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Give me a T! Give me an E!

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Give me a C! Give me an H!

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What have you got?

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Tech!

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Yes, teccy Technobabble.

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Coming up on today's show -

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Frankie discovers that a rainbow of colours can give you green fingers.

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This is incredible. I feel like I'm in a disco.

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And Sam has some apps that are, well, just for fun.

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It is not as easy as you think.

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But first, Paul's getting all chummy with games

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you can play with your mates.

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I've got the perfect mix of games

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to waste hours and hours in with your mates.

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First up is one of my tried and tested favourites.

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You can't go wrong with Gang Beasts.

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You're put in charge of one of four clay wrestlers and your mission is

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to shamble around the arena and try to throw your friends out of bounds.

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And a little tip for you - if you can time your hits with a jump,

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you can one-hit knockout your opponent,

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making it easy to pick them up and chuck them out.

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Next up is a proper classic, Star Wars Battlefront.

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This is a really solid Star Wars game where you can fight

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alongside your friends as either Storm Troopers or rebels.

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You can become a Jedi, drive a huge metal Walker,

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it doesn't get much more epic than that.

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-RADIO:

-Rebel Y-Wings are making their attack run.

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But a tip - don't worry too much about the Jedi invader pick-ups,

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they just make you an easy target.

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Instead, I suggest focusing on the vehicles.

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Minecraft - you don't have to whittle away at your own world,

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though, you can jump online and play with your pals

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on a whole number of multiplayer servers.

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And a quick tip - try to crouch when you can, it hides your name

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and helps you sneak around loads.

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Now, that's just some of my favourite games

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to play with your mates.

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It's a good mix that will have you playing together

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for hours and hours.

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Thank you, Paul. It's good to have friends.

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I've got loads, of course!

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We only need to open up my message app to see that

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and this week we are calling it Techno Notice.

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Is that a joke?

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OK, let's have it, Techno Notice.

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Vlogster, will food be grown differently in the future?

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Oh, tasty question!

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This is a job for someone who knows their spuds from their spinach,

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their beans from their greens.

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Let's hope Frankie's a quick learner.

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Frankie boy! You're looking very efficient. What're you up to?

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Oh, hey, Vlogster.

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I've just got some important documents I need to photocopy.

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As long as that's all you're making copies of.

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I don't want to see anything cheeky, thank you very much.

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Vlogster, I would never do that! Is there something you need me for?

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One of the Babblers would like to know how fruit and veg

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-might be grown in the future.

-Hah, well, you know me, Vlogster.

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Five a day all the way!

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I'm sending Frankie to Stockbridge Technology Centre,

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where researchers are leading the way in using tech to help horticulture.

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He's going to meet one of their specialist growers.

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Uh, Phil, this isn't quite what I had in mind.

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Don't worry, Frankie, you're in the right place.

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But Vlogster told me we were going somewhere where we can show

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how technology boosts the growth of fruit and veg,

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but this field is empty.

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We do grow stuff in this field, but it's winter, so it's too cold

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and there's not enough sunlight. That's where the tech comes in

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-and that's what we're going to show you now.

-Right, let's go.

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This is incredible. I feel like I'm in a disco.

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Phil, what do you actually do here?

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It's not a disco - what we have here is a multi-tiered LED-lit urban farm

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-for growing crops.

-Oh, amazing.

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-And don't you need sunshine to grow crops, though?

-No, we don't.

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We are using the LED lights and

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we are providing all the light they need for growth.

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So hang on, if you don't need sunshine, does that mean you can

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set these things up anywhere?

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It means you can grow plants in places that we can't

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traditionally do that, so underground or in the basement

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of the building, space that is essentially going to waste

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and now we can fill it with plants and grow really good quality crops

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and that means we can produce fresh food in the winter

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when a lot of food is imported in the UK.

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Can you tell me a bit more about the LEDs?

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Yeah, so these are fairly standard LEDs, but we have different

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colours and then we control how much of each colour we want.

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But they are very energy efficient and they are cool to touch.

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That means you can get the lights really close to the plants without

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damaging them and then you can fit as many shelves in as possible.

