This week tiktoks troubled, wechats winning, and can robots high five . High five no, maybe not. Theme music. Silicon valley the home of google, facebook, twitter and all those other big social Media Companies that dominate our lives. World changing in their day, but more recently its all getting a bit samey, dont you think . Some say social media Silicon Valley style has stopped innovating. But new rival companies are emerging that are starting to shake things up, and theyre coming from china. Tiktok is the 15 second looping video app thats captured the hearts of teenagers across the world. And with 1 billion users, its firmly on the radar of big tech. And while Silicon Valley may be worried about its huge number of users, it also argues that the companys home country should also give the west cause for concern. In china, things are happening and happening fast. Innovation is rife and Silicon Valley is starting to look over its shoulder. As part of the bbc rivals season, were taking a
Around the coast. Inland, 30 a0 mph. Drier weatherfor a time around the coast. Inland, 30 a0 mph. Drier weather for a time across england and wales but more showers moving in from the west tonight. A risk of icy stretches and hill snow across parts of scotland, particularly the southern happens, Northern Ireland, the pennines, parts of the mountains of wales seeing snow through tonight. A chance of icy stretches tomorrow, especially across the northern parts of the uk. Milder in the south with enough breeze to keep things frost free. Tomorrow, sunshine and showers make again, quite a lot of dry weather but more showers moving in through the day. Wendy, 50 mph gusts in the most exposed areas but not quite as windy as today. Windy. Hello. This is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines the Prime Minister tells supporters in tony blairs old constituency of sedgefield that they have changed the Political Landscape and the country. Our country has now embarked on a wonderful adventure, and w
In scotland, despite a massive surge in support will be cold enough at times to see for the snp in the general election. Some of the show as fall as snow, journey times are being cut, more services and new routes added particularly in the northern heals. As part of major timetable changes more on that coming later in the on britains railways. Programme. And in sport, and christmas comes its saturday, 1ath december. Early for liverpool fans as managerjurgen klopp signs a contract extension, our top story keeping him at the club until 202a. Boris johnson will visit the north of england today after his party won a number of traditional labour heartland seats to secure a majority in parliament. Some areas voted conservative for the first time in thursdays election, helping to achieve and ahead of tonights strictly the largest conservative victory final well ask for more than 30 years. Our very own magic mike bushell there are flashing images in this which couple he thinks will waltz report
Pressure to the north of us. The rain bearing weather fronts cleared away but another one is set to push into the south west later which will strengthen the winds. In between those two, only a few showers dotted around in the morning. Then a bit of an icy start for some. Some sleet and snow showers still over parts in scotland in particular. A lot of dry and sunny weather through sunday. But as we go into the afternoon, southern and western areas, in particular, the showers are going to start to get going again. The winds not quite as strong as today. Coming in from a mainly south westerly direction. But they will reach gale force across the south west later on and we may see severe gales around the hebrides and the north west highlands. Temperatures, after a chilly, frosty start, its going to be a rather cool day, 4 8 degrees. Another chilly and icy night. Some showers around. Some hill snow. Monday, the main chance of hill snow will be over central and northern parts of scotland. Out
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