A cosmic blast’s dazzling glow hints at a monster in hiding Astronomers say a seemingly ordinary flash of gamma rays followed by an unusually bright afterglow is pointing to a powerful stellar monster lurking out of sight. Coronal mass ejections discovered erupting from a black hole Astronomers have for the first time, discovered an event similar to a coronal mass ejection blasting out of a Black hole. Virgin Galactic unveils its new Delta Class Space Plane Virgin Galactic has formally unveiled the first of its new next generation Delta class spaceplanes at its New Mexico Space Port. The Science Report Exposure to bushfires while pregnant linked to kids being later diagnosed with autism. Antarctic Intermediate Water rapidly reversing is long-term trends in salinity and density. Paleontologists have discovered the remains of a new species of herbivorous dinosaur. Bans on smartphones in schools shown not to have had any impact on teen mental health. Alex on Tech: cracks in the success of Apples new Iphone Duo.
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 Stuart Gary: This is space Time Series 29, episode
00:00:02 --> 00:00:05 132 for broadcast on the 4th of November
00:00:05 --> 00:00:08 2026. Coming up on Space Time.
00:00:08 --> 00:00:11 A cosmic blast dazzling glow hints at a
00:00:11 --> 00:00:14 monster in hiding what looks like coronal
00:00:14 --> 00:00:16 mass ejections discovered erupting from a
00:00:16 --> 00:00:19 black hole. And Virgin Galactic
00:00:19 --> 00:00:21 unveils its new Delta class space plane.
00:00:22 --> 00:00:25 All that and more coming up on, um, Space
00:00:25 --> 00:00:25 Time.
00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 Stuart Gary: Welcome to Space Time with Stuart
00:00:29 --> 00:00:29 G.
00:00:46 --> 00:00:48 Stuart Gary: Astronomers say a seemingly ordinary flash of
00:00:48 --> 00:00:50 gamma rays followed by an unusually bright
00:00:50 --> 00:00:52 afterglow are now pointing to what could be a
00:00:52 --> 00:00:55 powerful stellar monster lurking out of
00:00:55 --> 00:00:57 sight. The gamma ray burst observations
00:00:57 --> 00:01:00 reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02 resulted in one of the brightest afterglows
00:01:02 --> 00:01:05 recorded in the 20 years. The
00:01:05 --> 00:01:06 event, catalogued as
00:01:06 --> 00:01:09 GIB2603.10A, was detected by
00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope back
00:01:12 --> 00:01:15 on March 10. Its initial gamma ray
00:01:15 --> 00:01:18 flash lasted about 53 seconds and caught
00:01:18 --> 00:01:19 astronomers attention for releasing
00:01:19 --> 00:01:22 apparently very little energy. But the
00:01:22 --> 00:01:24 afterglow that followed told a very different
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 story. In visible light, this afterglow
00:01:27 --> 00:01:29 brightened gradually over several hours,
00:01:29 --> 00:01:31 becoming brighter than the galaxy that hosted
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 the blast before eventually fading away.
00:01:33 --> 00:01:35 Then, in the weeks after the initial flash,
00:01:35 --> 00:01:38 its X ray glow brightened again and remained
00:01:38 --> 00:01:40 visible for months. Gamma ray
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 bursts are the most powerful explosions in
00:01:43 --> 00:01:45 the universe since the Big Bang, releasing
00:01:45 --> 00:01:47 more energy in a few seconds than what our
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49 sun will emit during its entire 12 billion
00:01:49 --> 00:01:52 year lifespan. Short period gamma ray
00:01:52 --> 00:01:55 bursts, those under 2 seconds, are caused by
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 the violent collision and merger of compact
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 binary objects such as neutron stars or black
00:02:00 --> 00:02:03 holes. These produce killer novae
00:02:03 --> 00:02:05 and can forge heavy elements like gold and
00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 platinum. Long, um, period gamma ray bursts,
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 those lasting more than two seconds, are ah,
00:02:10 --> 00:02:12 caused by the core collapse supernova
00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 explosions of massive, fast spinning stars
00:02:14 --> 00:02:16 more than 30 times the mass of our sun that
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 are collapsing to form black holes.
