Now on bbc news, click talks exclusively with legendary uk rapper stormzy about his appearance in the upcoming watch dogs legion videogame. This week Fact Checking the president ial contenders. Stormzy taking us through a ride on his home town. And chris takes us through a ride through his kitchen. Welcome to click. I hope youre well. As we head into autumn, the world has some pretty big milestones ahead of us. In the short term, the us election. The election of the moment always feels like the biggest yet. But this comes at the time when trust in politics and politicians is at a real low. The final president ial debate has now taken place and the idea is that these debates should tell voters about the candidatesh policies, and help them to make an informed decision at the ballot box. But as well as becoming big, mudslinging, shouty arguments, the rallies and debates have also been riddled with untruths. We live in a time when disinformation is dividing and entrenching us, to the point where it is threatening democracies around the world. If you cannot believe what you see, read and hear, including what comes out of politicians mouths, how can you make the right decision . It has become such a widespread issue that some organisations now have dedicated fact hecking services and there are companies around the world whose sole job is to spot the lies. But keeping up with the volume of misinformation out there is a hard task. Meet a member of a team of Fact Checkers were recently tasked with monitoring the debate live. But not all of her team members were human. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly. Sorting truths from half truth to complete fabrication is very time consuming, so she had help from an ai algorithm. If i were to manually fact check a claim, it would take me on average two to three hours. Which is minimal, because we have to manually check all of the sources, make sure our sources are reliable. But when the ai steps in, our time is reduced by almost 70 to 80 . So, we can turn a claim around and about 15 to 20 minutes, and so that reliable information is spreading as soon as possible. The first president ial debate was the teams first chance to work with a live video feed using the software. Over the last four years, you have promised to repeal and replace obamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan. The human and ai combination were able to fact check 27 claims made by candidates. The software performed two tasks. First, it turned what was said into text. That is simply not true. Which was no easy feat, so it did get a few things wrong. But for those it did manage to capture, it would then consult its huge database of pre established facts that it had pulled out of thousands of articles from trusted sources. 0k. The forest fires in the west are raging now, they have burned millions of acres. Over all, a third of claims were checked and verified by a machine alone. 0ur confidence score is 0. 9. This means that the ai has also put in a link against which the extracted claim matches perfectly. Even when the ai is fairly confident of its findings, they check the results before they are published. For half of the remaining claims, the ai still returns results with less certainty, and so they had to pass their expert eyes over the source material first. The ai really struggled with eight out of the 27 claims, which had to be fact checked completely by hand. Now, this process still takes a little while, anything from two minutes up to more than 90 minutes for claims that have never been made before. So, i asked the man behind logically whether a late breaking truth would allow the lie to have its impact. When you are putting your whole weight behind a big claim and saying that this is true or false or based on presently available information, unverifiable, some things you gain with latency, but they are not worth losing by getting things wrong every now and then. A recent Cambridge University graduate and he knows first hand how misinformation can risk lives. My grandmother passing away prematurely. She read somewhere that if she gave up her meds that were prescribed to her from a proper doctor and started drinking this specialjuice of some kind, that she would live longer and she would have a pain free death, et cetera. And obviously that was all false. But beyond the very real health risks misinformation pose, the stories are a big political events in the past few years convinced him something had to be done. Regardless of the outcome above those specific democratic events. It felt process wise, something was broken with how we as individuals interacted with information online, and how we were all being shoved into various filter bubbles and echo chambers digitally, and these certainly were impacting the decisions that we were making in our personal lives, but also important decisions that were making a society. For now, Fact Checking services have become essential in this fight. But the defining change will ultimately come when the social networks are more able to stop this stuff from going viral in the first place. I think it is time for a bit of star power. What do you reckon, lara . Are you up for a bit of star dust . 