Welcome to the Future of Construction: 3-D Printing
A company printed 10 small buildings in Shanghai in just one day; Ron Paul explains his thoughts on Bitcoin; meanwhile, the Supreme Court is pondering whether cops require warrants to look through cellphones. These discoveries and more after the jump.
A company printed 10 small buildings in Shanghai in just one day; Ron Paul explains his thoughts on Bitcoin; meanwhile, the Supreme Court is pondering whether cops require warrants to look through cellphones. These discoveries and more below.
On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that have found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies.
A Chinese Company Managed to 3D-Print 10 Buildings in One Day Recently in Shanghai, a Chinese company 3D-printed 10 small buildings in about a day.
On Cliven Bundy’s ‘Ancestral Rights’ If the Nevada rancher is forced to pay taxes or grazing fees, he should pay them to the Shoshone.
Federal Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Wisconsin Voter ID Law Two decisions taken this week were striking affirmations of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent last week, in a Michigan affirmative action case, that “race matters.”
The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back Can a budding labor movement improve the lives of non-tenured faculty—and, in the process, fix higher education?
Why Does Ron Paul Think Bitcoin Does Not Fit the Definition of Money? Bitcoin is a very interesting subject because for many years in Congress Ron Paul was a champion of legalizing competition in currencies.
The Wedding-Industrial Complex Ten years ago, when the reality show “Bridezillas” stormed onto cable television—all tulle and tirades and tailored, four-figure gowns—a kind of counter-pop-cultural way of thinking came along with it, centered on knee-jerk disdain
Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy Four decades of neoliberal policies have resulted in an economic Darwinism that promotes privatization, commodification, free trade, and deregulation.
Supreme Court Taking Up Police Searches of Data Troves Known as Cellphones In a major test of how to interpret the Fourth Amendment in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Tuesday considered two cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of the people they arrest.
‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby Belinda Padilla does not pick up unknown calls anymore, not since someone posted her cellphone number on an online forum for gun enthusiasts.
Despite Twitter Backlash, New York Police Dept. Plans to Expand Social Media Efforts For the first few months of his second tour as commissioner of the New York Police Department, William J. Bratton has been consumed in large part with reshaping perceptions of officers.
Your support matters…Independent journalism is under threat and overshadowed by heavily funded mainstream media.
You can help level the playing field. Become a member.
Your tax-deductible contribution keeps us digging beneath the headlines to give you thought-provoking, investigative reporting and analysis that unearths what's really happening- without compromise.
Give today to support our courageous, independent journalists.
An expert attempts to debunk common myths about mass shootings, starting with the bonkers idea that more guns make people safer; scientists are working to condense multiple medications into "personalized" pills; and since late 2015, more Americans have been employed by online-only outlets than by newspapers. These discoveries and more after the jump.
We've seen 3-D printers used to forge the worst kind of items (guns, for one) but now the devices are being employed to make cooking quick and painless. The Foodini, a new machine created by a startup in Barcelona, Spain, may revolutionize the way we prepare and eat food, and it's barely in the prototype stages.
The new technology is clearly in the wrong, trigger-happy hands. Now that the first metal gun has been created using a 3-D printer and it can fire 50 rounds, there's no question firearm printing will get only more and more advanced. And it's not something to take lightly.
It's unclear whether the North Korean dictator had singer Hyon Song-wol killed by a firing squad, or whether he ever dated her, but it wouldn't be out of character for the regime; business and journalism are becoming increasingly intertwined; meanwhile, to prevent piracy, a startup has begun to stream 3-D print designs that can be used only once. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Guns produced using 3-D printers have found an opponent in state Sen. Leland Yee, who plans to introduce legislation that would ban in California the use of the do-it-yourself technology to create firearms.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.