New 3D Printing Technology Is 100 Times Faster, Claims Startup

A US startup has developed a new 3D printing technology that uses light and oxygen to print solid objects at speeds 25 to 100 times faster than current technology.

The 3D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc, enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3D printing, researchers said.

The technology allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation.

The technology, called Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) manipulates light and oxygen to fuse objects in liquid media, creating the first 3D printing process that uses tunable photochemistry instead of the layer-by-layer approach that has defined the technology for decades.

It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen-permeable window into a liquid resin.Working in tandem, light and oxygen control the solidification of the resin, creating commercially viable objects that can have feature sizes below 20 microns, or less than one-quarter of the width of a piece of paper.

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Dropbox Badge Rolls Out to All Business Users; Commenting Feature Unveiled

Dropbox on Tuesday announced that it has started rolling out the new Dropbox Badge collaboration feature to all Dropbox for Business users. The service was until now available for early access users since it launched in December last year. The cloud storage firm also introduced a commenting feature for early access users.

The Dropbox Badge collaboration feature service for Microsoft Office documents let users see who else is viewing or editing the document; check for a more recent version of the document and update, and also generate a link to share the document.

Dropbox in its blog post stated that almost 13,000 customers have already been using the Badge service under the early access programme that was launched in December. "It's helped them cut down on long email threads, multiple file versions, and having to jump from app to app," said the post.

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Steam Now Allows Refunds for EU Users, Demands Disclosure of Paid User Promotions

Digital distribution service Steam has updated its subscriber agreement for European users. Now, if you purchase games on Steam and are in the European Union, there's a 14-day period within which you can obtain a refund on what you bought.

"If you are an EU subscriber, you have the right to withdraw from a purchase transaction for digital content without charge and without giving any reason for a duration of fourteen days or until Valve's performance of its obligations has begun with your prior express consent and your acknowledgement that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal, whichever happens sooner.

Therefore, you will be informed during the checkout process when out performance starts and asked to provide your prior express content to the purchase being final," the subscriber agreement reads.

For other territories like India, Steam's policies for refunds are to dole them out on a case by case basis. If you have pre-ordered a game, you can cancel your pre-order automatically and receive the refund in your Steam wallet. Or if an already released game is subject to community ire and the developers agree to it, refunds may be granted post-release as in the case with Ubisoft's From Dust.

In other Steam-related news, the service now requires public disclosure in the event users are compensated for a review, forum post, broadcast curation, or uprooting a game on Greenlight.

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Microsoft to Bring League of Legends MOBA to Windows 10

In a move that helps solidify Microsoft's attempt at being taken seriously by PC gamers, the company is partnering with Tencent to bring popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends (LoL) to the Windows 10 store. This was announced on the company's blog.

"Tencent, the leading social networking and gaming services company in China, announced it will offer Windows 10 as a free upgrade to its customers on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in China, and include QQ, Tencent Video and Tencent PC Manager in the Windows 10 free upgrade pack. Tencent will create a Windows 10 universal app for their flagship QQ app, which has over 800 million customers in China, and bring their most popular PC games, such as League of Legends, Cross Fire and Dungeon & Fighter to Windows 10 and the new Windows store," the blog post reads.

Windows 8 never released in China and LoL is one of the most popular if not the most popular game in China. It makes perfect sense for the company to partner Tencent in an attempt to gain traction.

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Twitter Makes It Easier to Report Threats to Law Enforcement

Twitter on Tuesday rolled out a new feature that will help users report threats received on the micro-blogging network to law enforcement. "Today [Tuesday] we're starting to roll out a change that makes it easier for you to report threats that you feel may warrant attention from law enforcement," noted official Twitter blog about the threat reporting feature.

The micro-blogging website doesn't report threats to concerned authorities for you, but it provides an "Email report" option that will summarise all the relevant information in an email from the Twitter Safety Team, which can be then be kept for the user's records or given to authorities. Alongside the email report option, mute and block options are also provided for use in the "meantime".

Once a user reports a threatening tweet directed at them to Twitter (via the Report option seen alongside every tweet), they will see an option on the last screen to receive a official report summary from the Twitter Safety via email. The summary will contain the threatening tweet and URL along with the Twitter username and URL of the threatening user, as well as the timestamp of when the user filed the report.

Twitter has also provided guidelines for law enforcement explaining what additional information company has and can provide to concerned authorities, and this is linked in the email report generated by the firm.

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Nomad Pod Is a Nifty Battery Pack for the Apple Watch

Ahead of the launch of the Apple Watch on April 24, accessory maker Nomad has already announced a battery pack for the smartwatch called Pod.

Flaunting a puck-like design, the Nomad Pod houses an 1800mAh battery, and a slot on top where the Apple Watch can be placed. The Watch will need to be connected to the official MagSafe charging cable, which can be coiled around a ring inside accessed by lifting off the top enclosure.

A USB-C connector is also equipped inside the battery pack that can be used for both input and output - notably, Apple's new 12-inch MacBook features a USB-C port. The Nomad can also deliver power via Type A USB, and be charged via Micro-USB.

According to the accessory maker, the Pod can charge the Apple Watch fully four times. The Pod battery pack is yet to go into production however, and TechCrunch notes that Nomad is waiting for the final dimensions of the Apple Watch from the firm before manufacturing the battery pack.

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The Nomad Pod website states the first batch of 5,000 units to ship starting June 15. The device will be available in three colour variants - Silver, Space Grey and Matte Black. The Pod can also be pre-ordered for $60 each.