S27E131: Milky Way’s Gamma Ray Mystery, Triple Black Hole Discovery, and NASA’s Solar Array Setback
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S27E131: Milky Way’s Gamma Ray Mystery, Triple Black Hole Discovery, and NASA’s Solar Array Setback

SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 131

* Ultra High Energy Gamma Rays Detected in the Milky Way's Core

Scientists have detected ultra high energy gamma rays emanating from the centre of the Milky Way. This discovery, reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, offers a new perspective on the violent phenomena occurring in the galactic core. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory in Mexico, researchers measured these gamma rays at over 100 tera electron volts, providing insights into the cosmic processes involving Sagittarius A, the galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

* Discovery of a Potential Triple Black Hole System

Astronomers have identified what may be the first triple black hole system, located 8,000 light years away. This discovery could be the first direct evidence of gentle black hole formation, challenging the typical violent supernova origin theory. The system includes a central black hole, a closely orbiting star, and a far-off companion star, suggesting a more subtle formation process known as direct collapse.

* NASA's New Deployable Solar Array System Faces Challenges

NASA has encountered issues with its new deployable solar array and antenna system on the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 4 spacecraft. The lightweight integrated solar array and antenna system, designed to enhance power and communication capabilities, is not deploying correctly due to a bent boom. This technology aims to support future deep Space missions with improved efficiency.

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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 this is spacetime series 27 episode 131

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00:00:06 --> 00:00:09 2024 coming up on space time record

00:00:09 --> 00:00:11 energy gamma rays detected in the Milky

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00:00:14 --> 00:00:17 first triple black hole system and

00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 problems for NASA as they try to test a

00:00:19 --> 00:00:22 new Deployable solar array system all

00:00:22 --> 00:00:25 that and more coming up on

00:00:25 --> 00:00:28 SpaceTime welcome to SpaceTime with

00:00:28 --> 00:00:30 steuart Gary

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00:00:45 --> 00:00:47 scientists have detected ultra high

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00:00:49 --> 00:00:52 center of our galaxy The Milky Way the

00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 findings reported in the Ester physical

00:00:54 --> 00:00:56 Journal letters are giving astronomers a

00:00:56 --> 00:00:58 new look into a violent mystery in the

00:00:58 --> 00:01:01 galactic core the observations were

00:01:01 --> 00:01:03 achieved using the High Altitude water

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00:01:08 --> 00:01:11 Sierra Negra volcano scientists measured

00:01:11 --> 00:01:12 the strength of the newly discovered

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00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 the stud's principal investigator Pat

00:01:22 --> 00:01:23 Harding from the US Department of

00:01:23 --> 00:01:25 Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory

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00:01:27 --> 00:01:29 confirm the Milky Ways galactic center

00:01:29 --> 00:01:32 to Ridge as an actual Source named a p

00:01:32 --> 00:01:35 vron for these high energy gamma rays

00:01:35 --> 00:01:37 pork Observatory has been Gathering data

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00:01:39 --> 00:01:41 Harding and colleagues observe nearly

00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 100 Gamay events with energies of more

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00:01:46 --> 00:01:47 observations have allowed Cosmic gray

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00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 directly studied and therefore compared

00:01:51 --> 00:01:53 with other observations helping to pin

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00:01:56 --> 00:01:59 the actual P vron itself Remains Not

00:01:59 --> 00:02:01 well understood phenomenon but the fact

00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 of its existence in whatever form it

00:02:03 --> 00:02:05 takes points to the violent regime

00:02:05 --> 00:02:07 occurring in the galactic center now of

00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 course this is the same region of the

00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 Milky Way known to contain Sagittarius A

00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 star Galaxy's Central super massive

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00:02:16 --> 00:02:17 neutron stars and white dwarves which

00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 are stripping material from other nearby

00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 Stars Sagittarius A star itself has

00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 about 4.3 million times the mass of our

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00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 extreme environment ultra high energy

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00:02:50 --> 00:02:53 a patron source and that accelerates the

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00:03:01 --> 00:03:03 and the cosmic gray photons generated by

