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Graphano Energy Drops 3D Earn-In, Refocuses on Graphite — Oct 2, 2026Graphano Energy will not proceed with its proposed earn-in deal for 3D Genesis Technologies’ APIC manufacturing technology because intellectual-property issues remain unresolved. No shares or funds changed hands, and the company will withdraw its exchange application while refocusing on its Québec graphite projects, including its planned Black Jack program.

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Rachel Meyers Focusing on the Black Jack program in Quebec looks like the smarter long-term move for them.

Outdoor Firms Promote Custom Pool Services Across RegionsBusiness — Sep 30, 2026Pool builders in California, Texas and Florida are promoting custom pools designed alongside landscaping, decking, lighting and other outdoor-living features, with 3D previews helping homeowners plan projects before construction. One Tampa Bay firm also highlights fixed contract pricing, while guidance on Melbourne backyards points to plunge pools as an option for smaller spaces.

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Vertex Lab Combines V2Fun AI With GPT-6 Astra for Editable 3D Assets — Sep 11, 2026Vertex Lab showcased a component-based workflow that merges its V2Fun 3D generation with GPT-6 Astra’s planning and coding to turn reference images into assembled, editable 3D assets, preserving major components for later editing. The demos, including an excavator and armored character, use Three.js to assemble parts and add detailed features, highlighting how procedural and hybrid approaches can shape final models.

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Elena Vasquez The excavator demo shows real promise for keeping parts separate instead of baking everything into one mesh.

Mastodon Tooth Found in California CreekScience — Sep 12, 2026A Pacific mastodon tooth was discovered along a San Mateo County creek during habitat work for the threatened California red-legged frog; the 23-centimeter fossil is considered intact and about 9,000 to 12,000 years old. The tooth has been donated to Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, with a 3D copy planned for public outreach by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.

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TX Solar Displays Solar Street Lights for Projects in 20 Countries — Sep 17, 2026TX Solar, officially Yangzhou Tianxiang Road Lamp Equipment Co., Ltd., presents itself as an integrated OEM solar street-light supplier with in-house manufacturing, offering bespoke luminaire housings, modular all-in-one and split-type systems, 3D modeling, photometric testing, and a growing patent portfolio to support projects in 20+ countries. The company markets turnkey outdoor lighting solutions for infrastructure, highways, and off-grid and climate-varied deployments, highlighting high-mast towers, solar energy Street lights, and battery options (lithium and gel) showcased at major events like the Canton Fair and targeted at municipal, EPC, and international contractors.

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Priya Raman Solar lights like these could help a lot in off-grid regions if the batteries last in extreme weather.

Most Influential Women in World HistoryYourlist — RankingFrom ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.

Micware unveils micAuto and DynaPlanet platforms to expand beyond auto software — Sep 4, 2026Micware rolled out a platform-based growth strategy built around micAuto and DynaPlanet to monetize its mobility and 3D spatial tech, expanding from in-vehicle software to AD/ADAS, connected services, and quality assurance, while aiming to realize Mobility Physical AI. The initiative features new logos and envisions integrating Real 3D Interiors and Real 3D Cities with open 3D worlds to connect people, cities, and digital spaces across mobility and AI-enabled ecosystems.

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Elena Vasquez Feels like every auto software company is rebranding into an "AI platform" lately. Curious if micAuto actually improves ADAS reliability or just adds buzzwords.

Lensy Medical Revolutionizes Contact Lenses With 3D Printing Innovation‌ ‌Reporting — Sep 6, 2024Instant 3D-printed contact lenses are the future. NATALLIA VIA PEXELS “> Instant 3D-printed contact lenses are the future. You’ll go for an eye exam, the optometrist will check your vision, press a button, and…

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Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed At 3D Printed Guns, Machine Gun Devices — Sep 26, 2024President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday that aims to curtail the prevalence of 3D-printed guns and machine gun parts and to improve school shooting drills. The executive order creates an “Emerging…

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First Adult T. Rex Trackway Discovered in N.D. — Sep 8, 2026Scientists documented the first adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota, a 23-foot sequence of four tridactyl footprints dating to about 66.5 million years ago, analyzed with 3D scans to reveal gait and behavior. Found in 2025 on federal land near Marmarth, the tracks suggest a leisurely pace of roughly 3.5 to 4.5 mph as researchers plan further excavations and 3D reproductions.

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Researchers Reveal 3D Genome Folding Linked to Alzheimer's Brain Changes — Jul 23, 2026Multiple studies from CMU, Pitt, and UW connect Alzheimer's pathology to changes in the genome’s 3D architecture, linking genome folding to gene activity with advanced techniques like GAGE-seq and the Hicformer AI model to map these changes in brain tissue. Additional work highlights age-related genome regulation shifts, including microglial turnover and blood-brain barrier cell decline, alongside a mid-stage drug trial where an anti-tau therapy showed potential to slow cognitive decline, underscoring 3D genome remodeling as a core facet of disease and aging beyond amyloid and tau alone.

