Stratasys, a leading provider of 3D printing solutions, has received CE Mark Class I approval for its TrueDent-D resin, enabling the sale of its monolithic multi-shade digital denture solution across Europe. Following its successful U.S. launch in 2023, this milestone allows the company to bring a scalable and efficient solution to European dental labs, dentists, and patients. European dental labs face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality dentures while reducing production time and costs. According to an iData report, the European market for dentures is expected to grow from USD 2.19 billion in 2023 to USD 2.45 billion by 2028. Stratasys TrueDent system utilizes a fully digital workflow that allows labs to produce more than 30 full monolithic, multi-shade dentures per print job using a single Stratasys J5 DentaJet printer. This approach significantly cuts production costsby more than half compared to traditional methodswhile shortening turnaround times and reducing the need for manual assembly by skilled craftspeople.Multiple dentures printed in a single batch using the Stratasys J5 DentaJet. Photo via Stratasys.Erez Ben Zvi, Vice President of Healthcare at Stratasys, stated, We are thrilled to bring TrueDent-D to Europe. Our monolithic TrueDent denture solution combines high fidelity, aesthetics, and production scalability, while reducing labor costs and enabling exact reproductions. The expansion of TrueDent-D suggests a continued evolution in digital denture manufacturing, promising improved efficiency, consistency, and patient care standards.TrueDents ability to print duplicate dentures quickly addresses challenges like labor shortages and the limitations of manual fabrication. The TrueDent solution has transformed our denture business, said Tra Chambers, owner of Express Dental Laboratories in the United States. The streamlined digital workflow and precision allows us to produce up to 225 dental appliances per day while delivering high fidelity, highly aesthetic appliances to our customers. Stratasys approach minimizes over 27 manual touchpoints in the production process, reducing errors and shortening chair time. For more information about the TrueDent digital denture application, visit the Stratasys TrueDent page, register for a meeting or visit the Stratasys booth at IDS 2025 on Hall 3.1 Stand K-059.A fully finished denture created using the Stratasys TrueDent system. Photo via Stratasys.3D Printing Innovations in Digital DentistryIn related industry news, US-based 3D Systems received FDA 510(k) clearance for its multi-material, jetted 3D printed denture solution. This technology integrates NextDent Jet Denture Teeth and NextDent Jet Denture Base materials into a single monolithic denture using MultiJet Printing. By focusing on break resistance, aesthetics, and high-volume production, this solution emphasizes automation and efficiency in denture manufacturing.Another significant development came last year when Formlabs Dental secured FDA 510(k) clearance for its Premium Teeth Resin. This nano-ceramic-filled resin material allows for 3D printing of temporary crowns, inlays, onlays, veneers, and up to seven-unit temporary bridges. Compatible with various Formlabs 3D printers, the resin is noted for its realistic aesthetics, high accuracy, and streamlined workflow.Dental component 3D printed using Formlab Dentals Premium Teeth Resin. Photo via Formlabs.Ready to discover who won the 20243D Printing Industry Awards?What will the future of 3D printing look like?Which recent trends are driving the 3D printing industry, as highlighted by experts?Subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry newsletter to stay updated with the latest news and insights.Stay connected with the latest in 3D printing by following us on Twitter and Facebook, and dont forget to subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry YouTube channel for more exclusive content.Featured image shows multiple dentures printed in a single batch using the Stratasys J5 DentaJet. Photo via Stratasys.

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This impressive commercial block is prominently sited atthe corner of Beach and South streetsin BostonsLeather District, a wonderful enclave of late 19th and early 20th century mercantile buildings, historically centered around the leather and shoe-making industries. Like many in this block, the building was developed by the Faxon Brothers, some of the major developers of this district and areas of Quincy. Also like many other buildings in the Leather District, the block was designed by 1886 in the Romanesque Revival style, constructed of brick and brownstone with a clipped corner and Syrian arches and an oculus window at the fifth floor. The building was designed by relatively unknown architect,John H. Besarickand today houses professional offices.