00:03:03 --> 00:03:05 the patron are traveling at more than

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00:03:10 --> 00:03:13 ultra high energy gamma rays the

00:03:13 --> 00:03:15 energies involved went into some of the

00:03:15 --> 00:03:17 most violent processes conceivable in

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00:03:19 --> 00:03:21 such as the death of stars in Supernova

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00:03:26 --> 00:03:28 black hole swallowing up another black

00:03:28 --> 00:03:30 hole Hing says that a lot of these

00:03:30 --> 00:03:32 processes are so rare one wouldn't

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00:03:40 --> 00:03:43 galaxy Hawk is a unique experiment

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00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 the Earth it comprises 300 well really

00:03:51 --> 00:03:53 they're grain silos that have been

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00:03:57 --> 00:03:59 detectors when ultra high energy

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00:04:20 --> 00:04:21 scientists then analyze the time

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00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 the energy regimes involved finding the

00:04:27 --> 00:04:29 origins of the particles as ultra high

00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 energy Gamay the hawk Observatory was

00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 built on the groundbreaking migrow

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00:04:38 --> 00:04:40 700 light detectors built just outside

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00:04:48 --> 00:04:50 capture particles closer to the galactic

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00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 the center of the Milky Way scientists

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00:05:44 --> 00:05:46 astronomers have discovered what may be

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00:05:49 --> 00:05:50 newly discovered system located some

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00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 direct evidence of what astronomers

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00:05:58 --> 00:06:00 many solar mass black holes detected so

00:06:00 --> 00:06:03 far appear to be binary systems made up

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00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 findings reported in the journal Nature

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00:06:28 --> 00:06:30 Discovery now this new system consist of

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00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 now that's a configuration similar to

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00:06:45 --> 00:06:46 second star appears to be circling the

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00:06:48 --> 00:06:50 distance the study's authors estimate

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00:06:59 --> 00:07:01 hole on logic so far away is Raising

00:07:01 --> 00:07:03 questions about the origins of the black

00:07:03 --> 00:07:06 hole itself see still aass black holes

00:07:06 --> 00:07:08 are thought to have formed through the

00:07:08 --> 00:07:10 violent explosion of a Dying star in a

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00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 Supernova during this process the star

00:07:15 --> 00:07:16 releases huge amounts of energy and

00:07:16 --> 00:07:19 light in a final burst before suddenly

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00:07:22 --> 00:07:23 this team's Discovery however suggest

00:07:24 --> 00:07:25 that if the newly observed black hole

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00:07:29 --> 00:07:30 before before it collapsed would have

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00:07:54 --> 00:07:55 what scientists believe may have

00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 happened with this black hole in this

00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 three-part system the blood black hole

00:08:00 --> 00:08:02 formed through a more gentle process of

00:08:02 --> 00:08:04 direct collapse in which the star simply

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00:08:06 --> 00:08:09 without the dramatic last minute flash

00:08:09 --> 00:08:11 such a gentle origin wouldn't disturb

00:08:11 --> 00:08:14 any Loosely bound far away objects

00:08:14 --> 00:08:16 because the new triple system includes a

00:08:16 --> 00:08:17 very far off star it suggests the

00:08:17 --> 00:08:19 system's primary black hole was born

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00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 discovery of this triple black hole

00:08:24 --> 00:08:26 systems come almost by Chance the

00:08:26 --> 00:08:28 authors had been looking within the

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00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 holes out of curiosity they reviewed an

00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 image of V 404 signy that's a black hole

00:08:36 --> 00:08:38 about 8 light years away that was

00:08:38 --> 00:08:40 one of the very first objects ever

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00:08:43 --> 00:08:47 1992 since then v44 signy has become one

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00:09:08 --> 00:09:10 star is so close that it's shedding some

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00:09:14 --> 00:09:15 light however was something scientists

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00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 authors Kevin barriage says the fact

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00:09:30 --> 00:09:33 fairly far apart he calculated that this

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00:09:55 --> 00:09:56 course that raises another question

