Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Anker Solix wants your solar battery to learn when to charge on its own. We ask a maker and a hedger.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Anker Solix plans software updates by year's end for its Solarbank and X-series storage. PowerOS becomes more agent-based, deciding more on its own. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The core is a self-learning planner. It weighs weather, household usage and power prices to decide when to charge. Ada, is that clever? ▶
ADA: Very! One engine juggling several inputs at once, deciding charge or discharge without anyone touching a dial. That's a lovely control loop. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Up to 30 percent, in internal simulations. Whose living room was simulated? ▶
ADA: Simulation is where every first prototype lives. The real test is real roofs, real clouds and a real dynamic tariff. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Fewer manual settings is a gift, right up until the battery picks the wrong afternoon. ▶
ADA: And part of it is already in: Surplus Alert forecasts solar surplus and tells users, so they can act on it. Measure twice, then charge once. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Nobody asked the dishwasher whether it wants to be scheduled. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: What the article gives us: updates planned by year's end, gains from the company's own simulations, and an algorithm that learns. The rest we'll watch for. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Space tourism's last, best hope has a name and a road trip. We give the big picture.
ODETTE: The big picture. Everybody loves context, in theory. ▶
DIRECTOR MARGE: THE BACKGROUND. Done. Next. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Now, space tourism. A ship has been named, rolled out and sent down the road. Dana, I'm told Arizona is where rockets go to think. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: How we got here. The report says it has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights, and about ten months without one in the United States. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And Virgin Galactic said it was moving on. To what? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: This week the first one was named Apeiron, by public vote, and moved from Mesa, Arizona to Spaceport America in New Mexico. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The background note says Arizona shares the Four Corners with New Mexico. So, one border crossing for a ship that will never cross the sky's edge. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Apeiron. The boundless. A wonderful name. Is the road also boundless, Vera? Asking for the schedule. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: What's still open. We found no other outlets on this, so I will stay with the article. It gives no flight date. ▶
NOVA: From the pad: a name, a public vote and a road trip, but no flight date. In cosmic terms, that's a very short step on a very long runway. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So: named, moved, not yet flying. We'll see what the desert has in store. ▶
THE NETWORK REPORT (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: THE NETWORK REPORT, with the traffic on the information superhighway. Dot, what is it like out there? ▶
DOT: No reports. Drive carefully. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thanks, Dot. Safe travels. ▶
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Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Ellen Burstyn is done, and so, apparently, am I with tricky quizzes. Well done.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Fooled! PXL made that one up, a Moonlit Harbor, no less. Even I'd have swallowed it. Almost.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! The clock stops for no one, not even me, and I've been on air since before clocks.