If you’ve been waiting nearly a decade for American astronauts to launch on American soil from an American rocket, today is your day. At 3:22 EDT, NASA and SpaceX will launch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on a Falcon 9 rocket. The Demo-2 mission is the first time NASA will launch a commercially built spacecraft. Up until the launch, they are providing a mix of live and pre-recorded insight and interviews on the mission, the astronauts, and more. Crew Dragon Has Launched! The Dragon crew succeesfully launched My 30th at 3:22 PM EDT. See the full video leading up to and after the…

Outside the worn iron gate, a north wind blew at their backs as they approached. All five, scarred from battle, hardened by storm, returned with the largest cache of dried licorice root the village had ever seen, extracted, they came to learn later, from the stringy cheek meats of these links. Ryan Gitter – A wide range of art and influence in concept art that introduces you to characters in strange and beautiful lands, leaving a desire to explore. Binhai Science Museum – An architectural gem completed last year in Binhai, China as photographed by Kris Provoost. Simpsons IRL – Well, almost real-life. Hossein Diba’s life-like, slightly creepy, interpretation of…

We all know how Google Search works: type in something you want to know and Google magically collates everything about it on the Internet in less than a second. But did you know Google Search has an option to easily view 3D content? By clicking the “View in 3D” button at the bottom part portion of any compatible link, you can view assets in 3D. You can then rotate, push, and pull the object to look at it from all angles. It saves you time and effort as you don’t have to open a dozen links on different tabs to find the 3D content you are searching for. This is…

The idea of parallel 3D printing is incredibly powerful. The rap against 3D printers has long been that they are monumentally slower than traditional manufacturing equipment to produce finished units, even though they are able to make objects of any design on the next print job. This slowness has sometimes been the reason for not considering 3D printing as a manufacturing option, along with the unavailability of desired materials. However, in recent years the breadth of material selection has widened considerably, and now includes many popular engineering materials. It’s now possible to make many types of end-use parts on 3D printers, but they are still slow. But that constraint can…

If you’re not familiar with the new Quadro RTX line, here’s what you need to know. The new RTX cards use the next generation of GPUs based on the Turing architecture with features that come together on the NVIDIA RTX platform. Turing adds many important features over previous architecture, the primary of which is the new Tensor cores that add deep learning AI capabilities and the RT cores for real-time ray tracing acceleration. The RTX platform provides various RTX APIs for developers which allow them to build RTX applications that take advantage of the RTX Turing architecture and allows you to take advantage of those RTX features in applications that…

Months ago, when the thought of a pandemic was just a whisper and inkling in our minds, a press release or blog post announcing a 3D printed glove remover might not have ever caught our attention. In fact, some might think among all the novel inventions a glove remover ranks pretty low on the invention scale. Not so anymore! COVID-19 and all the dangers it brings have changed up the game. Not only frontline workers but the masses are becoming health conscious and are constantly making sure they are protected. And what better place than to start with clean hands! To help keep frontline workers like doctors, nurses, and cooks…