Its time to click. 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. Lara is. Errm, yeah, lara looks absolutely fine, lara, you have taken to wearing shades indoors. Should i be worried . Dont worry, there is a good reason for this, which i will explain in a moment. Ive been on a mission to find the best wireless sound, so i started off with some True Wireless earbuds. First up, these from jabra, which are meant to be great for active use. But i found as soon as i started running, theyjust fall out of my ears. Great sound, but not so much use when its on the floor. Then i tried these by edifier, a third of the price, and they are lighter, so they fall out a little bit less, but the battery life was so fantastic that i was almost forgiving of that as long as they didnt fall down a drain, because would obviously be a problem. But with all of them falling out of my ears, maybe i actually have something strange going on with my ears. Do you think funny ears is a thing . It is a thing, i have been told i have tiny ear canals so i have a real problem with in ear headphones. Whenever i wear them, they keep self ejecting, so it is a thing trust me. Ok, so thats 100 of us with the problem, so i think these are the solution. The bose frames play sound out of small speakers and theyve got a microphone in them, so youre all sorted. The only thing is theyre not the most flattering sunglasses, but they are pretty good 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. One sport that is still officially off at the moment is motor racing, although they have found a really interesting way to kind of keep going. Now, omar mehtab has been for a drive, but he has also discovered that with new tech 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. Butjust 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 hit. But while the season was postponed, drivers were still raring 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 rfactor 2. But this setup take things further than using a normal gaming controller. Oliver rowland is a formula e driver for nissan and has installed this huge rig in his home. It includes a professional steering wheel, pedals and a seat that reacts to the stimulation. But could this ever match up to the feeling of a real race car . Ive 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 days. I think the general feeling is the graphics, the tracks, everythings actually very close. Of course you dont get the cues or the feeling of the car, so you rely more on visual things, which takes you a bit more getting used to, but i think i am actually extremely impressed with what weve been sent. Its notjust the professional races who get to take part. On 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 gen2 car. Now, if you want to take part in the race on the weekend, you first have to set a really, 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 it in its very easy to lose control or even have the wheel whack on your knuckles if you lose your grip. Oww its not moving properly. I broke. How did i break a fake car . But after several tries, i set a pretty decent time, or so i thought i came dead last which isnt surprising as these gamers are the real deal. They spend hour after hour training and intensely studying the mechanics, not only of the car, but the game itself too. But the race at home challenge didnt generate the positive feeling formula e and its sponsors would have hoped for. And it may be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Recently, audi sports real life formula e driver daniel abt was found to have cheated during a race. In fact, he didnt race at all. Managing to obscure his face on the video feed, it was actually pro gamer Lorenz Hoerzing who was behind the wheel. Other drivers immediately voiced their suspicions after abt, not true to form, had done well. To be honest, im questioning if it was really daniel in the car. Formula e launched an investigation, and by cross referencing ip address, 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, hoerzing, banned from ever entering a formula e event again. But why did they do it . So from this, it is clear that abt didnt take the esports race as seriously as a real life one. Now, we reached out to formula e who declined to make a statement on abts cheating or how they will address the strategy to preventing it again in future. But just think about this for a second cheating or not, a gamerjust came third in a race with highly trained professional drivers. People are kind of starting to understand that theres a big difference between a casual gamer and a professional racer. The speed that these guys managed to extract from the cars over a lap just shows how dedicated they are to the sport. Thats bound to have some kind of transferable skill set in the real world. So could this be a new way of identifying talent . I guess a typical motorsport person might say, well, you know, can they do it if you put them in a car . Thats what were going to put to test with 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 its all about the socks. We know how big the videogames industry is these days, its bigger than hollywood. And in fact, june is usually the time of the annual videogames extravaganza e3 in la. Microsoft and sony had big plans for 2020 they were going to launch the xbox series x and the playstation 5 respectively. 2020, of course, had other plans. Yes, e3 has been cancelled because of the pandemic, and, of course, there have been protests across america following the death of george floyd in police custody. There was supposed to be a ps5 launch event this week, but sony has decided to postpone it, saying now is not a time for celebration. We think the consoles will still launch this year and microsoft has already revealed quite a bit about its xbox series x. So marc cieslak 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. A chat with friends and family or plain old pass the time. These are all things that xbox head honcho phil spencer has been closely monitoring, especially during lockdown. I know not everybody plays games, over half the connected world does play video games, nearly 2. 