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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

TechCrunch

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial intelligence. She has held senior roles at General Dynamics and other defense contractors.

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

TechCrunch

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. They’re also becoming huge carbon hogs, consuming roughly 40% of all energy used on the planet.

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Digital twins are primed to revolutionize the infrastructure industry

CIO

For decades in the AEC industry, work has been performed on a project-by-project basis using computer-aided design (CAD) and more recently building information modeling (BIM) software to create specific 2D and 3D deliverables. We’ve seen an uptake in live digital twins in recent months,” says Martin Rapos, CEO of 3D BIM developer Akular. “In

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Here is some of the technology news we are tracking from across the tech community: Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015. NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. disconnect: Old laws vs. new technology. Technology and Inequality.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

CIO

Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. You can then move on to editing very quickly, looking for errors and confabulations.”

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. ” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. But technology for technology’s sake can lead us down some tricky paths. That’s one big task.).