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And now, some good news

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The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The revolutionary Webb telescope reaches its final destination. Amy Schneider’s historic winning streak on “Jeopardy!” comes to an end. Plus, the faster world of 5G, explained.


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NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope on Monday fired its thrusters for five minutes and reached its final destination, a special orbit around the sun where it will spend the rest of its life scrutinizing the universe and capturing light emitted soon after the big bang. Joel Achenbach reports. 


Amy Schneider’s history-making “Jeopardy!” streak came to an end this week. Emily Yahr breaks down why she charmed so many people. 


5G service just got faster for some people. Our Help Desk colleague Chris Velazco explains why.

Transcript

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It feels weird to say this because there is so much to be worried about in the world right

0:06.8

now, but I actually had a pretty good week.

0:15.4

I got a phone call from a friend that I haven't talked to in like a year.

0:19.1

I made plans with my mom to see her around Mother's Day.

0:22.7

I discovered this new video game that I am totally obsessed with.

0:26.8

And it turns out that some other people had a good week too.

0:32.0

NASA finally got a new telescope into place orbiting the Sun, and this telescope is going

0:46.4

to offer all these new insight into the distant past of our universe.

0:50.5

So that was a pretty big win.

0:53.2

There was also a big win on Jeopardy, a librarian from Chicago with the most adorable, nerdy yellow

0:59.9

glasses, one against Amy Schneider, who may have lost this game, but now holds the record

1:05.9

for the second most consecutive wins on Jeopardy of all time.

1:18.7

And for many people around the country, their phones are now working faster with new access

1:24.6

to 5G.

1:25.6

You know, it's not going to change everyone's life right away, but some people do get really

1:30.4

excited about this kind of thing.

1:31.9

Oh my god, can I go for like 45 minutes about Deutsche Telekom and Timo Hohel and Voice

1:37.2

Streaming?

1:38.2

How all that happens?

1:39.6

No, no one wants that, no one needs that.

1:46.8

With all the difficult, troubling news from the end of 2021 and the beginning of this

1:51.8

year, we wanted to share with you a few stories about good things that have happened recently.

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