6 billion people, and the fact that people can use games as a way to continue to stimulate, continue to find new stories, new creators and new friends and people to go play with i think is just 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 and security of our team, but when i look at the hardware production now, i feel really good. We have test kits at home, were 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 builds look like those things will be uninterrupted. So we probably had a couple of weeks missed in our testing cyclejust as we got up to speed with things, but i feel like well be able to 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 im probably focused on the most is just the macroeconomic environment. We see that the impact right now of people getting furloughed, layoffs, itsjust, its tough, and knowing that, in the case of gaming, we are a leisure activity, we are not a requirement, were not food, were not shelter. If this is not the year where a family wants to make a decision to buy a near xbox, thats ok. Our strategy does not revolve around how many xboxs i sell this year. It isnt just hardware that is being developed by teams working from home, people creating games are working in this way too. Microsoft owned studio mojang, the Developers Behind the hugely successful minecraft, were putting the finishing touches to their new game, minecraft dungeons, when lockdown restrictions due to the pandemic hit. Thankfully, we as a team, we are semi used to working remotely. We sit 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 have a lot of the infrastructure set up to be able to work remotely. So, games are still being developed and the plan is still for next generation consoles to arrive at the end of this year. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week staff at facebook staged a virtual walkout of a video meeting with boss Mark Zuckerberg after civil rights leaders said he was setting a dangerous precedent by allowing a post by donald trump to remain on the platform. Teleconference app zoom saw huge profits between february and april of this year, more than double that for the same period last year, due to uptake following the coronavirus pandemic. And even journalists arent safe from the machine takeover. Microsoft have planned to replace their msn news Curation Team with al from july. Now, we all like a scenic phone wallpaper, but some Android Phone users found theirs a little too dramatic. This colourful lake view has been causing some samsung and google pixel phones to crash when set as the wallpaper. Its not sure why just yet, but we dont recommend trying one at home. Whats better or cuter than one retro games console . How about four . Sega has unveiled four micro consoles, each colour with a different set of four retro games. The tiny 1. 15 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 being strong and soft . Mits csail team has the answer. Theyve developed a venus flytrap like origami robot hand that can pick up items 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 always flow freely. So, here are my top picks for creativity boosters. The Glucksman Museum for Creative Learning is hosting a series of free creative and home projects. Short challenges like splash and doodle that come with a supportive worksheet and aim to 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, sketchbook is a free and user friendly drawing and painting app available for any device. There are 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 host a club night for your friends on plug. Dj. Its free to join, create an avatar and make a playlist from the tunes available on youtube or soundcloud. Then invite friends to join and you can hang out together, chatting and taking turns to control the music. Or you can 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. One, 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. Say a little prayer for you. But if you just dont have the Emotional Energy for creativity right now dont worry, ive got you covered. Take a stroll through the Upworthy 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 glaiel and the lights respond to the sound of your voice. After tyler posted the code on twitter, i thought id have a go at making this myself, just as a novelty to wear on video calls, and i thought it would be an easy project. How wrong i was the components for Something Like this came to about £40, most of which went on this flexible led matrix. I also needed a tiny microphone to pick up my voice a microprocessor to run the code. Tylers setup used an arduino nano. But 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 everyone else on twitter who answered my questions to get this to work. Hello once i had my mask working, i hopped on a video call with tyler to talk about the project. So, tyler, first of all, tell me why did you want to create this . Errm, because its cool i had a random idea for it, i wondered if it existed, to have a facemask that would light up mouth shapes. I looked around online to if there was anything i could feasibly just buy that would do this, and there really wasnt anything there. And in terms of practicality, is this something youre actually going to wear out and about . Im probably planning on wearing it out to the store once. Like, ive worn it outside once already, but its very impractical compared to, like, a normal surgical mask. A lot of people have shared pictures of them in their mask, are you surprised that its gone viral . Its cool seeing people make their versions of it. Some people independently made one of these similar to it before i posted mine that went viral. Is this the finished product for you . Are you thinking about adding anything else to the mask . I think its done at this point. This has already taken me, like, a month of playing around with it to get it to this point. I was trying to make it so it could have, like, a different mouth for like an e, which is a higher pitched, oran o, which is, like, a lower pitched sound just to, like, sell the effect a bit