00:02:19 --> 00:02:22 All gamma ray bursts produce brief flashes of
00:02:22 --> 00:02:24 gamma rays and blast out jets of matter at,
00:02:24 --> 00:02:27 ah, close to the speed of light. As these
00:02:27 --> 00:02:28 jets plough through the surrounding
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 interstellar gases, they produce an afterglow
00:02:31 --> 00:02:33 that telescopes can follow in X rays, visible
00:02:33 --> 00:02:36 light, and even radio waves. One of the
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38 study's authors, Roberto Ricci from the
00:02:38 --> 00:02:41 University of Rome, says while his team see
00:02:41 --> 00:02:42 hundreds of gamma ray bursts every year,
00:02:42 --> 00:02:44 oddballs like this one are the most
00:02:44 --> 00:02:46 informative. Ricky and colleagues could
00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 explain individual features of the burst,
00:02:48 --> 00:02:50 but, uh, fitting them all together into the
00:02:50 --> 00:02:52 same picture proved to be much harder.
00:02:53 --> 00:02:55 The authors say the evidence points to
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57 perspective. The Earth was simply outside the
00:02:57 --> 00:02:59 most intensely beamed light from the
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 explosion. See astronomers most easily detect
00:03:02 --> 00:03:04 these explosions when the jets are pointing
00:03:04 --> 00:03:06 directly towards Earth. Just like a
00:03:06 --> 00:03:08 flashlight, the jet appears brightest when
00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 seen head on. Most models are calibrated
00:03:11 --> 00:03:13 using events seen from the same perspective,
00:03:13 --> 00:03:16 but this burst gave astronomers a chance to
00:03:16 --> 00:03:17 look beyond the glare.
00:03:18 --> 00:03:20 GRB2603.10a showed the
00:03:20 --> 00:03:23 telltale signatures of a jet pointing away
00:03:23 --> 00:03:25 from the Earth. Its gamma ray output was
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 unremarkable, but its observed X ray and
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 optical afterglows ranked among the brightest
00:03:30 --> 00:03:33 1% and its radio brightness among the top
00:03:33 --> 00:03:36 5%. As the jet slowed down,
00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 its light became visible over a wider range
00:03:38 --> 00:03:41 of angles, allowing astronomers to probe the
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 jet's shape from its outer edges towards its
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 inner core. Three weeks after the initial
00:03:46 --> 00:03:48 burst, the X ray afterglow brightened again
00:03:48 --> 00:03:50 and remained bright for over a week before
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 fading again. The authors think this was
00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 because the burst was powered by a jet with
00:03:55 --> 00:03:58 narrow energetic core surrounded by a broader
00:03:58 --> 00:03:59 slower outflow.
00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 In this picture, the early afterglow
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 radiation comes from the broader wings of the
00:04:04 --> 00:04:06 jet while the light from its narrow core
00:04:06 --> 00:04:07 becomes visible later, uh, causing the
00:04:07 --> 00:04:10 brightening of the X ray afterglow. This is
00:04:10 --> 00:04:13 space time still to come. A
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16 uh, stellar like coronial mass ejection seen
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19 erupting from a black hole for the first time
00:04:19 --> 00:04:22 and Virgin Galactic unveils its new Delta
00:04:22 --> 00:04:25 class space plane. All that and more still to
00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 come on space time.
00:04:36 --> 00:04:38 Astronomers have for the first time
00:04:38 --> 00:04:40 discovered an event similar to a coronal mass
00:04:40 --> 00:04:42 ejection which normally blasts out of stars.
00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 But this one was blasting out of a black
00:04:44 --> 00:04:47 hole. The observations reported in the
00:04:47 --> 00:04:50 Astrophysical Journal Letters represent the
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 first ever evidence of a solar storm like
00:04:52 --> 00:04:53 magnetic eruption event from the space
00:04:53 --> 00:04:56 surrounding a supermassive black hole. The
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 phenomenon was discovered in the Galaxy NGC
00:04:59 --> 00:05:02 3783, a barred spiral galaxy
00:05:02 --> 00:05:04 in the constellation centaurus located some
00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 135 million light years away.
00:05:07 --> 00:05:10 Coronal mass ejections are uh, powerful
00:05:10 --> 00:05:12 explosions linked to stellar flares blasting
00:05:12 --> 00:05:15 out millions to billions of tons of charged
00:05:15 --> 00:05:17 particles. X ray radiation and magnetic field
00:05:17 --> 00:05:20 off the surface of stars including our Sun.