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What else can you change by altering the different lights?

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Well, we can change flowering, so we can tell a plant when to flower.

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We can change the flavour of something like basil.

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And hopefully we can change the health benefits of those plants,

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so changing things like vitamin C concentrations.

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And I understand this is actually one of the biggest research centres

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of its kind in the world.

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Yes, this is really cutting-edge stuff

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and we are very proud to have it here in Yorkshire.

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And it's amazing to be here, but I want to get my hands dirty,

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I want to get stuck in. Is there anything I can help you with?

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Yeah, we've got lots of dirty jobs to get you stuck in

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-and to see how we do things.

-Fantastic, let's do it.

-Brilliant.

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Right, Phil, what are we doing now?

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-So we're going to pot up these petunia plants.

-OK.

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So grab the pot, push up from underneath, grab the ball of soil.

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We're going to put them into a slightly bigger pot,

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so they've got more space to grow.

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So you've obviously got some amazing technology that you're using here.

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Is there anything else that you're working on?

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So elsewhere on site we have some satellite farming projects

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where we're using satellites to guide tractors around fields

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and feed the plants differently at different parts of the fields

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to maximise efficiency.

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And where do you think things are going to go in the future?

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Well, the sky is the limit.

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So we've got this technology here that we can grow without sunlight.

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And really this place is, you know...

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We've seen Mars now has water on, so potentially

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we could grow plants on Mars or anywhere in space, really.

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So who knows, in 20 years' time,

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-we could have something like this on Mars.

-Absolutely.

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I don't know about you, Vlogster,

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but I found that pretty ILLUMINATING.

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I do the gags, Francis!

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Now, forget growing crops on solid ground,

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the oceans are where it's at for future farming.

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What, you mean underwater food, like seaweed?

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No, we're talking lettuce, basil, strawberries and garlic.

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Italian scientists have been growing underwater

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in transparent biospheres.

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The constant warm temperature and high humidity mean that

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-sea greenhouses give perfect growing conditions.

-What next?

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Fancy some wasabi-flavoured chocolate mousse for pudding?

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-Not really.

-Me neither. But you could with this fancy fork.

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It releases aromas while you eat,

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combining the sense of taste and smell to create unique food pairings.

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The aromas include coffee, peanut and smoke.

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To be honest, all my cooking comes with a hint of burnt.

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Remind me never to come to yours for lunch.

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How about the world's first lab-grown meat restaurant?

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Researchers in the Netherlands think that in vitro meat,

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created using animal cells in a bioreactor, could be

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a sustainable food source in the future.

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To get people used to the idea,

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they've cooked up an online experience with a menu

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of unusual dishes and a restaurant of virtual tables.

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Vlogster, all this talk of food is making my stomach rumble.

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Fancy a take away?

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Here's Adam and he's talking short videos.

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Today I'm going to show you how to be funny and creative

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in a short video that's under a minute long.

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A simple gag can be easily done through a short video to make

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'people laugh, just as long as it's not too complicated.'

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-How are you doing?

-I'm just feeling a bit under the weather.

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Oh...

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To pull off a great video, you'll need some acting help.

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Grab a friend and assign them to a role.

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You can then develop your roles into different characters

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that relate to the gag that you're filming.

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Let's hit the road.

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To make your short video, you will need a camera and a prop.

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A camera or a phone to film and a prop as part of the gag.

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What, Dad?!

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That's the last straw.

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I need it for my drink!

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Now it's time to film.

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First film a person saying their lines,

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then film your other actor reacting to the phrase well performing it.

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-Great.

-Just one more question. How are you with computers?

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-Yeah, I think it's a piece of cake.

-Great. Oh!

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Why... You're fired.

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When you've finished filming your skit, it's time to edit it together.

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First connect your camera or phone to the computer,

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then move your footage into your editing programme.

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Now we're going to use the trimming tool to get rid of any sections

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of the video we don't want.

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Once you've done that to all of your footage

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and you've cut them together, you are done.

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-Come on, spill the beans.

-OK!

-Oh!

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So there you have it, you've made a short video

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to make your friends laugh... hopefully.

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Cheers, Adam, lad!