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00:10:00 --> 00:10:02 inner star to find out the authors

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00:10:24 --> 00:10:26 this system have formed well if the

00:10:26 --> 00:10:28 black hole arose from a typical

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00:10:30 --> 00:10:33 have kicked away the outer star long ago

00:10:33 --> 00:10:34 however simulation showed that the

00:10:34 --> 00:10:36 easiest way to make the triple system

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00:10:39 --> 00:10:40 addition to giving clues about the black

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00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 revealed the system's age that's because

00:10:45 --> 00:10:46 the star happens to be in the process of

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00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 occurs at the end of a star's life now

00:10:51 --> 00:10:53 based on this Stellar transition the

00:10:53 --> 00:10:54 author determined that the arter star is

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00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 is spacetime still to come problems with

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00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 cardiovascular health after all all that

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00:12:05 --> 00:12:07 solar array system or Lisa T is a thin

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00:12:33 --> 00:12:36 spacex's Transporter 11 Mission once in

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00:13:02 --> 00:13:04 extend at about a meter the four pedals

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00:13:06 --> 00:13:08 boom would then be clear to be released

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00:13:11 --> 00:13:14 using shape memory Alloys however on

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00:13:15 --> 00:13:18 central boom has failed to fully extend

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00:13:22 --> 00:13:25 Communications operations John Carr the

00:13:25 --> 00:13:26 deputy chief technologist at Nas's

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00:13:46 --> 00:13:50 antenna it's a super compact stowable

00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 thin film solar aray that when fully

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00:13:57 --> 00:14:00 for small spacecraft Lisa T provides

00:14:00 --> 00:14:01 significantly more electrical power

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00:14:12 --> 00:14:15 space than currently possible L was

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00:14:20 --> 00:14:22 is a flight project with the Pathfinder

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00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 several commercial Partners played a key

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00:14:36 --> 00:14:39 solar and microlink devices the

00:14:39 --> 00:14:42 importance of the Lisa technology cannot

00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 be understated small spacecraft are

00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 becoming increasingly important to

00:14:46 --> 00:14:48 NASA's deep space science and

00:14:48 --> 00:14:51 exploration goals the challenge we often

00:14:51 --> 00:14:53 see with small spacecraft is they tend

00:14:53 --> 00:14:56 to have very little mass and volume to

00:14:56 --> 00:14:59 spare if we want to do more with with

00:14:59 --> 00:15:00 these missions and send smaller

00:15:00 --> 00:15:03 spacecraft further into space we need to

00:15:03 --> 00:15:06 provide them with access to more power

00:15:06 --> 00:15:09 without requiring a large amount of mass

00:15:09 --> 00:15:11 and volume but how do you do that when

00:15:11 --> 00:15:14 space and Mass is at a premium Lisa

00:15:15 --> 00:15:17 meets this challenge with its thin film

00:15:17 --> 00:15:20 solar array which offers 300% more power

00:15:20 --> 00:15:21 per mass and volume than current

00:15:21 --> 00:15:24 state-of-the-art thick film Solar Ray

00:15:24 --> 00:15:27 the spacecraft prepares L for deployment

00:15:27 --> 00:15:30 and Begins by fir ing the first burn

00:15:30 --> 00:15:32 mechanism to cut tie down cords and

00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 release the central booms these booms

00:15:36 --> 00:15:38 passively deploy via stored kinetic

00:15:38 --> 00:15:41 energy with this process the solar

00:15:41 --> 00:15:44 arrays are pushed away from Lisa's main

00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 structure giving it room to expand a

00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 second burn mechanism is then activated

00:15:49 --> 00:15:52 to release each of the four solar panels

00:15:52 --> 00:15:54 which are tightly folded at top these

00:15:54 --> 00:15:57 Central booms these panels are then

00:15:57 --> 00:15:59 actively unfolded by a shape memory

00:15:59 --> 00:16:01 alloy that is embedded on the back of

00:16:01 --> 00:16:04 the panels after completely unfolding

00:16:04 --> 00:16:06 the panels lock themselves into place

00:16:06 --> 00:16:08 and maintain their shape and structure

00:16:08 --> 00:16:10 for the duration of the mission that's

00:16:10 --> 00:16:12 John Carr the deputy chief technologist

00:16:12 --> 00:16:14 at NASA's Marshall space flight center

00:16:14 --> 00:16:17 in Huntsville Alabama and this is

00:16:17 --> 00:16:18 spacetime

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00:16:34 --> 00:16:35 and time now to take another brief look

