What was your inspiration for this room specifically?I wanted this to be a place where youre peeling off the layers of the day. When we get home from work or come back from a hard day, we leave everything outside, come in here, close the door, put a record on, and were able to be our full selves. Ive got these little matchboxes that say The Last Layer with Shrek on the back. Ive also got coasters and menus in here, when people come in we get to have a restaurant experience. All the layers of yourself really get to be celebrated in this room.What was your approach to furnishing the room?[The banquette] was the first piece of furniture I builtI dont know if Id recommend doing that again, but it did work. This room is so multifunctional; its our office, a guest room, and a dining space. The banquette took us about two or three weeks to build. The chairs I already had and then I built the bar after I did [the banquette]. Our approach to furniture was, What do I already have on hand and how can I zhuzh that up?This room was a completely empty white box when we moved in. I got this paneling and molding on top at Home Depot. Granted everything is renter friendlysaying renter friendly for me is, if theres a couple holes, I know how to fill them and get the security deposit back. We made sure to put minimal holes on this. Sometimes people use command strips or things like that, but we are going to be here for a while. It was so inexpensive.It helped transform the room from not being an entry level Amazon purchase to a well-thought-out and well-designed Amazon purchase, Obiwuru says about these picture lights she ordered from the online retailer. I feel like the plastic picture light was for my twenties and now in my thirties its like, Lets add $50 and get the metal one.Photo: Paige NewtonWhat was your biggest splurge?Overall, the biggest splurge was this banquette. Its also fully removable so I can take this out and put it in the kitchen if I want. I wanted banquette seating and online they cost $4,000 or $5,000, which wasnt something I could do. Taking out the cost of buying the tools, it was $700, which is unheard of for a nine-by-four-foot bench. That was definitely the biggest splurge, but I knew it was going to set the whole vibe of the room, especially when I wanted to go in with brown walls. I knew having a red velvet against brown was not common, but its comforting enough to the eyes that it wouldnt be off-putting.

We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. Thats more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed.Lets start with the data summary, then well do a deep dive.TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford PintoWith that maddening statistic out of the way, lets dive into the numbers. Heres the table, with all sources linked below.CyberTruck and Ford Pinto Fire FatalitiesVehicle ModelTotal Units (Through Jan 1 2025)Reported Fire FatalitiesFatality Rate (Per 100,000 units)Tesla Cybertruck34,438514.52Ford Pinto (19711980)3,173,491270.85The Data: Fire Fatality Risk in the CyberTruck and Ford Pinto, ComparedIn 2 crashes and 1 incident in their first full year on American roads, the Cybertrucks burned 5 occupants who died. That would be a crash in Piedmont CA with 3 fatalities, a crash in Baytown TX with 1 fatality, and Im including the incident in Las Vegas NV that I am sure you are all familiar with. I understand that last inclusion is controversial, as the drivers burns were reportedly postmortem, so feel free to rerun these statistics without the Las Vegas incident included.With its decade-long production run, the NHTSA reported that the Ford Pinto and its famously flawed gas tank behind the rear bumper caused 27 fiery deaths with its knowingly negligent design. There are other estimates, including some much higher, but Im running with confirmable numbers here, either governmental sources for the Ford Pinto or news sources that I can verify for the Tesla CyberTruck.The Ford Pinto was a meme from the time before memes a symbol of corporate greed at the cost of consumer safety.The Infamous Ford Pinto, Known For Exploding Into A Fireball When Wrecked In The Rear (27 Confirmed Deaths Tied To This Issue) byu/Sorry_Youth_4802 inFordThe Data: CyberTruck and Ford Pinto Production Numbers, Compared.Confirming Ford Pinto production numbers is easy. Between 1970 and 1980, 3,173,491 Ford Pintos were produced. Thank you, unpaid Wikipedia editors, for your oddly intense attention to detail!Tesla does not release official delivery figures for all of its vehicles, which makes it tricky to say how many CyberTrucks are on the road. My best estimate is that 34,438 CyberTrucks have been delivered to customers as of Jan 1, 2025. I arrived at that number through a variety of means, including piecing together public reporting.Interestingly, a notable Tesla enthusiast operates a Patreon account where he also does open-source reporting on Tesla production numbers, including an exact number for CyberTrucks produced and delivered to customers. Thats Troy Teslike, and he is famously accurate. Troy asks his subscribers to not share his data, which is absolutely his prerogative as an independent researcher, so I should not say his estimate of CyberTrucks that are on the road.I can say his estimate and my estimate are directionally similar, I assume that is because we are both analyzing the same types of public data. If you saw the numbers side by side, I think you would agree. If it sounds like I am mincing my words, that is because I am!Subscribe to his