This week racing and cheating under lockdown. Are the next generation of games consoles under threat . And face masks, but not as you know them. Hey there. Hope youre doing 0k. La ra hey there. Hope youre doing 0k. Lara is. Yeah, lara looks absolutely fine, you have taken to wearing shades indoors, should i be worried . Dont worry, there is a good reason for this which i will explain ina good reason for this which i will explain in a moment. I have been on a mission to find the best wireless sound, so i started off with some True Wireless earbuds. First stop, these from jabra which are meant to be great for active use. But i found as soon as i started running they fell out of my ears. Great sound but not so much use when it is on the floor. Then i tried these by edifier, one third of the price, but they are lighter so that in full out a little bit less, but the battery life is so fantastic that i was almost forgiving of that as long as they dont fall down a drain because that would obviously be a problem. But with all the falling out of my ea rs but with all the falling out of my ears maybe i actually have something strange going on with my ears. Funny it isa strange going on with my ears. Funny it is a thing . It is a thing, i have been told i have tiny ear canals so i have a real problem with india headphones. Whenever i wear them they keep self projecting, trust me. I think these other solution. The bose frames they sound out of small speakers and they have a microphone in them. So you are sorted. The only thing is they are not the most flattering sunglasses but they work well for running. They look absolutely fine. Talking about running and sport in general we have seen the return of some sport now behind closed doors. 0ne spot that is still officially off at the moment is motor racing, although they have found a really interesting way to kind of keep going. 0mar has been for a drive, but he has also discovered that with new Technology Comes new opportunities for cheating. With esports more popular than ever we are seeing that the raw emotion, big money and intense competition that make real life sport so compelling are also at its core. But. Just like in any regular sport, cheating is an inevitability. I am questioning if it was really daniel in the car. Like many sports, formula e, the all electric racing series, decided to suspend all of their races after the pandemic yet. But while the season was postponed, drivers were still wearing to go. So formula e decided to continue in spite of the pandemic. Virtually. So its real life professional drivers would enter the gaming world to race against each other in an esports competition, the race at home challenge. All drivers compete from their own homes assuming a gaming simulator called r factor two. But this take things further than using a normal gaming controller. 0liver rowland is a formula e driver for nissen and has this huge rig in his home. It includes professional steering wheel, pedals and a seat reacts to stimulation. But could this have a matchup to the feeling ofa this have a matchup to the feeling of a real racecar . I have been spending probably six, seven hours on the simulator a day, so you get pretty tired, you tend to get worse towards the end of the day. I think the general feeling is the graphics, the general feeling is the graphics, the tracks, everything is very close. Of course you dont get the feeling of the car, so you rely more on visual things which takes you a bit longer to get used to but i think i am actually extremely impressed with what we have been sent. It is notjust professional races who get to take part. 0n the weekend there is a separate race just for gamers, and the winner gets to drive around the track in a real live formula e generation to car. If you want to take part in the race on the weekend, you have to set a really good lap time in order to qualify. So im going to give it a go. And theyve sent me one of these to try on it is very easy to lose control, or even have the well crack your knuckles if you lose your grip. Its not moving properly, how doi grip. Its not moving properly, how do i break a fake car . But after several tries i set a pretty decent time. Also i thought. I came dead last. Which is not surprising as these gamers are the real deal. They spend an hour after hour training, and intensely studying the mechanics, not only of a car but the game itself too. But the racer i challenged did not generate race at home challenge did not generate the positive response that organises hope for. And it may be remembered for the wrong reasons. Recently and audi sports driver was found to cheat during a race, in fact he didnt race at all. Managing to obscure his face on the feet it was actually a programmer behind the wheel. 0ther actually a programmer behind the wheel. Other drivers immediately voiced their suspicions after daniel abt, not true to form, did well. Voiced their suspicions after daniel abt, not true to form, did welllj am questioning if it was daniel in the car. By crossreferencing ip address, formula e found that abt was not behind the wheel. Audi took no time in sucking abt who was also disqualified in that race by formula e. And the gamer was banned from ever entering a formula e event again. Sacking apps. Sacking abt. So from this it is clear that abt didnt take the esports race as healer seriously as a real life one. We reached out to formula e who declined to make a statement on abts declined to make a statement on abts cheating and how they will address the strategy to prevent it happening again in future. Just think about this for a second. Teaching or not, i gamerjust came third ina teaching or not, i gamerjust came third in a race with highly trained professional drivers. People are starting to understand that there is a big difference between a casual gamer and a big difference between a casual gamerand a a big difference between a casual gamer and a professional seem racer. The speed that these guys managed to extract from the cars over a lap just shows how dedicated they are to the sport. There is bound to be some kind of Transferable Skills that in the real world. Kind of Transferable