00:16:35 --> 00:16:36 at some of the other stories making news

00:16:37 --> 00:16:38 in science this week with a science

00:16:38 --> 00:16:41 report a new study has shown that

00:16:41 --> 00:16:43 standing more compared to sitting really

00:16:43 --> 00:16:45 doesn't improve cardiovascular health

00:16:45 --> 00:16:47 after all the findings reported in the

00:16:47 --> 00:16:49 international Journal of epidemiology

00:16:49 --> 00:16:51 come despite the growing popularity of

00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 so-called standing desks in offices

00:16:54 --> 00:16:56 they're used by people looking to offset

00:16:56 --> 00:16:58 the harms of a sedentary lifestyle

00:16:58 --> 00:17:00 caused by spending long day sitting in

00:17:00 --> 00:17:02 front of a computer screen however

00:17:02 --> 00:17:04 scientists at the University of Sydney

00:17:04 --> 00:17:05 have shown that over the long term

00:17:06 --> 00:17:07 standing more compared with sitting

00:17:07 --> 00:17:09 doesn't improve cardiovascular health

00:17:09 --> 00:17:11 such as coronary heart disease stroke or

00:17:11 --> 00:17:13 heart failure and in fact it could

00:17:13 --> 00:17:15 increase the risk of circulatory issues

00:17:15 --> 00:17:17 related to standing such as varicose

00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 veins and deep vein

00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 thrombosis paleontologists have describe

00:17:23 --> 00:17:25 the fossilized skull of an extinct giant

00:17:25 --> 00:17:27 elephant discovered in Northern India's

00:17:27 --> 00:17:30 Kashmir Valley in the year 2000 the new

00:17:30 --> 00:17:32 research reported in the journal

00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 vertebrate paleontology sheds fresh

00:17:34 --> 00:17:36 light on a poorly understood episode of

00:17:36 --> 00:17:39 elephant evolutionary history the skull

00:17:39 --> 00:17:42 was buried with some 87 stone tools used

00:17:42 --> 00:17:45 by prehistoric humans s to say that from

00:17:45 --> 00:17:47 the general shape of the skull the

00:17:47 --> 00:17:49 elephant belonged to pale loxodon a

00:17:49 --> 00:17:51 straight Tusk family of elephants which

00:17:51 --> 00:17:53 are among the largest land mammals that

00:17:53 --> 00:17:55 ever lived fully grown adults could

00:17:55 --> 00:17:57 easily stand around 4 M tall at the

00:17:57 --> 00:18:01 shoulder and weit up to 10 tons Now by

00:18:01 --> 00:18:03 comparison a modern-day Asian elephant

00:18:03 --> 00:18:05 weighs about 6 tons and their African

00:18:05 --> 00:18:08 counterparts about seven however this

00:18:08 --> 00:18:10 Kashmere skull lacks a thick and forward

00:18:10 --> 00:18:12 projecting Crest at the skull roof which

00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 typifies other paleo loxodon skulls

00:18:14 --> 00:18:17 found in India scientists had speculated

00:18:17 --> 00:18:19 that the skull Crest in these extinct

00:18:19 --> 00:18:21 elephants became more prominent with

00:18:21 --> 00:18:23 Developmental and sexual maturity but

00:18:23 --> 00:18:26 from the size the wisdom teeth and a few

00:18:26 --> 00:18:27 other Telltale features of the skull it

00:18:27 --> 00:18:29 was evident that this animal was already

00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 a majestic bu elephant at the prime of

00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 its life so the lack of a well-developed

