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Submission + - Carbon3D Reveals New 3D Printing Process 100X Faster than Current Technology

Submitted by ErnieKey on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:42PM

ErnieKey writes: Carbon3D, a stealth startup based in Redwood City, CA. has just announced a new breakthrough 3D printing technology called Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP). The process works by using oxygen as an inhibiting agent as a UV light rapidly cures a photosensitive resin. The company has just emerged from stealth mode and announced that they have raised a staggering $41 million to further develop the process and bring it to market.

Submission + - University of Illinois' Molecular 3D Printer Can Print Billions of Compounds

Submitted by ErnieKey on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:33AM

ErnieKey writes: University of Illinois Researchers have created what may end up being the future of 3D printing. The device, called a Molecular-Machine, basically manufactures on the compound level. Martin Burke, the lead researcher on this project says that they are already able to synthesize over a billion different compounds with the machine, compounds which up until now humans have not been able to synthesize. The impact on the pharmaceutical industry could be staggering.

Submission + - Track the beer consumption with beer tracking system (blogspot.in)

Submitted by usbeersaver on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:51AM

usbeersaver writes: We offers top level draft beer meter Worldwide. US BeerSAVER is cost effective and user friendly, we are providing the best beverage beer tracking control systems in the world, Our beer saver services are very popular in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong

Submission + - World's biggest aircraft gets closer to takeoff (mashable.com)

Submitted by euniceshiloh on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:56AM

euniceshiloh writes: The airship, built by British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) and originally funded by the U.S. government, is nearing its first takeoff after the UK provided financing to complete the project. The first test flights are set for later this year.

Submission + - Huge ocean confirmed underneath solar system's largest moon (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:45PM

sciencehabit writes: The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth, according to new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. Ganymede now joins Jupiter’s Europa and two moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, as moons with subsurface oceans—and good places to look for life. Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may also have a subsurface ocean. The Hubble study suggests that the ocean can be no deeper than 330 kilometers below the surface.

Submission + - Man 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission for Toyota Engines (3dprint.com) 1

Submitted by ErnieKey on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:04AM

ErnieKey writes: A man, named Eric Harrell has reverse engineered a 5-speed transmission for a Toyota 22RE Engine, and 3D printed an entire working replica on his desktop 3D printer. Even though it is made up almost entirely of plastic, he says that it could function as a replacement for the real thing. In all it took about 48 hours of print time, plus many more in order to assemble the device. He has made the files available for anyone to download and print themselves for free.

Submission + - Unique 3D Printed 2-String Violin May Revolutionize the Music Industry (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:47AM

ErnieKey writes: This April, MONAD Studio will unleash 5 new musical instruments which have been 3D printed. They look unlike anything you have seen before, and when combined together will create a massive musical spectacle that could revolutionize the music industry. Created by Eric Goldemberg of FIU, the installment will be on display at the 3D Print Design Show in NY. There are already many musicians lining up to try out these new instruments.

Submission + - The weight of a butterfly: A beautiful essay about work on the Bomb (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by Lasrick on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:57PM

Lasrick writes: Emily Strasser with a lovely essay as she grapples with trying to better understand her long deceased grandfather, a chemist who help build the first atomic bomb. Strasser illuminates the lives of the 75k people who came to live in Oak Ridge to work at the Y-12 enrichment facility, most of whom didn't know what they were working on as they went about their lives in a government-built city that wasn't to be plotted on any map. Her description of what they were doing there is both scientific and beautiful: 'The uranium in the Hiroshima bomb was about 80 percent uranium 235. One metric ton of natural uranium typically contains only 7 kilograms of uranium 235. Of the 64 kilograms of uranium in the bomb, less than one kilogram underwent fission, and the entire energy of the explosion came from just over half a gram of matter that was converted to energy. That is about the weight of a butterfly.'

Submission + - Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping

Submitted by wombatmobile on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:42PM

wombatmobile writes: For more than 5,000 years, apiarists donned protective suits and lit bundles of grass to subdue swarms of angry bees while they robbed their hives of precious, golden honey. Now two Australian inventors have made harvesting honey as easy as turning a tap — literally. Cedar Anderson and his father Stuart have just been rewarded for a decades worth of inventing and refining with a $2 million overnight success on Indiegogo. Their Flow Hive coopts bees to produce honey in plastic cells that can be drained and restored by turning a handle, leaving the bees in situ and freeing apiarists from hours of smoke filled danger time every day.

Submission + - 5 white collar jobs robots already have taken (fortune.com)

Submitted by bizwriter on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @11:39AM

bizwriter writes: University of Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne estimated in 2013 that 47 percent of total U.S. jobs could be automated and taken over by computers by 2033. That now includes occupations once thought safe from automation, AI, and robotics. Such positions as journalists, lawyers, doctors, marketers, and financial analysts are already being invaded by our robot overlords.

Submission + - Amazon Files Patent for Mobile 3D Printing Delivery Trucks (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:34AM

ErnieKey writes: Amazon has been inching their way into the 3D printing space over the past 10 months or so. This week, however, the US Patent office published a filing by Amazon for mobile 3D printing delivery trucks. The trucks would have 3D printers and CNC machines on board and be able to communicate with a central hub. When a product is ordered, the mobile 3D printing truck that's closest to the consumer's home or office would then get the order, print it and deliver it ASAP.

Submission + - Men unhappy to be circumcised might be able to regenerate their foreskin

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @02:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot has covered advances in regenerative medicine for various body parts, but not the most personal one of them all. It seems that there are enough men who are unhappy about being circumcised that a company, appropriately named Foregen, has been founded with the aim to regrow foreskins.

Submission + - Government, military and private sector fighting over next-gen cyber-warriors (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @01:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: On the 10th of February both the US Army and Britain's intelligence agency GCHQ launched new initiatives to address their severe shortfalls in cyber-security specialists. The United States Army Reserve launched the 'cyber private public partnership' (Cyber P3) on Capitol Hill, which will give reservists the opportunity to train as cyber-warriors in six US universities, in partnership with 11 employers. In the UK GCHQ announced an 'Insiders Summer School', where first and second-year computer science undergraduates will be paid to attend a ten week intensive cyber-training course, culminating in a live display of their online and hacking acumen. The Government Accountability Office estimates a shortfall of 40,000 cyber security operatives, and with multiple branches of government in several western countries fighting each other (and the private sector, and the criminal arena) for the patronage of computer science students, cyber-security is looking to be the safest career path an undergraduate could pursue.

Submission + - One year of data proves the Hacker community is tight-knit and welcoming. (hackaday.com)

Submitted by szczys on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:24PM

szczys writes: The Hacker (sometimes called maker) movement holds sharing of ideas at its core. We are in the unique position to look at a huge data set from the last 365 day showing how people share their own work, and how they discover and interact with others. Check out these data visualizations which cover project topic distribution, views throughout year and by hour in the day, interactions between members of this community, and more.

Submission + - US Military Soon Able to Copy & 3D Print Exact Replicas of Bones & Limbs (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey on Sunday February 15, 2015 @10:11AM

ErnieKey writes: The US military is working with technology that will allow them to create exact virtual replicas of their soldiers. Then in case of an injury, these replicas, which are created using x-rays, MRI and Ultrasound technology, will be able to be restored for surgeons to 3D print both exact medical models for rebuilding the injured patient's body and even 3D print exact replica implants. Could we all one day soon have virtual backups of ourselves that we can access and have new body parts 3D printed on demand? It appears as though we are getting closer.

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