Patreon if you would like to know his exact estimate. I dug into his methodology pretty deeply, and I can state with some confidence that it all definitely scans. It could be accurate.If you doubt my number of Cybertrucks on the road, use Troy Teslikes instead.Waiting on That NHTSA Crash Testing for the CybertruckSo, in conclusion, the Cybertruck is far more dangerous (by volume) that the historic poster child for corporate greed and grossly antagonistic design. I look forward to the Cybertruck being governmentally crash-tested by the NHTSA, which it has not been thus far. Until then, I cant recommend sitting in one.A note from the Chief Towing Officer: This is a story that nobody wants to write. The subject matter is grim, and weve done our best to honor the dead. We tried to deliver this as straight-faced news without the jokes, unlike our typical fare. Im CERTAIN that my inbox will be filled with entirely reasonable replies after I hit publish. OK, maybe thats wishful thinking. But, reporting news is important work, and we do work. Near as I can tell, you heard it here first. Kay

Monkey BusinessMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's release date seemingly leaks via a prematurely PlayStation stored trailer that ends with playful bum slappingBecause of course it does.Image credit: Konami News by Mark Warren Senior Staff Writer Published on Feb. 6, 2025 Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater now seemingly has a release date, thanks to a trailer that's allegedly leaked via the PlayStation Store. It features all the usual MGSy stuff you'd expect, and a familiar ape smacking its own arse.So we can get to the bum slapping nice and swiftly, I'll start with the date. According to the end of the trailer, it's August 28, 2025, with the game's PlayStation Store page looking like it was briefly updated to reflect this, before being reverted back to just saying 2025.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The trailer, which was spotted by ResetEra users, shows exactly the kind of stealthy, actiony stuff you'll be familiar with from the orginial MGS 3: Snake Eater, but with a fresh coat of probably camouflage paint.Now, the ending. All of a sidden the ape from Ape Escape pops up from behind a log, before running about and stopping to give its own tush a damn good hiding. We don't kink shame here at VG247, so congratuations to the ape for being so confident about expressing its sexuality on the big stage that is a trailer for an MGS game. We're clapping our cheeks in recognition.Why's this bum slapping occured, aside from to fulfil some monkey's masochistic tendencies, you might ask. Well, presulably the Snake vs. Monkey MGS/Ape Escape crossover mini-game from the PS2 versions of the original MGS 3 is making a comeback in Delta: Snake Eater, and this is a tease for that.It'd certainly be a fun thing to not have been discarded as a bit of history that some corporate doctrine or other rendered too difficult or weird to re-create for a modern remaster that may well be played by people who've not touched the original on that console, in addition to the legions of long-time snakey bois.After all, stupid sexy Ocelot is for everyone.

Bark If ScaredOscar winner Ke Huy Quan to star in Bad Boy, a new serial killer horror movie from Longlegs' producers somehow told from the POV of a dogNow this is cinema.Image credit: A24 News by Fran Ruiz Contributor Published on Feb. 6, 2025 If you're currently scanning for new oddball movies to keep an eye on, you'll be happy to learn about Bad Boy, which is coming from Longlegs and M3GAN producers and is set to star Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan and Hustlers' Lili Reinhart. The premise? It's a serial killer story told from the POV of a dog. Yes, really.Deadline shared the exclusive, stating the package is targeting this year's EFM in Berlin. It comes from Black Bear and is backed by "the producer of Longlegs, Dave Caplan, and M3GAN, Divide/Conquer's Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath."To see this content please enable targeting cookies. As it stands right now, production is expected to start in August in Canada with Jacob Chase (Come Play, The Girl In The Woods) behind the camera. The script from The Black List was written by Travis Braun.Contrary to what the title might suggest, we're expecting the dog to be a good boy after reading the official synopsis that's been shared: "Gary is a good boy who loves his new owner, Cameron (Ke Huy Quan). He gets treats and belly rubs and life is great. Gary isnt allowed in the basement though. And even if he was, he cant unlock doors. But theres a girl (Lili Reinhart) in the basement. And she cant come out to play. Gary doesnt know it, but hes her only chance." Let the adventure begin! (Though we doubt it'll be a pleasant one.)For Ke Huy Quan, who most people will remember from his recent roles in Everything Everywhere All At Once and Loki season 2, this will be a fantastic opportunity to work entirely different acting muscles. Reinhart, meanwhile, is best known for her role as Betty Cooper on The CW's Riverdale as well as her part in the 2019 movie Hustlers."Bad Boy is about loyalty, instinct, and the incredible bond between humans and dogs. Its going to be a highly original, grounded, deeply suspenseful fresh take on a horror thriller," director Chase teases. We gotta say it doesn't sound like an easy one to pull off, but this is the sort of fresh work of fiction we'd like to see more often, so colour me very interested.