00:18:34 --> 00:18:36 skull Crest means this must have been a

00:18:36 --> 00:18:38 new and different

00:18:39 --> 00:18:41 species a new study has found that

00:18:41 --> 00:18:42 artificial intelligence assist

00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 colonoscopies increase pop and edema

00:18:45 --> 00:18:47 detection in routine screening the

00:18:47 --> 00:18:49 findings reported in the Journal of the

00:18:49 --> 00:18:51 anals of internal medicine follows a

00:18:51 --> 00:18:53 systematic review of randomized clinical

00:18:53 --> 00:18:55 trials comparing AI assisted

00:18:55 --> 00:18:57 colonoscopies and conventional

00:18:57 --> 00:18:59 examinations they found found that AI

00:18:59 --> 00:19:01 assister colonoscopies found more

00:19:01 --> 00:19:03 pull-ups and precancerous growths in the

00:19:03 --> 00:19:05 colon than conventional

00:19:05 --> 00:19:07 examinations however the difference was

00:19:07 --> 00:19:09 only marginal no better than the

00:19:09 --> 00:19:11 conventional method of finding serious

00:19:11 --> 00:19:13 growths per

00:19:13 --> 00:19:15 colonoscopy Apple have release their

00:19:15 --> 00:19:17 first artificial intelligence update

00:19:17 --> 00:19:19 with the details we're joined by

00:19:19 --> 00:19:21 technology editor Alex Sahara Roy from

00:19:21 --> 00:19:24 Tech advice. life it will be arriving on

00:19:25 --> 00:19:27 iPhones iPads and Mac this will

00:19:27 --> 00:19:29 introduce the first tranch of Apple's

00:19:29 --> 00:19:31 intelligence update this is the first

00:19:31 --> 00:19:33 set of their features the personal

00:19:33 --> 00:19:35 intelligence system protecting your data

00:19:35 --> 00:19:37 privacy and AI Apple has been very

00:19:37 --> 00:19:39 strong on privacy and they'd like to

00:19:39 --> 00:19:41 ensure that people think that they're

00:19:41 --> 00:19:42 going to be just as careful with your

00:19:42 --> 00:19:45 data in a world of AI compared with open

00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 AI or Google or Facebook where privacy

00:19:48 --> 00:19:49 is something they feel they have access

00:19:49 --> 00:19:51 to your data and they can sell it so

00:19:51 --> 00:19:52 we're yet to see if that strategy is

00:19:52 --> 00:19:54 going to work for apple as it has in the

00:19:54 --> 00:19:57 past I know that there'll be 18.2 the

00:19:57 --> 00:19:59 next update the next version of Apple's

00:19:59 --> 00:20:01 intelligence that will come in December

00:20:01 --> 00:20:03 and then we will see the image

00:20:03 --> 00:20:05 playground you'll be able to create

00:20:05 --> 00:20:07 images just by typing in text or

00:20:07 --> 00:20:09 removing people by drawing a circle

00:20:09 --> 00:20:10 around items that you don't want on a

00:20:10 --> 00:20:12 page which just copying things we've

00:20:12 --> 00:20:14 seen from Samsung and Google for some

00:20:14 --> 00:20:16 time so Apple's planes can catch up

00:20:16 --> 00:20:17 there's no question that they're behind

00:20:17 --> 00:20:20 the times Tim Cook the CEO of Apple did

00:20:20 --> 00:20:22 a big interview in the last week where

00:20:22 --> 00:20:24 he acknowledge that Apple can be late

00:20:24 --> 00:20:25 sometimes but they like to think that

00:20:25 --> 00:20:28 they get it right and do it in the most

00:20:28 --> 00:20:31 private and secure way so the AI Wars uh

00:20:31 --> 00:20:34 have barely just begun 2025 will'll see

00:20:34 --> 00:20:37 a huge battle for the hearts Minds

00:20:37 --> 00:20:40 wallets and usage of everyday people

00:20:40 --> 00:20:43 around the world wanting benefit from AI

00:20:43 --> 00:20:46 That's Alex Sahara Roy from take advice.

00:20:46 --> 00:20:48 life

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