Skills that in the realworld. So could kind of Transferable Skills that in the real world. So could this be a new way of identifying talent . guess a typical motorsport person might say, can they do it if you put them ina might say, can they do it if you put them in a car . That is what were going to put to test this initiative. I think at the end when you have that prize, perhaps we can provide a pathway into a Real Motorsport career. That was really interesting, and the thing that i love was that the driver was just wearing socks like many of us working from home. This is the truth. It is all about the socks. You know how big the videogames industry is these days, it is bigger than hollywood. And in factjune is usually the time of the annual videogames extravaganza e3 nla. And sony had big plans for 2020, they we re sony had big plans for 2020, they were going to launch the xbox series act and the playstation five respectively. 2020 of course had other plans. Yes, e3 has been cancelled because of the pandemic and of course they have been protests across america following the death of george floyd in police custody. There was supposed to be a pss custody. There was supposed to be a ps5 launch this week but sony has decided to postpone it saying that now was not the time for celebration. We think the consoles will still launch this year and microsoft has already revealed quite a bit about its xbox series act. Mark has caught up with the head of xbox to find out how the coronavirus is likely to affect an industry which has helped many through the isolation of lockdown. Millions of people across the globe have performed a similar procedure during lockdown. Sometimes its to entertain themselves, or be transported outside of their homes. Chat with friends and family, or plain old pass the time. These are all things that xbox head hangzhou phil spencer has been monitoring during lockdown. Not everybody plays games, over half the connected world does, nearly 2. 6 billion people, and the fact that people can use games asa the fact that people can use games as a way to continue to stimulate and find new stories, new creators and find new stories, new creators and new friends and able to go play with is a great thing about our community. You have a new console coming out this year, how has the covid i9 pandemic affected plans for the launch of the xbox series x . Early on as we were starting to deal with work from home, a lot of questions about what was going to happen with supply chain, testing our hardware, first and foremost the safety a nd our hardware, first and foremost the safety and security of our team, but when i look at the hardware production now i feel really good, we have test kits at home, we are all using them and testing so we are getting ours on our test kits to ensure that everything is working the way it should. The supply chains in terms of getting the retail build to look like, those things will be uninterrupted. Probably had a couple of weeks missing a testing cycle just as we got to speed with things, but i feel like we will be able to absorb a lot of that in the schedule andi absorb a lot of that in the schedule and i feel really good about our launch this fall. A console is never more expensive that when it launches. With so much Economic Uncertainty on the horizon, is this a bad time to launch a new machine . The thing i am focused on the most is just the macroeconomic environment. We see that the impact right now of people getting furloughed, layoffs, it isjust, it is tough, and knowing that in the case of gaming, we are leisure activities, we are not a requirement, when not food or shelter, if this is not the year where some family wants to make the decision to buy a near xbox, thats 0k. 0ur decision to buy a near xbox, thats 0k. Our strategy does not revolve around how many xboxs i sell this year. It is notjust hardware that is being developed by teams working from home. People creating games are working in this way as well. Microsoft owned studio mojang, the Developers Behind the hugely popular game minecraft, were putting the finishing touches on their game minecraft dungeons when the pandemic hit. Other team we are semi used to working remotely. We are in stockholm and we have our sister studio in redmond, so we already have this sort of Cross Atlantic communication going on. So we already had a lot of the infrastructure set up to be able to work remotely. So the games are still being developed and the plan is still for next consoles to arrive at the end of this year. Hello and welcome to the weekend tech. It week intact. It was the week that staff at Facebook Says a visual walkout in a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg after civil rights leader said he was setting a dangerous precedent by allowing a post by donald trump to remain on the platform. Tell a conference at zoom saw huge profits between february and april this year, more than double that for the same period last year because of the uptake during the current ice pandemic. And even journalist arent safe from the machine takeover. Microsoft have planned to replace their msn news Creation Team with al from july. We all like a ceo scenic phone wallpaper but some Android Users found as a little too dramatic. This colourful la keview has found as a little too dramatic. This colourful lakeview has been causing some samsung and google pixel users to crash. We are not sure why yet but we dont recommend trying this at home. What is more cute than one retro games console . How about four. Sega has unveiled four micro consoles, each with a different colour and different set of games. The tinyi. 5 inch colour and different set of games. The tiny 1. 5 inch display will come with a magnifying screen but for now only for those willing to get a pack of all four. And finally how can a robot be helped to find the difference between strong and soft . 