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 These coronal mass ejections originate from
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 the conversion of magnetic energy into
00:05:25 --> 00:05:26 kinetic energy through through a process
00:05:26 --> 00:05:29 called magnetic reconnection. The
00:05:29 --> 00:05:31 study's lead author uh Gal Vardy from
00:05:31 --> 00:05:34 Technicon the Israel Institute of Technology,
00:05:34 --> 00:05:36 says it's the first time magnetic
00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 reconnection eruptions have been observed
00:05:38 --> 00:05:40 originating from the corona of a black hole.
00:05:41 --> 00:05:42 Vardy and colleagues monitored X ray
00:05:42 --> 00:05:44 emissions from near the black hole using
00:05:44 --> 00:05:47 NASA's CRISM space telescope. The
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48 phenomenon they identified near the Black
00:05:48 --> 00:05:50 hole is known as the Newport Effect.
00:05:51 --> 00:05:53 It was first discovered on the sun back in
00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 1968, but had never previously been observed
00:05:55 --> 00:05:58 around black holes. The new findings
00:05:58 --> 00:06:01 mean the same physical processes underlying
00:06:01 --> 00:06:03 solar storms on the sun could also occur in
00:06:03 --> 00:06:05 the environments surrounding supermassive
00:06:05 --> 00:06:08 black holes. This is space time
00:06:09 --> 00:06:12 still to come. Virgin Galactic unveils its
00:06:12 --> 00:06:14 new Delta class space plane. And later in the
00:06:14 --> 00:06:17 science report, a new study warns exposure
00:06:17 --> 00:06:20 to bushfire smoke while pregnant could lead
00:06:20 --> 00:06:22 to your kids being later diagnosed with
00:06:22 --> 00:06:22 autism.
00:06:23 --> 00:06:25 All that and more still to come on space
00:06:25 --> 00:06:26 time.
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 Virgin Galactic has formally unveiled the
00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 first of its new next generation Delta class
00:06:46 --> 00:06:49 spaceplanes at its New Mexico spaceport.
00:06:49 --> 00:06:52 Named Pyron, ancient Greek for boundless, the
00:06:52 --> 00:06:54 new suborbital spaceplane is designed to
00:06:54 --> 00:06:57 achieve what its SpaceShipTwo predecessors
00:06:57 --> 00:06:59 Unity and Enterprise couldn't, that is reach
00:06:59 --> 00:07:02 the 100 kilometres high Karman line. The
00:07:02 --> 00:07:04 official start of space. Enterprise
00:07:04 --> 00:07:06 crashed during flight tests back in October
00:07:06 --> 00:07:09 2014 due to pilot error. And Unity
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 reached a maximum altitude of 89.23
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 kilometres during one of its 33 test and
00:07:15 --> 00:07:18 commercial flights. That official boundary of
00:07:18 --> 00:07:20 space at 100 kilometres remained elusive.
00:07:21 --> 00:07:23 The new Delta class also replaces the
00:07:23 --> 00:07:26 Spaceship 3 vehicles, Imagine and Inspire,
00:07:26 --> 00:07:27 which were originally designed for commercial
00:07:27 --> 00:07:30 orbital flights but were cancelled before
00:07:30 --> 00:07:32 either was completed. The new rocket
00:07:32 --> 00:07:35 planes feature increased passenger capacity,
00:07:35 --> 00:07:37 carrying six instead of four. They also have
00:07:37 --> 00:07:40 the ability to fly at high cadence, with up
00:07:40 --> 00:07:43 to eight flights per month compared to
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 Unity's one flight per month. But space
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 tourism tickets on the new planes will be
00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 more expensive at around
00:07:50 --> 00:07:53 US$850 per seat. Of
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 course, that is return. A Parron was flown
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 to New Mexico mounted between the twin
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 fuselage of its EVE mothership for its
00:08:00 --> 00:08:02 journey from the manufacturing facility at
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 Mesa, Arizona. Engineers will now undertake
00:08:05 --> 00:08:07 finishing work on the vehicle's avionics
00:08:07 --> 00:08:09 software ahead of test flights slated for
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 next year. If all goes well, space turrets
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 could be flying aboard the new space plane by
00:08:14 --> 00:08:16 the middle of 2027. Work on a
00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 second Delta class vehicle is now underway.
00:08:19 --> 00:08:22 This promotional report from Virgin Galactic
00:08:22 --> 00:08:25 Virgin Galactic spokesperson: at uh, Virgin Galactic, we've made incredible
00:08:25 --> 00:08:26 strides forward.
