COPY THAT: 3-D printing technology could ignite manufacturing revolution for the masses

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A Connecticut firm has been given the first-in-the-nation approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for medical and implant parts produced from high performance polymers using a 3-D printing process. The OsteoFab medical device, created using an additive manufacturing process, has enabled an unidentified man to have 75% of his skull replaced using a [...]

BURY ME ON MARS: Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, praised as modern-day Henry Ford of space travel

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The entrepreneur of a private company developing reusable rockets to revolutionize space travel said on Saturday it would be a huge disappointment if mankind didn’t make it to Mars in his lifetime; he even volunteered to be one of the the first humans to make the trip — and die there. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of [...]

VIRTUAL AFTERLIFE: Companies test market “tweeting” & “poking” from the grave to soften death’s impact

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For many people, estate planning is an uncomfortable and often neglected process. A survey published last year revealed that an amazing 71% of adults under the age of 34 don’t have wills, and 41% of those considered Baby Boomers — aged 55-64 — don’t either. “The death of a loved one can wreak emotional havoc [...]

FIRE IN THE SKY: Meteor slams Earth, on eve of Asteroid DA14 flyby, injuring nearly 1,000 Russians

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As NASA scientists and the world prepared for a “close, but safe” flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14, the heavens awoke with an early surprise over the skies of Russia this morning as what appeared to be a fast-moving meteor slammed into buildings and other structures. The destruction caused by the explosive [...]

PODCAST #3: ‘T-Ray’ scans The Big Apple as police test terahertz body scanner amid privacy concerns

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Listen to the Big 3 News Podcast player above to hear the podcast or click here to download the complete podcast file to your computer or mobile device. The New York City Police Department (NYPD)  may soon have a new high-tech crime-fighting tool in its arsenal — the result of a funding partnership with the [...]

Cyberwar: How global terrorists, and the patriot hackers fighting them, are using the Internet

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The Internet has empowered individuals — more accurately, THE individual — in a way that no other communication tool has done in the past. An amateur filmmaker posts a video to YouTube and within hours or days it goes “viral”, angering millions of people around the world and prompting a diplomatic repudiation from the U.S. [...]