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The James Webb Space Telescope finishes unfolding its primary mirror, concluding major deployments

January 8, 2022
The James Webb Telescope (JWST) has finished unfolding its primary mirror, ending a series of major deployments that took place over the span of two weeks. All of those deployments needed to go perfectly in order for the massive space telescope, which was decades in the making, to function. The JWST has two primary mirror panels on either side that it will use to collect infrared light from the…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $2,500 Chinese farm truck

January 8, 2022
Electric farm trucks are awesome – I actually bought one from China to use as a utility vehicle around my parents’ sprawling property. But while mine looks like a knockoff American truck, I recently found a much more Eastern-style truck that has me intrigued. It’s a perfect selection for the latest entry in my Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column! As usual, I’m not…
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World’s largest floating solar farm comes online with wind and storage

January 8, 2022
Beijing-headquartered electric power company Huaneng Power International (HPI) has completed the world’s largest floating solar project in Dezhou, which is in Shandong, an eastern Chinese province on the Yellow Sea. The 320 megawatt (MW) project is the largest floating solar farm to come online to date. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your…
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AI Weekly: The implications of self-driving tractors and coming AI regulations

January 8, 2022
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more It’s 2022, and developments in the AI industry are off to a slow — but nonetheless eventful — start. While the spread of the Omicron variant put a damper on in-person conferences, enterprises aren’t letting the pandemic disrupt the course of…
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