Everyone knows that 3D printing is the technology of the moment all over the planet. But who would have thought its popularity will soon spread beyond the planet? NASA is planning to put a 3D printer in space. Not on its own, of course, but along with the astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS)….
Databases continue to be hacked and confidential personal information continues to be stolen (here’s the latest instance). There is a 28% possibility that yours will be hacked into in the next 12 months (according to the IOUG Data Security Survey). To know where you risk factors lie, examine this…
Very soon you will be able to get 3D printing done at any neighborhood print shop. UPS, for instance, has just announced its store at Menlo Park will be offering the service from this week onwards (read news report). For those of us who did not see the trend coming, tsk, tsk. It is, after…
Everything that comes in the course of time, goes in the course of time. — Ancient Hindu proverb It could be the turn of MySQL to go in the course of time. The truth of the matter is that a large group of database user heavies (Google, Wikipedia, Red Hat et al) are exasperated…
Many of us are familiar with designing 3D objects using specialized software such as AutoCAD. As the designer painstakingly creates the object, it is necessary for him to manipulate the object in three dimensions. He has to do this to have access to all points on the object, which is required for say, adding a…