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MakerBot, a global leader in 3D printing, today announces details of one of its first customers utilizing the recently launched MakerBot METHOD, the first performance 3D printer. PENSA, an industrial design and invention consulting firm based in New York City, is using METHOD to streamline its product design and development processes while reducing overall production time and costs.

The company announced on Thursday that it will include a new rating, which is widely being referred to as an “adversity score,” of between 1 and 100 on students’ test results. An average score is 50, and higher numbers mean more disadvantage. The score will be calculated using 15 factors, including the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s neighborhood.

These groups’ worries are understandable, particularly given the recent series of revelations showing how tech is already being used to enforce controversial immigration policies. Despite the company’s previous assurances to the contrary, it was recently revealed by the organization Mijente that Palantir, the data analytics firm founded by Peter Thiel, contracted software to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that reportedly helped target and arrest parents and other relatives of unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border. The Palantir case is just one revelation, but there are many more contracts between major tech companies and immigration agencies that remain under scrutiny and whose details are relatively unknown.

Schopenhauer: "Their rude attitude goes beyond our patience. Withdraw Japanese Embassy, consulate and businesses from South Korea."

The College Board, the company that administers the SAT exam taken by about two million students a year, will for the first time assess students not just on their math and verbal skills, but also on their educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, entering a fraught battle over the fairness of high-stakes testing.

Carrefour, which is Europe’s largest retailer, aims to reach a 100% rate for recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging for its own brands by 2025.

Anduril’s helicopter-style drones are small enough that they can fit in a backpack and are barely audible at 400 feet away. From a hardware perspective, what differentiates them from sUAS drones is that only one person is needed to launch and operate them and can do so remotely from a mobile phone. Anduril says its tools are a fraction of the cost of sUAS drones, which can run around six figures for a system.

Fang has also created a new class of 3-D printed metamaterials using projection micro-stereolithography. These materials are composed of complex structures and geometries. Unlike most solid materials, the metamaterials don’t expand with heat and don’t shrink with cold.

Mr. Lakhani said that in his view, colleges were already doing a good job of considering adversity, as indicated by rising numbers of first-generation and low-income students, especially at elite colleges.

Apart from the Hindon river, two of its tributaries, Krishna and Kali, also receive toxic chemical waste from the industrial units. One of the most striking sites is the Begrajpur nalla (drain) near Muzaffarpur which deposits tons of hazardous chemicals everyday in the river Kali.

Consumers in China are taking to social media to express their support for Huawei as the U.S. government looks to ramp up pressure on the Chinese smartphone maker.

In the meantime, however, cannabis companies are at the mercy of third-party labs that all employ their own in-house testing methods.