Tommy Lee Walker - stock.adobe.cNewsTelehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres doDespite the governments efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the countrys future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they doByCaroline Donnelly,Datacentre Editor Published: 20 Jan 2025 12:45 Despite the government repeatedly hyping up the importance of the datacentre market to the UK economy, research shows the general public remains largely unaware of the important role server farms play in their everyday lives.A poll of 2,000 UK consumers by colocation company Telehouse, geared towards uncovering how much awareness there is of datacentres in the general population, revealed that more than half of respondents (51%) had never heard of the term.When questioned further, 67% of respondents said they did not know what a datacentre was, nor what it did, which Telehouse said highlights a significant lack of awareness about their critical role in powering daily digital life.While 48% of respondents believe datacentres positively impact the digital services they use at home and work, such as video streaming and online shopping, there remains a substantial knowledge gap about the scale and scope of datacentre operations, the company said.To reiterate this further, the company said its research also showed that nearly half of respondents (43%) had no idea about the number of people, applications and data supported by datacentres in the UK.The lack of public appreciation for datacentres may be traced back to the fact that operators have previously gone to great lengths to keep the location of their sites under wraps for security purposes with this veil of secrecy affording clients data an extra level of protection.The fact the sector operates largely under the radar has been cited as a reason why operators have struggled to fill roles and replace workers who have reached retirement age. It has also previously been flagged as a factor in why the industry has sometimes struggled to get its needs and wants catered for during government policy and regulatory changes.Read more about datacentresThe UK government has unveiled its 50-point AI action plan, which commits to building sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities and accelerating AI datacentre developments - but questions remain about the viability of the plansLabour government has wasted no time in lowering planning permission barriers to new datacentre builds, with its disclosure that two previously denied projects are being placed under review.The latter situation has progressively improved over the course of the past five years or so, with datacentre employees acknowledged as key workers by the government during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.Since coming to power in July 2024, the Labour government has also taken steps to elevate the status of the datacentre market further by committing to lowering the planning barriers to new developments, and reclassifying datacentres as Critical National Infrastructure.Even so, Telehouse said its research shows there is a need for the public to be better educated about the critical role that datacentres play in keeping the countrys increasingly digital economy ticking over.In response, the company has launched an education drive to help the general public build their knowledge of what the sector does, and learn more about datacentres and their significance to everyday life.The company has also committed to offering apprenticeships and work experience opportunities to young people in the datacentre market, and said it intends to advocate for more educational programmes focused on datacentre technologies in schools and universities.Mark Pestridge, executive vice-president and general manager at Telehouse Europe, said: We realise theres a significant knowledge gap regarding datacentres and their impact on digital lives [and] we hope to educate people about the critical work done in datacentres and inspire our future generations to consider careers in this field.We also hope that bridging this knowledge divide may be key to increasing trust in the digital infrastructure that underpins our connected lives, he saidIn The Current Issue:Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail BankPreparing for AI regulation: The EU AI ActDownload Current IssueData engineering - DataStax: Building the Gen-AI stack, how to plan ahead CW Developer NetworkRiverlane points to 2025 as year of quantum CW Developer NetworkView All Blogs

Castlevania NocturneNetflixNetflix has had a run of at least a few somewhat decent shows as of late, with mid-range ratings for American Primeval and the new season of XO Kitty. Squid Game was higher than both, but came in lower than season 1 of that series. But there is a new 100% scored show from critics that is being overlooked by the general audience base.That would be Castlevania Nocturne season 2, the sequel series to the original Castlevania anime, one of the first pieces of media to break the famed all video game adaptations are bad curse, even before Sonic the Hedgehog movies came on the scene (now more recently, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Arcane, The Last of Us and Fallout).Castlevania Nocturne is a show critics really like. Season 1 had a stellar 96% score, while season 2 now has a perfect 100% score. Castlevania NocturneRotten TomatoesSeason 1 ran into more controversy with fans with a dismal 47% audience score, with complaints about it not being faithful to the series with at least some amount of it went woke comments. But season 2 does not seem to have upset anyone nearly as much, as either those negative viewers tuned out, or it really did make things a lot better to achieve a now-fantastic 93% for season 2.MORE FOR YOUBut unlike Arcane or Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Castlevania Nocturne has not been near the top of Netflixs top 10 list. It debuted below #5 and has already sunk to tenth place. By tomorrow it will likely be off the list entirely.Is Castlevania Nocturne really that good? I did like season 1, but not as much as the original, certainly, despite similar scores. Season 1 of the original Castlevania series got an 83% from critics, which seems too low, but seasons 2, 3 and 4 got a 100%, 95% and 100% respectively. Fewer critics watch these shows than other, non-animated Netflix series, but the ones that do really enjoy it. And for the most part, outside of Nocturne season 1, fans do as well.We dont know yet of Castlevania Nocturne will get a season 3 or not, though the end of season 2 certainly demands one. Id say Netflix usually is a bit more lenient when it comes to animated projects going the distance, as they renew most. High profile ones like Edgerunners and Arcane, but also ones that garner less attention, like the recently-released Tomb Raider which garnered a deserved season 2, despite not landing terribly high on the charts. In short, Nocturne seems like a series worth continuing to invest in.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.

