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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope

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At yet when it is home to many of your company’s assets, as is the case for ConocoPhillips, sometimes the best IT strategy is to bring technologies closer to the edge. Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.” And the new plugs [produced via 3D printing] perform just as well, if not better,” says De Bernardi.

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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. The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way.

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Massachusetts startup OPT Industries is perfecting a 3D-printed nasal swab for COVID-19 tests

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One small company that stepped into the fray of swab production was the two-year-old OPT Industries, a Massachusetts-based company with 15 employees involved in additive manufacturing (think 3D printing) of dense microfiber structures. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

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Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

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Experiencing first-hand the skill and dedication of the people I worked with, I have no doubt AVs (like Olli) are the future of transportation.” “As with most adventures, they must come to an end,” wrote Jeff Hollowell, former VP of information technology at Local Motors. “Local Motors has closed its doors.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

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Curators and IT experts who designed the digital replica continue to enhance the platform with technologies that make it not only more widely accessible but also replete with fresh, robust content. Fearless designers also employed unique technologies to ensure viewers have a speedy, rich experience regardless of the device they use.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

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Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. You can then move on to editing very quickly, looking for errors and confabulations.”