0h, definitely. Now, many a rock star and musician has swapped the mic for a go at being a movie star. Madonna has done it, mick jagger has done it, beyonce too. But these days, videogames are bigger than music and film combined. So no surprise one of the most famous names have appeared in games. Stormzy is one of the most successful names in the Music Industry right now. But he is going to be swapping his next gig from the stage at glastonbury, to the virtual streets of london in a video game. Marc cieslak met stormzy to chat about a game set in his home town, and how the art form has grown up and is now tackling material that talks to the troubled times that we live in. Multi Award Winning rapper stormzys new single rainfall has a video with a bit of a difference. music it features the croydon born musician as a video Game Character performing inside an actual game. The soon to be realsed watch dogs leigon. Im about to meet stormzy in the flesh. The game he is appearing in is set in the near future london, and has themes of protest and resistance. I am keen to find out if he thinks this video game has any parallels with things that are going on in 2020. One of the games main themes is about ordinary people banding together to resist and to fight back against an oppressive regime. Do you think that is saying anything about the world that we live in right now . It is very reflective of the times in the sense of, yeah, we, as people, need to be coming together. Do you know what i mean . That captures that perfectly in the sense of like, your everyday person being more important than they realise, you know. So, yeah, definitely. A third person action title, watchdogs legion takes place in a dystopian version of a near future london, a state controlled by corrupt corporate interests. The player can recruit and control any of the thousands of characters they encounter on londons streets. Performing missions that will ultimately bring down the authoritarian regime. All right, everyone stormzy plays a version of himself and in this fictional world, he is a rapper whose message of resistance is transmitted via a pirated video signal. He spent three days being performance captured at the ubisoft toronto studios. So, follow the gps, that should take you there. Whoa, whoa. Stormz, what are you doing . Riding recklessly. Absolutely. On the back of there. It is so london. Is it special being in the game thats set in london . Its the most. Ifeel like i am london. London is me. Like, i am a proper london boy, like, through and through. And so, like, its my city and i love it dearly. Its a big part of me as a man and an artist and my character. This is mad. My banks up there, like, literally. If i turn. For people that dont know london, thats coutts and co. Laughter the same bank as her majesty the queen bro, that is me thats more me than a flipping picture. This is mental stormzy isnt the only musician in a video game, he joins a long list of other artists that include the likes of 50 cent. And who could forget david bowie . Youre not the first video game player to get your soul trapped. Some efforts could be put down to cashing in on star power to shift games. But sometimes as about an artist experimenting with the new medium. And there are some points of convergence between the two art forms. Theres a long history of music being used for protest and to provoke thought about things that are going on in the world today. Do you think that video games have the power to do that as well . 100 million per cent. I feel that any platform, whatever way, shape or form, or whatever mediums we use as creatives and artists, is its a platform for, yeah, to speak out against injustice, for it to be like pillars of truth or whatnot. Especially with video games. Like, even down to the reach of video games is astronomical. Yeah, 100 . I think, especially with the times we are in, anything can be a platform to speak out. Away from games and your music career, your bursaries to universities, to cambridge is up and running. How important is your position to do the things that youre doing . I feel so blessed. I have so many platforms and so much reach, and i feel that it is my duty and responsibility to share what i have. Do you think that means there is something wrong, that there is something that we need to think about things a little bit differently . These things are set up to address the uneven and injustices in a lot of these areas of society. So, yeah, theres so many other people of influence or artists or public figures doing these things to try to just, to uplift those who need it a bit. From best selling grime artist to glastonbury headliner, and now taking on the world of games. The south london star continues to shine. Hello, and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that the Us Government filed a lawsuit against google, accusing the company of violating competition law over internet searches and the online advertising. Two million ads pricking political campaigning rules attaching false information warnings to a further 150 million posts. And afterjust six months, Video Streaming Service quibi is shutting down. The start up raised almost 2 billion for its launch, but suffered disappointing download and viewership numbers. It was also the week that nasa selected nokia to build a wireless 4g network on the moon. The proposed Cellular Network is part of a plan to establish a long term human presence on the moon by 2030. Developers of the covid i9 Contract Tracing app for england and wales reassured users that none of their data will be shared with the police. This followed news that Contact Details of people told to self isolate by the nhs test and trace scheme in england are shared with the police on a case by case basis. Developers say that the app operates independently of this system. And finally, with