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Why Valve’s Gabe Newell arranged to have a garden gnome launched into orbit

GeekWire

inches) tall and was 3D-printed from titanium by Weta Workshop , a special effects company in Miramar, New Zealand that has worked on the live-action Lord of the Rings movies. One is to test and qualify the 3D printing technique that was used to make Gnome, to see if it could be a viable method for making spacecraft components.

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Fictional plans for building a space station beyond the moon reflect Jeff Bezos’ vision

GeekWire

Yet another frontier has to do with robotic additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing. It so happens that Relativity Space is getting set to launch the world’s first 3D-printed rocket , while ventures including Bothell, Wash.-based based Tethers Unlimited are testing 3D printers and recyclers that are optimized for zero-G.

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Catalysts Dramatically Accelerate Innovation

TM Forum

A screenshot of a Zoom call, showing a 3D virtual newsroom. Year after year, TM Forum keeps refining the Catalyst programs with Showcases, Arena, Innovation Workshop, etc., This catalyst became the winner of “Industry influencer” and “Sustainability – innovation” in DTW 2021. Jun_Zhu_article_4.

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Valve’s Gabe Newell is sending a gnome to space

The Verge

This launch-ready version of the gnome is co-designed by special effects and prop house Weta Workshop and made from titanium. Rocket Lab hopes to use it “to test and qualify a novel 3D printing technique that could be employed for future spacecraft components”. The gnome inside Rocket Lab’s rocket.

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Fall 2018 Dutch Data Infrastructure Industry Trends Decision Making Seminars

Storage IO Blog

The workshops are being organized by Brouwer Storage Consultancy of Holland and will be […] The post Fall 2018 Dutch Data Infrastructure Industry Trends Decision Making Seminars appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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4 ways Swedish CIOs strengthen defenses against bombarding AI sales

CIO Business Intelligence

There are sales calls and workshops, and some book meetings right into the calendar. The company also lets AI make 3D models to follow a construction or streamline internal training. “We In addition to many things being casually called AI, the sales pressure has also considerably increased. It’s lots of phone calls,” says Svensson. “I

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A futurists’ dinner: the future of content and remote engagement

Trends in the Living Networks

We have all long been interested in tools such as Teleportec and other 3D, holographic or other ways to create and immersive and highly interactive experiences. One of the things I have begun to implement with some clients is online workshops. Ideally we could work with a major provider to showcase their technologies.

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