Image: Nintendo LifeI am a creature of habit, so when The Pokmon Company revealed Pokmon Trading Card Game Pocket and its two-packs-a-day hook system, I knew that I was going to be a sucker for it. And here we are, a little over three months since its launch, and that's exactly what I am.My Pokmon monkey brain (Mankey brain?) has turned to the mobile app every day for the last 100-ish rotations of the sun to tap on a virtual packet, trace a virtual line, and watch as five virtual pictures pop up on my screen while I punch the very real air whenever I get something good.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube795kWatch on YouTube I love it in the same way that my childhood self loved ripping packs in the early 2000s (I wasn't around for the initial '90s boom, sorry), but it is also giving me the exact same headache that I experienced 20 years ago. Touch, TPC, you've bottled up trading card nostalgia, warts and all.There's a handful of perfectly legitimate grievances you might have with TCG Pocket the gacha, the myriad currencies and the blatant monetisation to name but a few but I'm not particularly talking about these when I refer to my card-induced headaches. Hourglasses, Trade Tokens and Pok Gold weren't all that common in my school playground (crazy, I know), but the app has managed to capture a different selection of substantially shallower quibbles, nonetheless. Things that were a right pain in the Numel *ahem* when I was five and have effortlessly transitioned to the present day.Images: Nintendo LifeWe'll start with the latest addition and biggest offender of them all: Trading. Trading is a nightmare in TCG Pocket. You need two separate currencies to swap, you can only trade with your friends, not all cards are up for grabs, and there's no way of knowing who wants what without sending a private message via another app of your choosing. I was quick to call out the BS of this new feature when it dropped, but after a week of using it, I've come to realise that it's just as stressful as it was trading with me in the playground.Every nitpick lines up perfectly with how I felt back in the day. Swapping cards of the same rarity is a given (I wasn't about to be robbed at age five, and I'm still not today), and I'd only enter a business transaction with my friends if I didn't know where you sourced your cards, how could I trust you'd be bringing the real deal to the table? The rarest of cards are off-limits in the app, just like my prized holos were circa 2003, and opening up WhatsApp or Discord to discuss potential trades is really the modern-day equivalent of whispering to a trusted trader over maths worksheets.At age five, I was putting the 'Don' in Pok-don ('you come to me on the day of my daughter's gym battle?'); today, all of the app's trading quirks align perfectly with how I used to run business back then. Again, Trade Tokens weren't a concern, but if an interested party wanted to throw in a handful of Starburst to sweeten the deal, I'd happily ensure that things were kept off-record.Image: Nintendo LifeThe nostalgia doesn't stop there. Do you remember that rumour from the app's early days that said a pack with a bent corner would be more likely to contain a hit? It was a load of rubbish, obviously, but for a sweet few hours, everyone whipped out their rulers and went holo hunting as if it were gospel. You can't tell me that such theories wouldn't have set the playground collecting scene on fire back in the day.The act of ripping packs in the app now leaves me with the same sense of unmatched anticipation meets crushing disappointment that I experienced in my youth. I'm lucky if I open a pack with fewer than four duplicates in it by this point, but the feeling of getting a hit and knowing you'll be able to brag about it to your friends (on Bluesky rather than at the park, admittedly) is still there.Heck, the app's daily opening limit may as well be a one-for-one recreation of my mum refusing to purchase every pack on display because I was really brave at the dentist something that makes a little more sense to me in my mid-20s than it did in single digits, honestly.Look, it's very easy to sit and pick holes in Pokmon TCG Pocket and for the past three months, I (and others at Nintendo Life) have been doing just that. But when I really think about it, most of the upsets are the same things I have carried with me since I first got into Pokmon.After an 800-word introspection, have I finally realised that I'm the problem here? Nah, it's probably just the Pok Gold.Is Pokmon TCG Pocket taking you back to the old days of card collecting, or is this something new and totally different? Let us know in the comments. "We have received a large number of comments"Gimme a Boost(er)Related GamesSee AlsoShare:00 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesPokmon TCG Pocket: Dialga EX Deck GuideChoo Choo! 