would you fancy a new dress that changes with the seasons . Researchers at yale have developed the fabric with sensors and variable stiffness fibres that show the fabric responding to changes in temperature. When the fabric is cool, the particles stiffen, and in warm weather, they become almost liquid and soften the fabric. While microsoft and sony are racing to be crowned champion in the next generation console wars, nintendo has done something very nintendo and said, never mind that ultra High Definition gaming, how about some augmented reality racing cars . This is mario kart live home circuit, which takes the best selling Nintendo Game and turns your house into the race track. And the way this works pretty clever. It contains a camera that streams live footage of your living room to the Nintendo Switch console which you use as the remote control. You can set them up around your home and whatever configuration space will allow you to form your racetrack. The software can recognise the gates as you drive through them, creating the course as you go. You also give his cardboard barriers with arrows that will augmented with animations. Once you are set up, and its like a regular game of mario kart. There are other characters to race against and power up. But its all taking place of your own living room. You can also race up to four of these karts together to play multiplayer in your living room if you got the space, but you will need a Nintendo Switch console for each one. It goes without saying that you need a fair bit of space to set this up. But you can arrange it in a modest sized living room and that is because even though on screen it looks like the karts are zooming around the racetrack, in the real world, the kart is just trundling around the living room fairly slowly. It can also make some pretty sharp turns, so you can set it up in a smaller room. Although i think you get more out of this with more space. There are some limitations to the software. Not all the power ups work in the way you expect them to in a regular mario kart game. You cannot hold a banana behind your kart to protect yourself from shells. Even though bullet bill does steer you around the track automatically, which i think is quite impressive, it cannot detect obstacles, and you end up crashing quite a lot. So, the augmented reality layer doesnt handle occlusions. So it is always overlaid on top of the camera feed. So, here the track should disappear behind the table leg, it doesnt, and that means you tend to crash more than you would expect, although that is a part of the madness and we do crash, your character reacts on screen. The big question for all augmented reality applications is how much do you actually get out of this once you are over that initial moment of this is cool . Most of the players i know are still playing pokemon go and have turned off the camera effects because, even though they look cool, they ultimately add very little to the gameplay. And i think that may also be the issue here. But, with all augmented reality games, how is is this better than playing the console game . Ultimately i think it is not. Its just different. It is a different take on mario kart and i think thats fine. Hard to say whether this will have the same enduring appeal as the traditional console game, but mario kart is the best selling game of the Nintendo Switch, and if any franchise can take on a mainstream, it is probably mario kart. Turning his floor into a race track. How cool was that . Brilliant. And because we cannot all go out as much as we would like to, our homes have had to become our cinemas, our workspaces and our playgrounds. That is what lara has been looking at this week. All you need is a projector. There also some quirkier options as well as some that will provide cinema on go. It wasnt long ago that the idea of a turning any surface into a touch screen basically like a tablet would have seen the stuff of science fiction. But that is what this does. Take a look at this. This hachi infinite mi projector. It uses deep learning, gesture controls, object recognition, and what it calls skeleton recognition, to be able to identify and focus on its surface as well as respond to a humans touch. I was not holding out high hopes for the accuracy, especially when it came to typing on a keyboard like this. But actually, i found it was pretty good. The system runs on android and can be paired with an android or ios device. As well as being able to search the web and use built in apps, there is an ai powered education feature to with letters a nd blocks that he can recognise. A kitchen function is coming soon too, as well as a fitness feature that is being claimed to track your moves, letting you know whether they are right or not. You can also use it to project on a wall. But when you do that, you no longer have the Touch Control available. It also needs to be very close to a wall because if you do too far away, you accidentally shine it on the ceiling, and wonder what is going on. That is just wrong. Though it is quite cool. Imagine turning up at your friends house with this. No, it is not a drinks cooler. It is a 4k projector, and pretty much everything you need should be built into the box. It streams the content and has high quality speakers. You can even operate it through alexa or google home using your voice. This vibrantly projects a million pixels. Ona on a picture of two 120 inches in size. Up to 120 inches. The speakers provide clear, crisp sound, but maybe not up to the volume that the picture