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Protective face shields made with help of Prime Air drone engineers now for sale at cost on Amazon

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A protective face shield made by 3D printing enthusiasts in Washington state, with the help of Amazon Prime Air drone engineers, is now for sale on Amazon.com. Amazon says engineers from its drone team improved the initial design and made upgrades based on feedback from medical professionals. Amazon Photo). for a 25 pack ($2.65

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex. CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We

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Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies

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The 20 collaborative projects are part of a program managed by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The second project aims to improve rocket engine designs by incorporating metal-based additive manufacturing techniques. Elementum 3D of Erie, Colo., IN Space of West Lafayette, Ind., Orbital Sciences Corp.

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella. As Build moved on from Nadella’s opening remarks to Scott Hanselman, a partner program manager at Microsoft, the Easter eggs ramped up.

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

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New Frontier Aerospace’s chief operating officer, David Gregory (at left), lays his hand on the company’s Mjölnir rocket engine while CEO Bill Bruner strikes what he calls his “Wernher von Braun pose” with a 3D-printed model of the company’s hypersonic rocket ship. The company has been awarded $2.25

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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

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Startups in this year’s AWS Space Accelerator program include, from left, Lunasonde, which is developing a space-based radar sounding system; Raven Space Systems, which is building 3D-printed re-entry capsules; and Rogue Space Systems, which focuses of space robotic systems.