Something to look forward to: Nvidia announced its RTX 50-series graphics cards at CES 2025 in Las Vegas earlier this month. While gamers are still waiting for their official launch, early benchmarks suggest that the RTX 5090 will see only a moderate performance boost over its predecessor, the RTX 4090. The RTX 5090 was put through its paces in Geekbench 5, where it notched up impressive scores in both the OpenCL and Vulkan tests (via BenchLeaks). In the former, the 5090 scored 367,740 points, which is 15 percent more than what the RTX 4090 achieved. In the latter, the new flagship chalked up 359,742 points, which is 37 percent higher than the RTX 4090's score.In the CUDA API, the card scored 542,157 points, 27 percent higher than the 424,332 points racked up by the RTX 4090. While it is an impressive score, it's not as significant a generational leap as some had expected, given that the new card has 32 percent more CUDA cores than its predecessor.The RTX 5090 was also recently tested in Blender 3.6.0, where it notched up a median score of 17,822.17. This makes it roughly 36 percent faster than the RTX 4090, which scored 13,064.17 in the same test on the same version of the app. The China-exclusive RTX 5090D scored 14,706.65 in Blender v4.3.0, beating the RTX 4090D's score of 10,516.64 points by 40%.It is worth noting that these scores should be taken with a grain of salt as synthetic benchmarks do not always reflect real-world gaming performance, and the Blender benchmark only shows the performance metrics in a single app. For a better understanding of how the RTX 5090 performs in various popular games and how it compares to its predecessor, wait for our exhaustive review later this week.Alongside the RTX 5090, Nvidia also announced the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 at CES 2025. The 5090 and 5080 are set to launch on January 30, while the two RTX 5070 models will likely be available next month. The new cards offer many upgrades over the Ada Lovelace generation, but they're also priced higher, with the flagship 5090 costing $1,999. // Related Stories

Spin the wheel and get great prizes. It sounds too good to be true, or something out of a gameshow, but it is a reality for those watching content on Sling. The wheel, accessible after watching just 30 minutes of Sling per day, is available now and the rewards couldnt be more exciting. If youre not a Sling member yet, go ahead and tap the button below to get started.Youll want to decide between Sling Orange and Sling Blue, with the former being geared more to sports fans and the latter being for entertainment and news junkies, but you can get either for $23 in the first month, going up to just $46 after that. We find that Sling is more affordable than the competition, but this chance to win big rewards during that introductory $23 month makes it all the more enticing. Keep reading to see why.Spin & Win on Sling is part of Rewards, a program on Sling that gives you fun rewards just for showing up and using the service. Getting the ability to spin is incredibly simple, you just have to watch 30 minutes of programming on Sling each day to earn your entry. Then to the Sling app you go. When you spin, you could earn anything from a few dollars to a free month or even free year of Sling. Were also seeing a chance to win excellent Vizio products. Again, all you have to do to earn the reward is watch Sling (which we consider to be one of the best TV streaming services) for 30 minutes on a given day. You were probably going to do that anyways, so you might as well earn a reward while doing so.RelatedGetting started with Sling, watching your first 30 minutes, and getting your first reward spin is easy. Just tap the button below and choose your package to sign up. If youre looking for a new streaming service, trying it out for $23 and seeing what you get isnt a bad idea at all, especially since Sling focuses on delivering channels youll really watch for a cheap price instead of overloading you with just because channels that make navigating a service difficult. Good luck and happy spinning!Editors Recommendations

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Bismuth crystals reflect light in all colours of the rainbowOliver Berg/dpa/AlamyUltra-thin flakes of bismuth display mysterious magnetic properties which could help the soft, iridescent metal become a wonder material for making greener electronics.Frankly, Im still waking up at night because I wonder: what is at play here? says Guillaume Gervais at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.Researchers have suspected that very thin flakes of bismuth could have unusual physical properties, as other ultra-thin materials like carbon-based graphene do. But because bismuth is so