00:08:28 --> 00:08:30 Our spaceship Unity proved itself,
00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 completing six spaceflights in six months,
00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 creating 19 new astronauts, a
00:08:36 --> 00:08:39 launch rate never seen before in the history
00:08:39 --> 00:08:40 of human spaceflight.
00:08:45 --> 00:08:47 And we're just getting started
00:08:47 --> 00:08:50 introducing the design of Virgin Galactic's
00:08:50 --> 00:08:53 Delta class spaceship. Delta is a
00:08:53 --> 00:08:56 next generation design, with each vehicle
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 creating thousands of astronauts in its life
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 cycle, broadening the opportunity of space
00:09:01 --> 00:09:03 travel from the few to the many.
00:09:04 --> 00:09:05 Delta class spaceships will upgrade our
00:09:05 --> 00:09:08 number of passengers from four to six and
00:09:08 --> 00:09:10 will harness the supersonic might of the
00:09:10 --> 00:09:13 world's most powerful hybrid rocket system.
00:09:13 --> 00:09:15 Delta class spaceships are designed in
00:09:15 --> 00:09:17 subcomponents and built using state of the
00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 art aerospace development practices, enabling
00:09:20 --> 00:09:23 a far more efficient and rapid build.
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 A new design brings new efficiency to get us
00:09:26 --> 00:09:28 back in the air faster between flights.
00:09:28 --> 00:09:31 Spaceship Unity is limited to fly once a
00:09:31 --> 00:09:33 month, whereas Delta spaceships will be able
00:09:33 --> 00:09:36 to fly twice a week over eight
00:09:36 --> 00:09:39 times more efficient. Manufacturing
00:09:39 --> 00:09:41 spaceships in this way allows multiple
00:09:41 --> 00:09:43 vehicles to be made, with each spaceport
00:09:43 --> 00:09:45 around the world having up to five ships in
00:09:45 --> 00:09:48 their fleet. Virgin Galactic's Delta class
00:09:48 --> 00:09:50 vehicle isn't just a spaceship, it's the
00:09:50 --> 00:09:52 start of a spaceline.
00:09:56 --> 00:09:58 Stuart Gary: This is space, time.
00:10:13 --> 00:10:15 And time. Now to take another brief look at
00:10:15 --> 00:10:17 some of the other stories making news in
00:10:17 --> 00:10:19 Science this week with a science report.
00:10:19 --> 00:10:22 Scientists have found a link between being
00:10:22 --> 00:10:24 exposed to bushfire related fine particulate
00:10:24 --> 00:10:26 matter and kids resulting from their
00:10:26 --> 00:10:29 pregnancy later being diagnosed with autism
00:10:29 --> 00:10:31 spectrum disorder. The research, reported in
00:10:31 --> 00:10:33 the Journal of the American Medical
00:10:33 --> 00:10:35 association, looked into data from some
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 900 mother child pairs, finding
00:10:38 --> 00:10:40 higher exposure to the pollution was linked
00:10:40 --> 00:10:42 to an increased risk of kids with autism.
00:10:43 --> 00:10:45 However, interestingly, the same link wasn't
00:10:45 --> 00:10:48 found for kids with adhd, which is often
00:10:48 --> 00:10:50 associated with autism. The authors found the
00:10:50 --> 00:10:53 link was strongest when the moms were exposed
00:10:53 --> 00:10:55 during their mid to late pregnancy.
00:10:56 --> 00:10:58 New research warns that Antarctic
00:10:58 --> 00:11:01 intermediate water, a vast layer of fresh
00:11:01 --> 00:11:02 water spanning much of the Southern
00:11:02 --> 00:11:05 hemisphere's ocean, has now rapidly reversed
00:11:05 --> 00:11:07 its long term trends in salinity and density.
00:11:08 --> 00:11:11 Antarctic intermediate water helps store
00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 carbon, supply oxygen and drive global
00:11:13 --> 00:11:16 ocean currents. The new findings, reported
00:11:16 --> 00:11:18 in the journal Nature Climate Change, show
00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 that scientists may have underestimated the
00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 extent of deep ocean warming and rising sea
00:11:23 --> 00:11:24 levels.
00:11:25 --> 00:11:27 Palaeontologists may have discovered the
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 remains of a new species of herbivorous
00:11:29 --> 00:11:32 dinosaur, Infernogalus, meaning
00:11:32 --> 00:11:34 Hell Chicken, was unearthed at the famous
00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 Hell Creek Formation, which stretches through
00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 Montana, north and South Dakota and Wyoming.
