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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

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The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. Firehawk CEO Will Edwards (left) and chief scientist Ron Jones hold 3D-printed fuel tubes Image Credits: Firehawk Aerospace.

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Markforged acquires Digital Metal for $40M as 3D printing space continues to evolve

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Infusing Digital Metal’s solution into The Digital Forge platform allows us to address new applications in the medical, automotive, luxury goods and other industries,” said Shai Terem, president and CEO of Markforged. Among other things, Protolabs acquired 3D Hubs , Desktop Metal snagged EnvisionTEC and Lumentum spent $5.7

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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

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These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. Those plans got the green light into the form of new funding, including a $6.7 million Series A led by AM Ventures and a $2.9

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Five Flute annotates hardware product development into the current millennium

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If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. “Five Flute gives these teams the ability to collaborate seamlessly around engineering issues without ever leaving the native 3D design programs where they already work.”

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Fortify raises a $20M Series B for its composite manufacturing 3D printer

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Medical applications are understandably of interest lately, as is alternative manufacturing. Recent months have also found the company enlisting other 3D printing vets. Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

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Chat applications such as ChatGPT have made strong headway, as have image-generators such as DALL-E 3, capturing the imagination of businesses everywhere. Using Mesos, organizations can share resources more efficiently across multiple applications, and the tool is designed to scale with organizations as their resources grow.