Multi-color filament printing has always carried a heavy tax. Every time a printer switches filaments mid-layer it pauses, pulls the old plastic back, primes the new one, and often dumps a blob of mixed waste into a purge tower. On complex painted models those swaps can number in the thousands. Print times stretch into days and entire spools disappear into the scrap bin.
Europeans now get a direct look at the faces and landscapes that could soon fill their wallets. This week the European Central Bank unveiled ten shortlisted design proposals for the next series of euro notes and opened an online survey so the public can weigh in before a final choice arrives at the end of the year.
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Radar signals from the joint US-India NISAR satellite have mapped a mountaintop in East Antarctica that forms a clear hummingbird shape once the data is processed into color. Scientists at the mission nicknamed the result “the hummingbird” almost as soon as the image appeared.
Zach Cregger is taking another swing at Resident Evil after a string of movies that left fans cold. His version opens in theaters September 18 and runs a tight 95 minutes. It stars Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier who signs up for a double-pay job delivering an organ to Raccoon City General on a snowy night. He has a pregnant girlfriend waiting at home and zero idea what waits for him once the truck rolls into the wrong part of town.
Clinical trial participants living with paralysis are now guiding powered wheelchairs through nothing more than intention. Neuralink just released footage showing how its N1 implant turns brain signals into real movement of a chair, complete with forward drive, reverse, steering, and even seat adjustments.