and the money could go directly to the artist, rather than kind of circumventing through third parties. The idea is that it breaks down financial barriers, it breaks down geographical barriers and it kind of disrupts the whole festival circuit. And for artists like pussy riot, breaking down political barriers is just as important as breaking financial ones. For me it opens up the possibility to play for a russian audience, like i really wish i could play physically, but even when it was not coronavirus, pussy riot are still enemies of the state so sometimes when we just leave the house, cops are arresting us forjust bleep leaving the house. Im originally from a small provincial town, and western musicians, they never come to these cities, it doesnt matter if it is coronavirus not coronavirus time. So it doesnt matter where you are, you can have access to this concert, thats awesome. So i think thats the future, to just cut all the people in the middle who take the money, basically, while producing nothing. And so to the question of money. In these extraordinary times, many artists are giving their performances away for free, or like during twitch streamaid, to encourage donations for health workers. But if artists are already making less money from their music sales, can they really afford to give away their Live Performances for nothing . You have got what erykah badu was doing, she is charging for hers and making it like a full production. And her argument is even though im not about to go bankrupt, i have a big crew of people and by bringing them together and making some money out of this we can keep things going. She has done some incredibly experimental stuff. Of course there is no substitute for a real gig but i think its wonderful for artists to stay connected to the people who love their music. And just as physical venues split concerts fees with the artist, virtual venues are exploring the same idea. Over the course of the last few years we have seen a quadrupling in the amount of non gaming content on twitch. I do think that one of our sustainable strengths over time that will ensure that musicians have a high likelihood of continuting to broadcast on twitch after social distancing ends, is they will see this is an entirely new revenue stream. Even if artists can make money from online performances, you have to admit the atmosphere of an actual Live Performance is pretty unique. I asked chart topping artist andrewjohn hozier byrne, better known as hozier, about gigging online. Its just that hard feeling of knowing that there could be hundreds or thousands of people looking at you at the moment and youre in stark silence. Thats very, very odd. Once the messages start coming in there is a sense of 0k, there is a community there, and that is a very, very good feeling. Im reading your messages, guys, thank you so much. I was quite surprised i have to say how fulfilling that was, having interacted in real time with people. Which, to be fair, is not something you can do in a gig. Take me to church, ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your light. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that google subsidiary Sidewalk Labs decided to pull the plug on its controversial Smart City Project in toronto. London based facewatch said that it will update its security cameras to recognise people even when they are wearing a mask. And chinese autonomous Aerial Company ehang announced they would be building a hotel themed around passenger drone travel. The company has recently shown off several demos of passenger flights without pilots. It was also the week that twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey said his employees could work from home forever. He said it will be his decision went to reopen twitters offices, but its up to workers if they want to come back, with the option to work at home indefinitely. Razor blades and needles have been found hidden in anti 5g posters on telegraph poles in the uk. These discoveries follow a series of attacks on engineers fuelled by conspiracy theories wrongly linking 5g to the spread of coronavirus. Singapore released robot hounds to police social distancing. Spot, boston dynamics robot dog has been fitted with a camera to monitor how busy one of the countrys parks gets. It has a loudspeaker to bark messages on keeping far enough apart. And finally, some of the highest resolution images ofjupiter ever seen were released this week after years of observations. Using a technique called lucky imaging, scientist acquired multiple exposures of the planet, putting them together in a mosaic. The team behind the images says it rivals the view from space. Audio glitching. One of the biggest culprits of bad quality video on a Conference Call is poor wi fi signal. Maybe you are sitting too far away from the router with solid walls between you and it, or perhaps other people in your household are hammering the Wi Fi Network with streaming videos and games. We also host diplomats and other foreign leaders when they visit. Or it could be that the channel your wi fi is being carried on by your router is just too crowded with other routers. This wifi analyzer app for android will reveal what is going on around you. There are a range of channels available and most routers default to the same few. That is why you see everybody crowded around down here. But see this . Thats me out of my own, a bandwidth hog of the ninth order. So how did i get that vip channel just for me . Well, its not that hard. But dont tell everyone, 0k . You need to open your routers admin tools which can be accessed by entering the default gateway ip in the address bar of any browser on a device connected to the router. Your ip address may well be the same as mine, so give that a try. If not, open your network and internet settings then view your Network Properties to find the default address. Youll need the admin password, which if you have never accessed this part of your router before, should be in the paperwork that came with it. In the wireless settings, if five gigahertz is available make sure that it enabled. To change your wifi channel you might need to take it off auto settings, then just use a different channel and see if it improves the signal. One final quality tip to get you going set your camera at eye level and make sure the strongest light source is in front of and not behind you. So all of us have had to adapt the way that we work, but for some disabled people that has made getting to grips with a completely new way of communicating. And paul carter has been finding out more. In just the course of a few weeks, through a screen has rapidly become one of the main ways we stay in touch with friends, with family, but also our colleagues. But for one section of the community, that change has brought some other very specific challenges. So i am profoundly deaf. My voice is very deceptive but i dont hear you, you sound awesome. For the deaf and hearing impaired community, this change has meant an increasing reliance on a rapidly developing and improving technology, live captioning, which uses ai to produce real time on screen transcriptions of what a person is saying, as you can see below. And most of the major platforms now include