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Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube795kWe were never lucky enough to land a Switch port of the acclaimed 2016 puzzle adventure The Witness, though the hybrid has managed to scratch that itch with a few titles in the years since (Memorrha, Botany Manor, etc.). Taiji is another one that we'd bundle into this group, a 2D open-world puzzler that arrives on the eShop on 25th February.The game's solo developer, Matthew VanDevander, was very open about its Witness inspiration when it launched on Steam back in 2022, and we can see why. This is a game where you explore a mysterious world, solving a series of grid-based puzzles as you go. Taiji switches The Witness' first-person perspective to a top-down, 2D pixel art, but the answers-hidden-in-plain-sight approach is all still present and correct.Since its launch, this one has gone on to pick up hundreds of 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, and it will be interesting to see how the puzzle interface translates to Switch. It certainly looks like a good pick-up for fans of the 'Metroidbrania' sub-genre.You'll find the game's eShop blurb and a handful of screenshots below:Taiji is an adventure puzzle-solving game set in a mysterious world full of puzzles. Unlike many adventure games, the puzzles in Taiji all use a consistent interface: a grid of tiles which can be toggled on or off.Although this might seem simple, the consistency of the interface frees the player from guesswork or pixel hunting that happens in many adventure games. It is always clear what the player must interact with in order to solve the puzzle, but it is never entirely clear what they must do. There are many different areas in the game, each with their own visual and mechanical themes. As you explore this dense world, it is important to think hard and to pay close attention, as vital clues are sometimes hidden in plain sight.Images: Low Tide ProductionsTaiji will launch on the European and North American Switch eShops on 25th Feb (20th for those in Hong Kong, Japan and Korea) for 22 / $24.99. Piecing it togetherWill you be picking this one up for some portable puzzling? Let us know in the comments.Related GamesSee AlsoShare:01 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related Articles69 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo's 'Supercharge' eShop Sale (North America)Every game we scored 9/10 or higherNintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games... and the Switch 2!Japan's Switch eShop Will Soon No Longer Accept Overseas Payment MethodsChange will come into effect in March"Nintendo Is Probably The Easiest To Scam" - Devs Discuss The Current State Of The eShopThe rise of "eSlop"

Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global supply chains. More recently, the TikTok-ification of retail has companies like Shein and Temu creating new products constantly as consumer demands change at the same rapid pace.Pendulum aims to help companies better plan for supply and demand in this new on-demand economy.Pendulums software connects all of a companys fragmented internal data sources, like inventory, procurement, and pricing, into one AI-powered model that is meant to help companies predict and optimize their supply and demand.Co-founder and CEO Benjamin Fels told TechCrunch that getting supply and demand right helps companies not only improve their margins but also reduce waste. The single most powerful thing you can do as a retailer to become more sustainable is absolutely nail supply versus demand, Fels said. If you know everything you make somebody wants, you are going to dramatically decarbonize your operations, and you are going to increase at massive scale your margins.Fels originally got the idea for Pendulum after he spent years on the derivatives trading floor and oversaw teams building AI-enabled prediction products for supply and demand on the financial side. Fels said he wondered if that same approach would also work for supply and demand in the supply chain world.He launched Macro-Eyes in June 2013 alongside Suvrit Sra at MIT to find out. The pair spent years doing research and development around this concept. When the company was ready to commercialize and raise institutional capital in 2023, they rebranded to Pendulum.Pendulum now works with enterprises across retail, healthcare, and national defense. Victoria Secret-owned Adore Me and the U.S. Department of Defense are customers.Pendulum is announcing a $22 million funding round that includes $11 million of non-dilutive capital, for research and development, and $11 million in venture capital from firms including: Lowercarbon Capital, Cross Border Impact Ventures and Decisive Point, among others. Fels said the company plans to use the funding to help the company get to scale with a core set of customers, continue to grow its customer base, and improve its product.Jean-Franois GagnIn addition to the funding news, Pendulum also announced that Jean-Franois Gagn, the co-founder of Element AI which was acquired by ServiceNow in 2020 for $230 million is joining the company as the chief strategy and product officer.I realized that JF not only had this insight on bringing AI to the enterprise, but also this rich history across supply chain and across a lot of these fundamental optimization problems, Fels said. After multiple three-hour straight conversations, it just clicked that JF needed to lead the product vision, and needed to lead strategy around how we take this to scale.Supply chain tech has become a hot category ever since the pandemic shined a light on how fragility of existing global supply chains. Fels thinks that Pendulum stands out because its algorithmic approach was built on a decade of research and development.People have been trying to optimize supply chains for 5,000 years, Fels said. Over the last two or three years, the volatility and the uncertainty both around supply and around demand, has just hit every retailer, every organization thats exposed to supply chain, with tremendous force. We felt that really required a different kind of response.