00:11:40 --> 00:11:42 The findings, reported in the journal Nature
00:11:42 --> 00:11:44 Communications, includes a nearly complete
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 articulated skull and partial skeleton.
00:11:47 --> 00:11:50 Infernogallus was a small Oviraptosaur
00:11:50 --> 00:11:51 belonging to a group of small toothless
00:11:51 --> 00:11:53 feathered dinosaurs about the size of a
00:11:53 --> 00:11:55 turkey and would have weighed around 12
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 kilogrammes. It featured specialised
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00 chewing muscles only seen today in fruit
00:12:00 --> 00:12:02 eating parrots, which evolved for mashing
00:12:02 --> 00:12:05 soft food, making it the first known dinosaur
00:12:05 --> 00:12:07 that specifically ate fruit.
00:12:08 --> 00:12:10 A new study has shown that bans on
00:12:10 --> 00:12:12 smartphones implemented across schools in
00:12:12 --> 00:12:14 Iceland does not appear to have any
00:12:14 --> 00:12:16 measurable effect on, um, teenagers mental
00:12:16 --> 00:12:18 health. The Findings reported in the Journal
00:12:18 --> 00:12:21 of the American Medical association is based
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 on surveys involving 24
00:12:24 --> 00:12:25 to 15 year olds.
00:12:25 --> 00:12:28 The authors surveyed the students in 2016,
00:12:28 --> 00:12:31 2018 and 2023, involving
00:12:31 --> 00:12:33 22 of the 70 schools implementing the
00:12:33 --> 00:12:36 smartphone ban. During that time, they
00:12:36 --> 00:12:39 found no evidence that removing phones from
00:12:39 --> 00:12:41 schools was linked to any changes in
00:12:41 --> 00:12:44 depression or anxiety symptoms, hostility or
00:12:44 --> 00:12:45 well being among the students.
00:12:47 --> 00:12:50 Apple's new $3 iPhone Duo
00:12:50 --> 00:12:52 is under scrutiny, with frustrated customers
00:12:52 --> 00:12:55 reporting cracks, lines and display failures
00:12:55 --> 00:12:57 developing around the screen's hinged area
00:12:57 --> 00:13:00 within hours of use. With the details, we're
00:13:00 --> 00:13:02 joined by technology editor Alex Zaharov
00:13:02 --> 00:13:04 Royce from tech advice Start Life.
00:13:04 --> 00:13:05 Jonathan Nally: Although Samsung has been doing it for eight
00:13:05 --> 00:13:07 years, Apple chose a fundamentally different
00:13:07 --> 00:13:10 path with its hinge. It's got over 100
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 parts and there's little springs and all
00:13:12 --> 00:13:13 sorts of little things in there so that you
00:13:13 --> 00:13:16 can place the phone open at any angle. With
00:13:16 --> 00:13:18 Samsung Duo, uh, fold, you can open it up,
00:13:18 --> 00:13:20 but if you, if you open it up and it's too
00:13:20 --> 00:13:22 far leading towards the back, it'll just snap
00:13:22 --> 00:13:24 down and become a flat device. Whereas with
00:13:24 --> 00:13:27 Apple, you can put it in any orientation that
00:13:27 --> 00:13:28 you want and it will stay there. Now,
00:13:29 --> 00:13:31 apparently the rumours are that the yield,
00:13:31 --> 00:13:33 the rate of successful manufacture for these
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 hinges was only about 60%. So six in every
00:13:36 --> 00:13:38 ten or sixty in every hundred were
00:13:39 --> 00:13:41 good. And then there was a 40% failure rate
00:13:41 --> 00:13:44 over 100 parts. This is a fiddly
00:13:44 --> 00:13:46 precision device and if something isn't quite
00:13:46 --> 00:13:48 right and one of those little bits gets out
00:13:48 --> 00:13:50 of alignment, it'll pop up and it will
00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 puncture the screen and crack it, which is
00:13:52 --> 00:13:53 reportedly what happened.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:54 Stuart Gary: That is not cool.
00:13:54 --> 00:13:57 Jonathan Nally: Well, look, it's not cool, but when Samsung
00:13:57 --> 00:14:00 launched their first units eight years ago,
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 there were cracking screens then too. It's
00:14:02 --> 00:14:03 Stuart Gary: also the inconvenience, isn't it?