might beckon. In a device that is trying to do so much, setting it up to achieve full functionality did feel overcomplicated though. And clearly, the standout feature here is that it is a portable 4k projector. At the lower end of the scale is this pocket projector which can connect directly to wi fi or your phone, maybe you want to do a slide show or it can double up as a speaker. Ata at a fraction of the price of most other projectors of course your expectations need to be managed. Getting set up a simple, with a dial to focus and the ability to deal with a range of file types. Idid start to have a few issues. Some glitches with the app. But the sound quality is different and it is a versatile device and at this point, it is ok. And heres one for the kids. It comes with a parent portal so the parents can keep an eye on what children are watching. And seeing anything that they should. And if a child comes than 60 cm of the light here, it automatically turns to protect their little eyes. It also has all of the streaming services built in. As well as the ability to connect via hdmi, usbc, or bluetooth, providing a screen of up to 100 inches. It is a small but solid device. The set up and use of streaming apps is really slick. The picture quality is sharp and the sound was pretty decent for the speakers. But, the price is high, and for a device aimed at kids, it is may be too high. There you have it. If you are the latest ways of bringing entertainment home. Unless, youd rather entertain yourself to spend than spend your hard earned cash on a virtual screen. That projected touchscreen was amazing. Yes, it got far more attention in my house the most of the gadgets i am testing. My husband was fascinated. My daughter played noughts and crosses. Im sorry you havent had a chance to play. One day. Lets go from projecting things onto a surface to project in things into the sky with lasers. Back injune, we told you that this laser maestro had been showing his appreciation to carers and nhs staff by projecting love and thanks across his home city of brighton. After a trial earlier this month, laser light city is happening this weekend in leeds. But cities under lockdown and local autumn light shows unable to happen, the idea here is that 25 lasers mounted on buildings around the city will put on a show that residents can see regardless of restrictions on social gatherings. Seb created all the control software himself. But this is an interactive show, meaning thousands of people were able to log on to a special website and take control of the lasers. Changing the colour, shapes and direction of the beams which can be seen up to ten miles away. As the dark nights draw in, seb is hoping he can light up more cities, and bring a little laser sparkle to these unusual autumn evenings. Anyway, that is it for this week. You can find the team online throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter bbcclick. Thank you for watching, and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Hello. Saturday brought some extremely wet and rather blustery weather for many parts of the uk. It was a particularly soggy end to the day in eastern and south eastern parts of england. Not quite as wet for most of us on sunday. Still some heavy showers around, some blustery winds, but some sunny spells in between. You can see the speckled shower clouds here pushing in on our earlier satellite image. And its this stripe of cloud here that brought the heavy and persistent rain for many during the first half of the weekend. That is now clearing away. Low pressure still very much driving the weather, so it is going to be another windy day and that wind coming in from the west will drive a fair few showers across parts of northern ireland, western scotland, the western side of england and wales, and quite a few i think blowing in across southern counties of england as well. Not as many showers across the north east of england or eastern scotland. And we will see some spells of sunshine. But its going to be windy for all of us. These are the average wind speeds. The gusts will be higher than that. We could see gusts of 50 mph or more in the most exposed places in western scotland, where the showers could well turn into a spell of more persistent rain through the afternoon. Temperatures 11 14 degrees, a fairly cool feel. And it stays rather cool and blustery as we head through sunday night and into the early hours of monday. As you can see, therell be further showers moving in from the west. Some clear gaps in between those downpours, and temperatures generally in a range between 5 8 degrees. Now, monday is another sunshine and showers day, but a bit of a shift in the focus of those showers. They will increasingly become focused across northern ireland, england and wales, whereas for scotland, i think things should start to turn a little bit drier and we will see some spells of sunshine. Not as windy by this stage, but temperatures still struggling a little bit between 11 14 degrees. It does stay unsettled, though, through the coming week. Low pressure taking up residence to the north west, a deep low out in the atlantic, so thatll drive strong winds and showers across the uk, some longer spells of rain at times. And it may well be that for the end of the week, this weather system brings some more persistent wet weather, so the outlook looks like this. There will be some heavy rain at times and some brisk winds, a very unsettled autumnal week on the way. 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