more. I sort of got it working but it didnt look good. Ijust 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 has shared his code and a how to guide on twitter, although a few words of caution from me i wouldnt say this is a beginner project, because if you dont have the exact same components as tyler, his code wont work for you, and his components do run quite hot, so i cant recommend you strap Something Like this to yourface, and definitely not for children. Theres other designs out there, so worth digging around for inspiration. One simple idea is having a clear plastic window in the mask so that people who lipread can still see your mouth. If you decide to customise your mask, just make sure you sterilise it. The fabric on this one is machine washable, and the electronics i can slip out and sterilise with ultraviolet uvc. But, to be honest, i think ill probablyjust keep this one as a novelty. That was so cool, was it us . That was 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 i thought, wouldnt it be fun to actually set up some of my lasers on the roof terrace and see what i could hit with my lasers. And thats how megalomania starts Seb Lee Delisle is a professional laserist, and just to say before he showed his love for the nhs in this way, he did get permission from police and aviation authorities. And if he looks familiar, well, you might have seen him wowing us at click live 2018. Hes also 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 light festivals into doubt, and that gave seb his next crazy idea. And so i thought, can i make a lights show that would be fine whatever level of restrictions . So i put together this idea called laser light city i have to stop thinking of summer night city although i think ive got my theme tune written already. So its called laser light city, and the idea is i get the biggest lasers i can get hold of, probably at least 30 watts, and install them on iconic landmarks around the city, pointing up into 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 finger, 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 fact, seb hopes that these kind of light shows will one day replace a form of entertainment that he thinks has had its day. Fireworks are sparkly and bright and beautiful, but theyre hundreds of years Old Technology now. Theyre problematic these days for so many reasons. And 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 not guaranteed. Thunder crashes 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 cup of 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. Hello there. It has been unusually windy the past couple of days. And we will still have a keen north wind with us during the day ahead, making it feel quite chilly near the north sea coast, around this area of low pressure, but gradually High Pressure is building in for the next couple of days. So that will start to dampen the winds down in southern and Western Areas and the showers. But, as you can see, there are still further outbreaks of rain or showery rain to come, making its way southwards across england and wales. It does allow drier and brighter weather for much of scotland and northern ireland. Just a few showers around, some sunshine in sheltered spots but some showers, as they sink southwards, across england and wales, could turn heavy and thundering. And although the winds are easing in southern and Western Areas, still quite keen in the north, but particularly as well near the north sea coast, just taking the edge off those temperature again 12 or 13. But in southern areas, it might be just a little warmer on saturday, with slightly less wind and a little bit more dry and bright weather. And then through the evening and overnight, any of those showers will ease away and, in fact, we start to see some starry skies coming through. So quite a chilly start to monday morning. There could be some grass frost in the glens of scotland. And that is all due to that area of High Pressure, that ridge of High Pressure from the azores, starting to build in, for monday and for many, we think, on tuesday as well. However, thereafter theres some more much needed rain, we think, on the cards, as this area of low pressure starts to take shape but, as i say, from monday, it is looking like a drier day. Still quite a bit of cloud mulling around but some sunshine, some strong sunshine for this time of year. Slightly less windy so it will start to feel warmer. There could just be a few sharp downpours developing into the afternoon. Into tuesday, another coolish start but we are, at long last, losing that northerly wind that weve had. We pick up a south westerly winds instead, and eventually that will bring some rain, we think, into the north and west but for many feeling warmer because well have a bit more sunshine, and weve lost that northerly breeze. Then, as we get towards mid week, some uncertainty still but it is looking now as if low pressure will start to develop to bring all of us some rainfall, and that could well hang around for much of the week, and can sink into southern areas and that will give some appreciable rainfall. So certainly one to keep our eye on. It is looking, as you can see, as if southern areas might get some significant rain as we head towards the middle part of the week. As ever, we will keep you updated. Bye bye. This is bbc news. Im Lewis Vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Huge protests against the death of george floyd have been taking place in cities across the us all of them peaceful. In washington, thousands gathered around the white house in the biggest demonstrations in the capital over the past 12 days. While the us protests were peaceful, in london, there were some clashes with Police Outside downing street with mounted officers driving back protestors. Thousands of mourners honour george floyd at a second memorial service, this one in his birthplace of north carolina. Police investigating a suspect in the case of the missing british girl Madeleine Mccann are also looking into the disappearance of two other children. 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