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Jasmine Hicks | Dec 9, 2021, 1:13pm EST
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825940/spacex-nasa-ixpe-telescope-launch-mission-space

On Thursday morning, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) successfully launched into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The two-year mission, a joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying and measuring X-ray polarization.

Maddie Stone | Dec 29, 2021, 9:40am EST
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling-new-better-method

A new Department of Energy-funded research project seeks to solve one of the biggest challenges with solar power — what to do with solar panels after they die.

Solar energy is key to solving climate change, but for the technology itself to be sustainable it needs to be recyclable. Unfortunately, when a solar panel dies today, it’s likely to meet one of two fates: a shredder or a landfill.

Maddie Stone | Dec 29, 2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling-new-better-method

A new Department of Energy-funded research project seeks to solve one of the biggest challenges with solar power — what to do with solar panels after they die.

Solar energy is key to solving climate change, but for the technology itself to be sustainable it needs to be recyclable. Unfortunately, when a solar panel dies today, it’s likely to meet one of two fates: a shredder or a landfill.

Jasmine Hicks | Dec 9, 2021, 1:13pm EST
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825940/spacex-nasa-ixpe-telescope-launch-mission-space

On Thursday morning, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) successfully launched into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The two-year mission, a joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying and measuring X-ray polarization.

Jasmine Hicks | Dec 29, 2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22858406/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-mission

Following the revolutionary and successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, into space on Christmas day, NASA announced some unexpected news about the telescope’s future: its science mission is likely to last “significantly more” than 10 years — more than double the minimum time for the mission.

Josh Dzieza | @joshdzieza | Feb 1, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence

At some point last year, Google’s constant requests to prove I’m human began to feel increasingly aggressive. More and more, the simple, slightly too-cute button saying “I’m not a robot” was followed by demands to prove it — by selecting all the traffic lights, crosswalks, and storefronts in an image grid. Soon the traffic lights were buried in distant foliage, the crosswalks warped and half around a corner, the storefront signage blurry and in Korean. There’s something uniquely dispiriting about being asked to identify a fire hydrant and struggling at it.

Emma Roth | Jan 2, 2022
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/2/22863442/airpods-pro-2-lossless-audio-charging-case-sound

The second-generation AirPods Pro may support Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and could even come with a case that makes a sound to help you find it, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a note to investors seen by AppleInsider and 9to5Mac.

Jennifer Pattison | Tuohy@jp2e | Jan 3, 2022
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22865040/arlo-smart-home-security-system-price-availability-ces2022

Arlo announced the impending arrival of its long-awaited home security system at CES 2022 this week, and the product even got a nod as a 2022 CES Innovation Award honoree. The company, known for its top-quality smart security cameras, also announced its support for Matter, a possible indication that a Matter specification for security cameras isn’t too far away.

The DIY security monitoring solution is a natural expansion for the company that has a full suite of home security cameras. So natural that it actually announced one at CES 2019.

Andrew J. Hawkins | @andyjayhawk | Jan 3, 2022
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22855555/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-ev-range-ces-2022

Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to make a grab for the title of the longest-range electric vehicle with the reveal of the Vision EQXX, a solar-powered concept car capable of exceeding 1,000 kilometers (648 miles) on a single charge.