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Oh, that's another message. Shall we Techno Notice?

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I don't mean "take no notice", I mean Techno Notice!

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Oh, open the app.

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Will we ever live with dinosaurs?

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Oh, that's a ROAR-some question, Star!

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Right, let's find out if the most fearsome creatures on Earth

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could make like Take That and be...

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SINGS: ..back for good.

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By studying loads of fossils, scientists have discovered

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that birds are direct descendents of flesh-eating flying dinosaurs.

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And it doesn't stop with our feathered friends.

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Tortoises, Komodo dragons and alligators are all ancient animals.

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The Carnufex carolinensis, a crocodile-like creature,

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walked on two legs, had huge jaws and grew three meters tall.

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That was 230 million years ago.

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But don't be disappointed just yet, Jurassic fans.

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DNA is in every single cell in your body

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and it carries all the information needed to make you or a dinosaur,

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from the colour of your eyes to your favourite flavour of crisps.

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One problem - DNA doesn't survive more than a few million years

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and dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.

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But researchers in America have found blood-like cells in even older

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fossilized bones and claws and these cells can give hints to the

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building blocks of dino skin, so there's still hope for dinosaur DNA.

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American palaeontologists - that's dino experts - also think that

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one day we could have pet dinosaurs.

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Because birds are related to flying dinosaurs, scientists reckon we can

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turn off the newer genes that make them birds, like beaks and feathers,

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and switch on older genes, like teeth and scales, to create dinosaurs.

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This bonkers biology is called transgenics.

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Using transgenics, scientists have already taken the genes

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from jellyfish and used them to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits.

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This could mean a lot for the world of medicine, but for dino fans,

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forging a friendly flying pterodactyl might take a while yet.

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Talking of transgenics,

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what do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur?

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Jurassic pork!

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I'm wasted on the show.

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What we need now is some fun, some funny fun. Sam, entertain me!

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Hello there and welcome.

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Today I'm going to be talking to you a little bit about my favourite apps

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that I like to play when I'm bored, when I'm waiting for a bus,

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what I'm waiting for my pasta,

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when I'm waiting...for my sofa?

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Basically these are just apps I like to play when I'm bored.

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First of all, we're going to start with The Impossible Quiz.

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I used to play this game so much when I was younger

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and when I realised there was an app for it, I was straight on it.

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It's a quiz, but it's impossible...

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nearly.

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OK, yes! Click. Answer.

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Yeah, oh, I am literally the best at this game.

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We now come on to Oldify, but not actually old,

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you just take a picture of yourself,

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your dog, your mum, your nan, your cat and it will make them look old.

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And last but by no means least, we come on to The Impossible Flappy.

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Your job for this app is to tap the screen with the little bird

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to guide him through an obstacle course and make sure

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he doesn't hit the edges. And just trust me here,

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it's not as easy as you think. Really.

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I can't really give you that many tips for this app, but all you've

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got to do is keep trying and trying and trying, because, you know...

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as long as you try your hardest,

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then you won't be beaten by the app and just...

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Why can't I do this app?

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Tiptop tips there, thanks, Sam. And I've got a tip for you, too.

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Don't download apps without permission.

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It's not big and it's not clever and the chances are you'll be grounded...

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forever!

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Right, just time for another visit to the Babblebuster!

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The Babblebuster, Babble-Babblebuster.

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Whoo, yeah, that's definitely going to catch on.

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So, today's letter is C.

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C is for cookies, but not the sweet, chocolate chip biscuits

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that you like to munch on.

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A cookie is a tiny file that stores information about you.

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When you visit a website, it sends a small file, a cookie,

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to your computer and that gets stored on the hard drive.

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The cookie has your details, login name, password,

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basket contents, that are recognised and used again by the web page

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the next time that you go to it, meaning that you don't need

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to re-enter the info, making life much more simple, a bit like me.

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OK, that's it, I'll see you soon. Ta-ra!

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Next time on Technobabble, we spend the day with Kim to find out

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-what life is like as a professional gamer.

-You ready?

-I'm ready! Yeah!

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And Marcus discovers that the future of music is right at his fingertips.

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