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The second wave of AI coding is here Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right nowwhat theyre really fired up aboutand many will tell you: coding. Everyone from established AI giants to buzzy startups is promising to take coding assistants to the next level. Instead of providing developers with a kind of supercharged autocomplete, this next generation can prototype, test, and debug code for you. The upshot is that developers could essentially turn into managers, who may spend more time reviewing and correcting code written by a model than writing it from scratch themselves.But theres more. Many of the people building generative coding assistants think that they could be a fast track to artificial general intelligence, the hypothetical superhuman technology that a number of top firms claim to have in their sights.Read the full story.Will Douglas Heaven OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science When you think of AIs contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year. Now OpenAI says its getting into the science game toowith a model for engineering proteins. The company says it has developed a language model that dreams up proteins capable of turning regular cells into stem cellsand that it has handily beat humans at the task. The work represents OpenAIs first model focused on biological data and its first public claim that its models can deliver unexpected scientific results. But until outside scientists get their hands on it, we cant say just how impressive it really is. Read the full story. Antonio Regalado Cleaner jet fuel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 New fuels made from used cooking oil, industrial waste, or even gases in the air could help power planes without fossil fuels. Depending on the source, they can reduce emissions by half or nearly eliminate them. And they can generally be used in existing planes, which could enable quick climate progress. These alternative jet fuels have been in development for years, but now theyre becoming a big business, with factories springing up to produce them and new government mandates requiring their use. So while only about 0.5% of the roughly 100 billion gallons of jet fuel consumed by planes last year was something other than fossil fuel, that could soon change. Read the full story.Casey Crownhart Cleaner jet fuel is one of our 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025, MIT Technology Reviews annual list of tech to watch. Check out the rest of the list, and cast your vote for the honorary 11th breakthrough. The must-reads Ive combed the internet to find you todays most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 TikTok is back online in the US The company thanked Donald Trump for vowing to fight the federal ban its facing. (The Verge)+ The app went dark for users in America for around 14 hours. (WP $)+ AI search startup Perplexity has suggested merging with TikTok. (CNBC)+ Heres how people actually make money on TikTok. (WSJ $)2 Trumps staff has an Elon Musk problem Aides are annoyed by his constant contributions to matters he has little knowledge of. (WSJ $)+ A power struggle between the two men is inevitable. (Slate $)+ The great and the good of crypto attended a VIP Trump party on Friday. (NY Mag $)3 AI is speeding up the Pentagons kill list Although the US military cant use the tech to directly kill humans, AI is making it faster and easier to plan how to do just that. (TechCrunch)+ OpenAIs new defense contract completes its military pivot. (MIT Technology Review)4 The majority of Americans havent had their latest covid booster Though they could help to protect youand others. (Undark)+ Its five years today since the US registered its first covid case. (USA Today)5 Europol is cracking down on encryption The agency plans to pressure Big Tech to give police access to encrypted messages. (FT $)6 This Swiss startup has created a powerful robotic wormBorobotics wants to deploy the bots to dig for geo-thermal heat in our gardens. (The Next Web) 7 Thousands of lithium batteries were destroyed in a massive fireThe worlds largest battery storage plant went up in flames in California. (New Scientist $) + Three takeaways about the current state of batteries. (MIT Technology Review)8 Amazons delivery drones struggle in the rain Bloomberg $) 9 A Ring doorbell captured a meteorite crashing to Earth Its the first known example of a meteorite fall documented by a doorbell cam. (CBS News)10 AI is coming for your wardrobe A wave of new apps will suggest what to wear and what to pair it with. (The Guardian)Quote of the day "TikTok was 100x better than anything you've created. An Instagram user snaps at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the wake of TikToks temporary US blackout over the weekend. The big story Running Tide is facing scientist departures and growing concerns over seaweed sinking for carbon removal June 2022 Running Tide, an aquaculture company based in Portland, Maine, hopes to set tens of thousands of tiny floating kelp farms adrift in the North Atlantic. The idea is that the fast-growing macroalgae will eventually sink to the ocean floor, storing away thousands of tons of carbon dioxide in the process. The company has raised millions in venture funding and gained widespread media attention. But it struggled to grow kelp along rope lines in the open ocean during initial attempts last year and has lost a string of scientists in recent months, sources with knowledge of the matter tell MIT Technology Review. What happens next? Read the full story. James Temple We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or skeet 'em at me.) + Why not cheer up your Monday with the kings of merriment, The Smiths?+ This is fascinating: how fish detect color and why its so different to us humans.+ The people of Finland know a thing or two about happiness.+ Its time to get planning a spring getaway, and these destinations look just fabulous.