0ne team has the answer. They have developed venus fly trap origami robot hand which can pick up on objects as much as 100 times its weight as well as carefully handling more delicate objects. If im stuck at home, i might as well use this time to do something creative. How many of you have thought Something Like that during this lockdown . Easy to think, not so easy to do because in practice, inspiration doesnt a lwa ys in practice, inspiration doesnt always flow freely. So, here are my top picks for creativity boosters. The Glucksman Museum for Creative Learning are testing a series of free creative and home projects. Short challenges like splash and doodle that come with a supportive worksheet and help kickstart your imagination. I didnt have any paint to do this splash and doodle so i used a little extra dose of creativity and dug out some dusty old bottles of food colouring. Good housekeeping magazine has been broadcasting live craft classes twice a week on facebook live. All the episodes are there to enjoy still a great collection of crafty time fillers you can do with or without any kids. If youre the arty type and already have an idea of what you want to create, sketch book isa what you want to create, sketch book is a free and user friendly drawing and painting app available for any device. Theres loads of different pen tips and brush styles, giving you artistic freedom to express yourself. If youre new to digital sketching, the Youtube Channel is packed with tutorials to get you moving. Perhaps your creativity is more of the musical kind. In which case, fancy a hand at djing . Virtually, of course post a club night for yourfriends virtually, of course post a club night for your friends on plug virtually, of course post a club night for yourfriends on plug dj. It is free to join, create an avatar and create a playlist. Then invite friends tojoin and create a playlist. Then invite friends to join and you can hang and create a playlist. Then invite friends tojoin and you can hang out together chatting and taking turns together chatting and taking turns to control the music. 0r together chatting and taking turns to control the music. Or you can stretch your vocal cords by signing up stretch your vocal cords by signing upfor stretch your vocal cords by signing up for the sofa singers, which is what im doing this weekend. You dont have to be a good singer, no one else is going to hear you and you dont have to be sat at your sofa. Its just about singing together with others. Ok, anyway. Lets get the clicks going. 0ne, two, three and. The moment i wake up. Registrations for the week open on sunday evening, with limited places on the zoom calls and for that weeks sessions. But if you just dont have the Emotional Energy for creativity right now, dont worry, ive got you covered. Take a stroll through the up covered. Take a stroll through the up worthy instagram feed. Its a veritable feast of all the best things we humans are capable of. That was kate. Speaking of getting creative, it seems facemasks could be becoming the new must have fashion accessory, so chris foxx has been getting right on trend click style. This might be the coolest facemask ive seen. Created by game developer tyler and the lights respond to the sign of your voice. After he posted it on twitter i thought i have a go at making it myself as a novelty to wear on video calls and i thought it would be an easy project how wrong i was the components or Something Like this came to about £40, most of which went on this flexible led matrix. I needed a tiny microphone to pick up my voice an microprocessor to run the code. It took a lot longer than expected to get it working and tylers code was written for specific components i didnt have and i ended up working into the night to fix all the issues. Big thanks to tyler and eve ryo ne issues. Big thanks to tyler and everyone else on twitter who a nswered everyone else on twitter who answered my questions to get this to work. Hello 0nce hello once i had my mask working, i hopped ona once i had my mask working, i hopped on a video call with tyler to talk about the project. So, tyler, thirst of all tell me, why did you want to create this busy yellow because its cool i had a random idea for it, i wondered if it existed, the kind of facemask and would light up mouth shapes. I looked around online to if theres anything i could conceivably buy that would do this. There really wasnt anything there. In terms of practicality, is there something youre going to wear out and about . Probably planning to wear it out to the store once, i wore it out once already but its very impractical compared to a normal surgical mask. Lots of people have shared their pictures with their mask, are you surprised its gone viral . It is cool to people sharing their versions, some made it independently before mine went viral. Is this the finished product for you, are you thinking about adding anything else to the mask . Its done at this point, its already been a month to play around to get to this point. I wa nted play around to get to this point. I wanted to make it to have a different mouth, an e or oh, a lower pitched sound mode to sell the effect a little bit more. I sort of got it working but it didnt work. I just didnt go with that idea, but thats about it. Im not planning on selling them, so youre going to have to make your own. Tyler shared his code and a how to guide on twitter, but a few words of caution from me, iwouldnt twitter, but a few words of caution from me, i wouldnt say this is a guinea project because you dont have the exact same components as tyler, his code wont work for you, and the components do run quite hot soi and the components do run quite hot so i cant recommend you strap Something Like this to your face and definitely not for children. Theres other designs out there so worth digging around for inspiration. 