00:14:03 --> 00:14:05 Jonathan Nally: Well, obviously, obviously you have to, you
00:14:05 --> 00:14:07 Stuart Gary: know, drop twice, all that sort of stuff.
00:14:07 --> 00:14:09 Jonathan Nally: There's no question that is an issue. You are
00:14:09 --> 00:14:10 covered by the warranty.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:12 And it's well known in tech that if
00:14:12 --> 00:14:13 something's going to fail, you'll probably
00:14:13 --> 00:14:15 fail in the first week. Now, in this case,
00:14:15 --> 00:14:17 some of these failed within hours. No doubt.
00:14:17 --> 00:14:19 Apple is also working on version 2 of this
00:14:19 --> 00:14:22 hinge for the iPhone Duo 2, that presumably
00:14:22 --> 00:14:24 will come next year. And it's another
00:14:24 --> 00:14:25 warning, never buy version one of anything.
00:14:26 --> 00:14:27 Get version two, preferably get version
00:14:27 --> 00:14:28 three.
00:14:28 --> 00:14:30 Stuart Gary: Next year is a big year for Apple because
00:14:30 --> 00:14:32 it's 20 years since the iPhone first came on
00:14:32 --> 00:14:32 the market. Well,
00:14:32 --> 00:14:33 Jonathan Nally: that's right.
00:14:33 --> 00:14:35 Stuart Gary: And a huge phone, whatever it is, that's got
00:14:35 --> 00:14:36 to be a celebration model.
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 Jonathan Nally: Well, supposedly that's the phone that's got
00:14:38 --> 00:14:40 no dynamic island, no gaps in the screen.
00:14:40 --> 00:14:42 It's an all screen display. It's supposed to
00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 have screens that go over the edges. I don't
00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 know how that's going to work. Samsung tried
00:14:46 --> 00:14:47 that, didn't go so well. But yeah, next
00:14:47 --> 00:14:48 year's iPhone will be amazing.
00:14:48 --> 00:14:50 Stuart Gary: Of course, like buying a set of kitchen
00:14:50 --> 00:14:51 knives at 3 o' clock in the morning. But
00:14:51 --> 00:14:53 wait, there's more from Apple.
00:14:53 --> 00:14:56 Jonathan Nally: Yes, this last week has seen three big
00:14:56 --> 00:14:58 Apple developments. The first one is an new
00:14:58 --> 00:15:00 iPad Mini, 8.5-inch screen, OLED
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01 screen.
00:15:01 --> 00:15:03 So it's uh, beautiful, obviously has the
00:15:03 --> 00:15:05 latest chips inside. Think of it as being
00:15:05 --> 00:15:08 like an unfolded duo. The other thing they've
00:15:08 --> 00:15:10 launched is a new MacBook Pro M M6 and an
00:15:10 --> 00:15:13 iMac M M6. And these have all the AI smarts
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 and they can do the AI things that you would
00:15:15 --> 00:15:16 expect them to do on device, but you
00:15:16 --> 00:15:19 obviously still need to have cloud AI to do
00:15:19 --> 00:15:20 really incredible stuff. And then finally,
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 the big launch. We now have a MacBook Pro
00:15:22 --> 00:15:25 with a touchscreen. So this is offering at
00:15:25 --> 00:15:27 least 24 hours of battery life. You can zoom,
00:15:27 --> 00:15:29 pinch in, you can swipe, you can use the
00:15:29 --> 00:15:31 gesture they use on the trackpad, but you
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 cannot fold the screen back over
00:15:34 --> 00:15:36 to turn it into a tablet. At least not yet. I
00:15:36 --> 00:15:37 mean, we've seen those with Windows devices
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38 since
00:15:38 --> 00:15:39 Stuart Gary: I had an HP like that.
00:15:39 --> 00:15:41 Jonathan Nally: Yeah. Now look, the problem is a lot of
00:15:41 --> 00:15:43 people did not use them in tablet mode and
00:15:43 --> 00:15:44 they haven't really, they haven't really
00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 taken off. It's like the pen on Samsung fold
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 devices. The reason I'm glad I got rid of the
00:15:49 --> 00:15:50 pen is because not enough people used it.
00:15:50 --> 00:15:53 Stuart Gary: That's Alex Zaharov from Tech Advice. Start
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