Fizz, the college social app, is looking for ways to enhance and expand its platform, and a recent new hire is poised to help drive these ambitions. The company has brought on David Vasquez, who previously served as TikToks head of creator monetization and a product lead for TikTok Shop, as Fizzs new head of product.With Vasquezs help, Fizz plans to build out its recommendation system, look at expanding its marketplace beyond peer-to-peer transactions with in-app payments, explore video content further, and open up its platform to advertising and brand partnerships.Vasquez came across Fizz through his role as startup adviser and was drawn to the social app because of its focus on authentic, community-based content. He was also impressed by the platforms high retention rate.You see a lot of social media apps that know how to grow really quickly and go viral, but they dont know how to retain their users, Vasquez told TechCrunch. Seeing that Fizz had people that were that engaged gave me a lot of confidence that they were on to something special here.Vasquez says hes most excited about helping Fizz build out its recommendation engine, noting that one of the reasons TikTok is so successful is because of its ability to put the right content in front of the right user at the right time. Vasquez wants to help replicate that at Fizz, so the company is looking at ways to enhance recommendations and personalize content for users.Personalization is really important to us, and as we scale our user base, we see trends around different types of topics, Vasquez said. So, when we can elevate certain trends, or we can personalize content based on what somebody is engaging with, if youre engaging a lot with sports content, how can we show you more of that type of content? We definitely want to diversify the content that people talk about and also personalize it to users experiences.Image Credits:FizzIn addition, Vasquez plans to focus on expanding Fizzs recently launched peer-to-peer marketplace using insights he learned from scaling TikTok Shop, specifically around how Gen Z likes to shop. For example, Fizz might integrate payments into its platform and also open up its marketplace to brands, he said.The way that users buy products from each other today is purely via DMs, Vasquez said. Theres a lot more we could do there. We could think about payments and allowing users to transact on Fizz as well. And so, starting to build in that direction, I think is really interesting for us, too. And then, thinking about brands as well, like, how can we integrate e-commerce brands into the Fizz marketplace such that people not only are buying peer-to-peer products, but maybe they can even buy products from established brands as well.Fizz is also further exploring video; one of the first changes Vasquez pushed for at Fizz was to increase the maximum length of videos that users could share from 15 seconds to 30 seconds. After doing so, the platform has seen a 350% increase in video content creation on the platform.The startup plans to continue to push into video given Gen Zs interest in the format. For now, Fizz is going to focus on short, engaging content and may expand the maximum limit to a minute at some point in the future.The platform is now also open to brand partnerships and is seeing a lot of interest from generative AI companies looking to advertise.Fizz is going into 2025 strong: It has seen a 245% increase in daily posts since the start of the year. The platform has also seen a 61% increase in daily active users (DAUs). Vasquez says some of the growth can be attributed to the uncertainty around TikToks future in the U.S.And Fizz isnt the only one: During Snaps earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said the overall environment of uncertainty [around TikTok] is benefiting our business. Founded in 2021, Fizz is now available at more than 300 colleges and universities and has more than 18 million posts on its platform. The startup has raised $41 million in funding to date.

