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GE will make taller wind turbines using 3D-printing

The Verge

GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. But building bigger turbines makes transporting the pieces needed to put it together a logistical nightmare. But it won’t be the first company to look into 3D-printing for wind energy. GE Energy 1.5

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Relativity Space announces $650 million in funding to build a bigger 3D-printed rocket

GeekWire

Relativity Space , the space venture that got its start in Seattle and is now working on 3D-printed rockets in California, says it’ll build a bigger launch vehicle with the aid of a similarly huge $650 million Series E funding round. An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran R rocket in flight.

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Xbox game The Vale transports you to a medieval world through sound

The Verge

The game was developed in collaboration with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and made for and tested by blind and low-vision players. The gameplay relies on 3D audio, so headphones are required. . | Image: Falling Squirrel.

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Geek of the Week: Artist Chanee Choi’s 3D video game ‘Pandemic’ looks at racism during COVID-19

GeekWire

Her latest project is a first-person 3D video game in which the player is the coronavirus, moving through a virtual environment. Making the 3D design process and game programming calls on the same skills as traditional crafts. Transporter, Time Machine or Cloak of Invisibility? Transporter. Chanee Choi. Windows and Mac.

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

GeekWire

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. GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) TUKWILA, Wash.

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Digital twins are primed to revolutionize the infrastructure industry

CIO Business Intelligence

Keith Bentley of software developer Bentley Systems describes digital twins as the biggest opportunity for IT value contribution to the physical infrastructure industry since the personal computer, and they’re used in a wide variety of industries , lending enterprises insights into maintenance and ways to optimize manufacturing supply chains.

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Geek of the Week: Zipwhip?s teen developer Avery Wagar generates buzz with his work on coffee robot

GeekWire

Avery Wagar of Zipwhip with the Textspresso IV robotic coffee machine that he helped develop for the company’s Seattle office. He’s the teenage software developer who helped build a text-enabled coffee robot that will get you a coffee. Transporter, Time Machine or Cloak of Invisibility? Zipwhip photo).