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GE will make taller wind turbines using 3D-printing

The Verge

GE Energy 1.5 GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. GE hopes to 3D print the base of a turbine wherever they want to place it, so that they won’t need to haul around such a gigantic hunk of concrete or steel. GE Renewable Energy/Cobod/LafargeHolcim.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

“Aside from being extremely cold, working on the Slope presents major supply chain challenges,” says Pragati Mathur, chief digital and information officer for the energy exploration and production stalwart. Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.”

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KFC is working with a Russian 3D bioprinting firm to try to make lab-produced chicken nuggets

The Verge

The chicken restaurant chain will work with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to develop bioprinting technology that will “print” chicken meat, using chicken cells and plant material. 3D bioprinting is a slow, laborious process. 3D bioprinting is a slow, laborious process.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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IDG Contributor Network: 3D printers hackable via smartphone

Network World

A smartphone’s built-in sensors can be used to swipe important intellectual property, such as product models and prototypes, by reading a combination of acoustic traces and electromagnetic energy as a 3D printer’s print head moves across a platen.

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Q.rad uses servers to warm homes and offices instead of wasting energy to cool data centers

Tech Republic Data Center

The French startup has created energy-saving distributed servers to power compute-intensive industries such as finance, research, and 3D animation.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

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). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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