Breakdown & ShowreelsKraven the Hunter: VFX Breakdown by Rodeo FXBy Vincent Frei - 06/02/2025 The streets of London and an ancient monastery become battlegrounds in Kraven the Hunter, thanks to the really cool VFX work made by Rodeo FX. Their seamless digital enhancements amplify every chase, every fight, and every explosion, delivering a thrilling cinematic experience!WANT TO KNOW MORE?Rodeo FX: Dedicated page about Kraven the Hunter on Rodeo FX website. Vincent Frei The Art of VFX 2025

NAAREA, a France-based nuclear microreactor developer, will build NAAREAs eXtra Advanced Nuclear Reactor (XAMR) microreactor in partnership with Phoenix Manufacture. The XAMR microreactor is a molten salt, fast neutron reactor, capable of producing 40 megawatts of electricity and 80 megawatts of thermal energy from nuclear spent fuel.Phoenix Manufacture, based in Niort, France, specializes in industrializing complex devices for military, nuclear, oil & gas, aeronautics, and robotics markets.A render of the planned XAMR microreactor. Image via NAAREA.Building microreactor using 3D printingThe deal provides industrial solutions to develop the XAMR microreactor. The contract is mainly for prototyping, first-of-a-kind (FOAK) production, and, intriguingly, mass production.The next-generation nuclear company, whose name stands for Nuclear Abundant Affordable Resourceful Energy for All, and Phoenix Manufacture will use technologies like 3D printing and will build a combined plant with specialized reprocessing facilities.We have chosen to rely on the expertise and skill of Phoenix Manufacture, which will contribute to the design of an XAMR microreactor made in France. Incorporating additive manufacturing represents a major asset for us: it will allow us to produce parts with consistent quality controlled in situ at each step of the manufacturing process, NAAREA CEO and Founder Jean-Luc Alexandre said.NAAREAs CEO added, Additive manufacturing also makes it possible to lower production costs, reduce assembly needs, and meet the highest standards in terms of safety and security, which remains our absolute priority.Additionally, this partnership demonstrates NAAREAs dedication to collaborating with French partners, strengthening local French industry capabilities, and advancing technological progress.The strategic plan to build the XAMR microreactorThe partnership is built on five key stages that will last until 2032.Initial stage: This includes the verification of raw materials and manufacturing feasibility of NAAREA-designed additive parts.Prototyping: This phase highlights component prototyping for the XAMR microreactor.Series manufacture: This stage revolves around supplying the components required for mass production and the FOAK.Increasing production capacity: The fourth phase includes research into the establishment of an integrated facility for the production of XAMR microreactor components, resource sharing, and bilateral skill development.Reprocessing: The last phase would be the assessment of methods for recovering and reusing production-related waste and recycling used parts.We firmly believe that this disruptive technology is profoundly transforming all industries, in particular the nuclear sector. In our collaboration with NAAREA, we share a common ambition: to become key agents of change. Together, we are creating positive momentum to strengthen sectors contributing to sovereignty and shape an ambitious technological future, added CEO and co-founder of Phoenix Manufacture Marco Calcamuggi.3D printing and nuclear energyThe development of next-generation energy solutions is increasingly enabled by additive manufacturing. For example, the Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) is using Desktop Metals X-Series binder jet systems for ceramic micro-encapsulated fuel. The serial production is used by USNCs micromodular reactor (MMR) energy systems.Elsewhere, QuesTek Innovations, a computational materials design expert, received $1.1 million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE). The proceeds will be used to research and develop new alloys and 3D printing techniques, particularly for future nuclear reactor manufacturing.3D Printing Industry is hosting alive webinar to preview the 2025 AMUG Conference. Join us and our guests on Wednesday, 12th February.To stay up to date with the latest 3D printing news, dont forget to subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry newsletter or follow us on Twitter, or like our page on Facebook.While youre here, why not subscribe to our YouTube channel? Featuring discussion, debriefs, video shorts, and webinar replays.Are you looking for a job in the additive manufacturing industry? Visit 3D Printing Jobs for a selection of roles in the industry.Featured image shows a render of the planned XAMR microreactor. Image via NAAREA.Aditya RangrooAditya Rangroo has over 15 years of journalism experience with leading media houses specializing in business, finance, and technology news. He has extensively covered startups, investments, IPOs, and the EV sector. Additionally, he has contributed byline articles to global publications focused on corporate venturing, regional economies, and business law. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Media with a major in Journalism from Mumbai University and an MA in Media and Globalisation from Nottingham Trent University, UK.