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3D Systems announced a deal with Hershey’s Thursday to collaborate on developing a 3-D printer that makes chocolate and other edible products. In a statement, 3D Systems said making printers that print chocolate is a good way to help the relatively new technology go mainstream. Hershey sees it
There’s a housing crisis going on around the globe. Populations are on the rise and city centers just can’t meet the ever-growing demand. By 2050, the United Nations projects that there will be 9.2 billion humans on Earth. We’re gonna need to house those 2.2 billion new residents,
The Internet has created a world where value is determined by virality. BitTorrent is contributing to the evolution of how content gets shared. The creator of file-sharing technology revealed today that people have downloaded BitTorrent Bundles 60 million times in less than a year, and nearly 164,40
In San Francisco, where Uber and Lyft got their starts, resistance to these services seems futile. While taxi drivers may be striking against the “unfair competition” in Paris, one-third of cabbies in San Francisco have ditched their registered cabs. These drivers are now working for Uber, Lyft, or
The all-new 2015 ATS Coupe will be one of the first Cadillac models equipped with new OnStar 4G LTE – a faster and more reliable connection for in-vehicle applications, plus a new built-in Wi-Fi hot spot that can connect up to seven devices at once. With OnStar’s 4G LTE connection, the ATS Coupe bec
The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, released today, reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have reached startling levels. According to the report, a worldwide shortage of nearly a million skilled security professionals
Linko, a mobile enterprise startup operating out of Berlin, San Francisco and Helsinki, has just picked up two rather useful things: $2.6 million in seed funding, and another Berlin-based startup called Localstream. Both should help Linko flesh out its customer relationship management (CRM) product,
Not all soldiers are crack shots, but the U.S. military is reportedly hoping to make that happen, with a little help from “smart” rifles, that is. According to a startup called TrackingPoint, the military bought six of its precision-guided firearms that can cost between $10,000 to $27,00
A tweet by Coffee Stain Studios’ Armin Ibrisagic has revealed that Valve will be introducing support for a further 12 currencies for Steam this year. The lucky countries include Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Mexico, Phillipines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand an
Adobe is adding new tools to Photoshop that let users create and edit designs for 3D printing. Before 3D printers crank out objects, a user needs digital model, either one they create or download from the Internet. One you’ve got one, though, you’ll need software that supports 3D imagery
After tendering $14 million in a new round of financing, investors are hoping that e-reading startup Oyster will harvest a pearl. The company, which launched out of New York last fall, employs a business model similar to Netflix, offering customers unlimited access to over 100,000 e-books for a mont
Starting on Tuesday, the million or so third-party applications that use Twitter data must start encrypting all of their communications with the Twitter API, in order to improve security and maintain data integrity. In a short message posted on its service, Twitter announced that, as of Jan. 14, all