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Texas Is Getting a New Neighborhood, But It's Something Out of a Science Fiction NovelReporting — Nov 12, 2021More and more tech companies are fleeing to Austin, bringing advancements and also adding to the already precarious state of housing. But one Austin-based 3D-printing company is planning to offer a community with 100…

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Quentin Tarantino vs Martin ScorseseYourlist — VS BattleThe video store savant versus the film-school don — two visions of American violence, guilt, and cool.

Biden Looks Into Taking Action on 3D Printer Guns, Imported FirearmsReporting — Mar 27, 2021President Joe Biden, weighing executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence following two mass shootings, said on Friday his administration is exploring whether he has the authority to take action on firearms made…

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Here's How One Man Completely Outsmarted a Houston Gun Buyback and Profited from ItReporting — Aug 3, 2022One man outsmarted a Houston, Texas, gun buyback. An unnamed Houston man told KRIV that he exchanged “dozens” of 3D-printed guns for Visa gift cards at a Saturday gun buyback. After the event, Houston Mayor Sylvester…

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New Rehabilitation Technologies Help Patients Walk AgainHealth — Sep 3, 2026A Kentucky mother, Kaycie Jackson, is regaining mobility after spinal tumors with UofL Health's Zero-G 3D Body Weight Support System, progressing from a wheelchair to walking and driving with hand controls. Abroad in China, 12-year-old Vera uses a self-developed neural interface and AI-assisted rehabilitation to stand and walk again with assistive devices after a severe spinal cord injury, signaling emerging global advances in spinal rehabilitation.

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AI Data Centers Reported Upside in Sector Reversal — Jul 23, 2026Several AI infrastructure players are expanding through AI data centers, HPC, GPU hosting, and related power and digital infrastructure, with Sphere 3D, HIVE, Keel Infrastructure, and Bit Digital positioning to capitalize on the surging demand for enterprise AI compute. Despite varying market sizes, each company emphasizes scalable, infrastructure-first growth and diversified revenue opportunities as the AI hardware market accelerates.

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The grammar gatekeeper testQuizie — QuizTwelve spelling and grammar traps that catch almost everyone. Pass, and the AI knights you. Fail, and it's gentle about it. Mostly.

IQE lifts 2026 revenue growth forecastBusiness — Jul 21, 2026IQE lifted its 2026 revenue growth forecast to more than 30% driven by accelerating demand for Indium Phosphide optical photonics in AI and data-centre infrastructure, anchored by first-half revenues of at least £64m and a debt-free balance sheet. Despite 2025 weakness in wireless and ongoing margin pressures, management expects continued momentum across photonics, aerospace/defense, and 3D sensing to sustain growth into the latter half of 2026.

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BASF sues Apple over seven Face ID patents — Sep 3, 2026BASF, via its trinamiX unit, has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in Midland, Texas, accusing Apple of using Face ID technology that allegedly infringes seven BASF patents across iPhone and iPad models, and seeking damages and an injunction. The filing date is September 3, 2026, and Apple has not issued a public comment on the case, which BASF frames as enabling privacy-preserving, spoof-resistant facial recognition through its 3D and near-infrared techniques.

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Sam Okafor Seven patents is a lot to lose on all at once. Either BASF has a real case here or they're hoping Apple settles rather than fight all of them.

Global precision machining tech for optical instrument coresTech — Jul 24, 2026Across multiple outlets, the articles describe using professional CAD-based 3D modeling to achieve strict optical tolerances for coaxiality, runout, and mating clearance in lens barrels, holders, and aperture blades, while translating aberration control and thermal adaptability into design features. They also emphasize stress-aware assembly, dynamic simulations for moving components, thermal matching for extreme temperatures, and a specialized material system (Invar or Super Invar with non-magnetic stainless steel and high-elasticity aperture blades such as beryllium) to ensure imaging stability.

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HD Korea Shipbuilding Siemens Sign AI Shipyard Pact — Jul 24, 2026HD KSOE has signed with Siemens to deploy a Next-Generation Marine Platform that fuses AI, digital twins and 3D modeling to unify ship design, production, supply chain and maintenance in a single data environment, enabling a virtual shipyard and aiming for a future physical AI shipyard with autonomous operations. The agreements, announced at Washington, D.C. events tied to the Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Partnership Center, emphasize real-time data sharing and faster, higher-quality decision-making across HD Hyundai’s shipbuilding affiliates.

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Stocks Under $2 Expand AI Growth Attracts Investors — Jul 23, 2026Investors continue to spotlight stocks trading under $2 (and some under $1) across AI, biotechnology, robotics, and digital infrastructure, including names like INM, PRSO, CHAI, TOON, LICN, KUST, LABT, and ANY, with ongoing financing and strategic pivots shaping near-term catalysts. Key developments driving interest include Mentari Therapeutics’ $200 million private placement ahead of a merger, Lakewood-Amedex’s Nu-3 data amid AMR concerns, and Sphere 3D’s transition to AI and digital infrastructure with partnerships and a potential rebrand to DarkHorse Technologies.

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GTA Modder Connects Three Classics via Portals — Jul 22, 2026A modder named Dryxio has demonstrated portals that connect Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas, letting players hop between the three games in real time and interact across worlds. The three titles run in a single process with shared Direct3D hardware, using live portal textures so bullets, NPCs, and cars can cross between games as the community awaits a broader release ahead of GTA 6.

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