it. One person with experience of this on both side of the fence is microsoft chief accessibility officer, jenny lay flurrie, who i spoke to with the assistance of her sign language interpreter. The accuracy of our own captions has steadily increased, very quickly as a result of artificial intelligence. They are now really, in most scenarios, a superb illustration of what is being set. A superb illustration of what is being said. Are they perfect . No. And i think captioning was something where there was a lot of nerves, in some ways a lot of empowerment that came from it, but also some nerves. That is changing. But live caption are only one solution and they are not suitable for everyone. The Disability Charity scope, have put together a comprehensive breakdown of the accessibility features of all the major video calling platforms and they have concerns about the range of access across different programmes. In accessible video calls softwood, it was already an issue for in accessible video calls software, it was already an issue for disabled people. This technology was available before covid 19 and automated captions have been around for a really long time. The fact that there isnt consistent accessibility features, quality, availability across the different platforms really demonstrates how low on the priority list accessibility has been. What i will say about disabled people is that they are the original life hackers. When you talk to disabled people, that is not ideal, what they really deserve is equality of access to put up some services for any business. Really, our key message to individual developers and organisations who develop those apps is to ensure that the needs of blind and partially sighted people are taken on board when youre designing and developing apps and updates to those apps. Developers have to continue to test. Youve got to test, test, test. Theirapp, their updates, new versions of those apps as they come through a development phase. They need to be tested with real users. If there is one thing that we as a community are is born problem solvers and this one is a little bigger than the normal sized problem that we have to deal with. Every aspect of the disability is having its own learning curve and i think in years to come, we will write down these learnings for future generations. But even with new solutions, comes new problems. Could one of the tiny glimmers of light from this pandemic be that it kicks starts even accessibility development. When you put technology and when you put use through a completely new set of scenarios, which is what were doing right now, youre going to get an enormous amount of learning and youre also going to generate a huge amount of innovation on the back of it. One, i would say there is an enormous amount of stuff out there to help employers, help employees work in the remote world. We are doing it and there are moments and days where it is not easy but i would say it is a lot easier than we thought it was going to be and so really, really, i just know that it is entirely possible. That was paul. And i have been looking forward to this for weeks. This is my old friend mark who i have not seen in the flesh for months. Hello, mate, how have you been . We are ok, juggling childcare and working for the same space. Which is. Interesting, the probably best way of putting it. Very politely put, yes. It isjust mad. We talked earlier about music events being cancelled for the foreseeable future. Film and tv production is off at the moment as well . It is very difficult to socially distance on movie and tv drama sets so they have had to completely shut down. Interestingly, you have directors like james gunn, saying on twitter hes the guy who made guardians of the galaxy that he is actually working on the postproduction to his new movie, suicide squad, at home. Co ordinating with the rest of the team that are working on that but if youre trying to film anything right now, all of that is completely shut down. Then theres the other form of entertainment, videogames. We normally would be going to the e3 video game show injune thats not happening, that is your busmans holiday so i do not know what you are going to do it this summer. What is your take on how the video Game Industry has or has not been effected here . Videogames, rather than having to film everything, every bit of a video game is generated on software and on hardware so the videogames industry is in a unique position. Instead of working together in an office or studio, they have packed up their kit and are continuing to work at home. It is quite incredible, really. I have spoken to a lot of Game Developers over the past couple of weeks they are actually happy working from home. They feel more productive, they do not have no distractions. So actually, really, unlike other creative industries, they do not need to be in the offices, they are just connected and they can work wherever they are. 0ne game where developers are doing just that is the next assassins creed which is expected to release later this year. In a move less surprising than discovering bears do indeed use the woods as a lavatory, ubisoft has announced a viking theme for this outing in a long running series. Rumours that the historical third person action games next costume change would involve hats with horns have been swirling around the internet for months. They murder and kill blindly. And by 0dens raven, i caught up with the games creative director via video call with him in montreal. For a chat about assassins creed valhalla. How has the lockdown due to covid 19 pandemic affected the development of this title . Some adapting had to be done to kind of work in this new reality but we have a lot of incredible software. You realise all of a sudden when you are pushed into this kind of context that it is actually quite feasible, we are in quite good shape to be able to manage the way we handle our communication, our reviews. We have the tools we need so it is going quite well overall. A franchise like assassins creed is very big, it is something of a juggernaut. Is there a pressure to get it completed in spite of the coronavirus lockdown . Oh, i would say with our fan base and what we try to achieve, there is always this internal pressure to deliver a high quality experience. This is what we strive for, this is our ambition. We check week by week on how we are in terms of productivity and efficiency and it is something we continue to monitor for sure but our ambitions and our goals have not changed. The player assumes the role of a viking who has had enough of the fjords and leaves his people in norway to resettled in england. A move which does not go down well at all with the locals. Vikings are famous for turning up, smashing stuff and stealing things. How is that going to be expressed . Of course, there is raiding. You have a long ship, you have a crew on the long ship, a Raiding Party that you can customise. Then we have the settlement which is at the heart of the motivation of the journey. So were building a home, a new settlement in england. We offer now in the combat system, dual building so players can pretty much put any weapon they want, any combination of weapons. If you want to play with two s