0ne idea is a clear plastic window for people that liberate. If you decide to customise your mask, make sure you sterilise it, the fabric is machine washable lipread. I can sterilise the led with ultraviolet uvc but i willjust keep this one as a novelty to be honest. That was so cool, was it us . Chris foxx, and i mightjust weara mask for ever after seeing that and now we have more flashing lights for you. Throughout the pandemic so far, weve been trying to show our carers that we care with total applause if nothing else, but recently i met up with a friend of the show whos been going a little bit further. If you were in brighton over the last few weeks, you might have seen this. So, feel, wouldnt it be fun to actually setup some of my lasers on the roof terrace and see what i could hit with my lasers. And thats how megalomania starts said isa thats how megalomania starts said is a professional laserist and to say before he showed his love for the nhs in this way, he got omission from the lease and aviation authorities. And if he looks familiar, well, you might have seen him wowing us at click live 2018. He created a dance show where the audience control the lasers using their mobile phones and the dancers improvise moves that follow the beams. And a lot of his work has been putting on laser shows for various cities during festivals. But restrictions on Mass Gatherings have thrown this years like festivals into doubt, and that gave said his next crazy idea. I thought, what can i make next crazy idea. I thought, what can imakea next crazy idea. I thought, what can i make a lights show that would be fine whatever level of restrictions. I created this idea called laser light city. I think ive got my theme tune city. Its called laser light city and the idea and i install lasers on iconic landmarks around the city pointing lights up to the sky, but the fun part is ill give the residents in the city the opportunity to operate these lasers through their mobile phones and you can go to my website and just with your thing going you can move these enormous beams around. Thats a light show that can work no matter what the restrictions are you can see it from your window, from your garden, from your pathways. And in fa ct, garden, from your pathways. And in fact, seb hopes these kind of light shows will one day replace a form of entertainment he thinks has had its day. Fireworks are sparkly and bright and beautiful, but theyre hundreds of years Old Technology now. Their problematic these days for so many reasons. I now. Their problematic these days for so many reasons. I guess now. Their problematic these days for so many reasons. I guess the argument to keep them is we havent really had anything as bright and brilliant and accessible, but now we dont have that argument because weve got lasers, weve got superbright leds. Lockdown or no lockdown, the laser light show may be coming to a city near you, although certain bonus lighting effects are although certain bonus lighting effects a re not although certain bonus lighting effects are not guaranteed. Love it how much do we all need some fun right now . I do actually agree about fireworks, i feel the same. Its true fireworks are not everyones tea, are they . Anyway, thatisit everyones tea, are they . Anyway, that is it from us for this week. You can keep up with the team throughout the week on social media, on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter bbcclick. Thank you so much for continuing to watch and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Well, its certainly not going to feel like a day injune out there on saturday. And certainly not compared to what we had last week, when temperatures were in the mid to high 20s. Saturday is going to be a blustery one with further showers. And low pressure is firmly in charge of our weather. You can see the clouds circling around the area of low pressure very close to scotland, and actually through the early hours, were seeing a band of cloud and rain slipping southwards across the uk, accompanied by some pretty strong winds. Its the weather front thats linked to this low pressure, and this low pressure will hang around through most of saturday and then by sunday, it looks as though its going to clear away. But through the early hours, weve got a band of more persistent rain stretching from the north, moving due south. It does look as though the south of the country is actually going to wake up to some sunshine, but look how that cloud, that rain bearing cloud slips southwards through the course of the day, so i think most of us will catch at least a little bit of rain. But the chances are that during the afternoon the skies will clear across more northern parts of the country and the sun will come out. But its across the south, middle of the afternoon, where well probably have most of the cloud and the outbreaks of rain. Now, the wind arrows you can see here, those are the gusts of wind, and in places they are in excess of 40 mph, perhaps even up to 50. 50 mph in gusts isjust about gale force, and thats a strong wind for the time of the year. Certainly whipping those trees around. Now, the temperatures in the sunshine in the north will probably peak at around 19 degrees, for example in the lowlands of scotland. But further south, we are talking more like the low or the mid teens, and it is going to feel nippy in those gusty winds. And the showers will continue into saturday night and the early hours of sunday, but there is an indication that that low pressure and its weather front will drift a little bit further towards the east during the course of sunday. So, yes, sunday on the north sea coast blustery with showers, but even here, they will eventually fade a little bit later on in the day. And i think for most of us, overall, sunday is looking better, particularly the further west and the north you are. So, again, another fine day in glasgow. And the outlook actually shows that the weather will be stabilising itself as we go through next week. Perhaps not all that sunny and not all that warm, but at least those winds will die down. Thats it from me. Bye bye. Welcome to bbc news im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories a u turn from the bosses of american football admitting they were wrong to ban players from protesting against police brutality. We, the National Football league, admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier. And encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. The sick man of europe the official coronavirus death toll in britain passes 40,000. A surprise 2. 5 million jobs return to the us economy, and President Trump invokes George Floyds name to welcome the figures
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