3D Printing

• [New] Australia has secured an additional 20 million doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison warns that the much-needed supply will not arrive until the end of the year.
• [New] As a software as a service (SaaS) technology, PCBflow incorporates the security standards of Siemens' software, reducing risk and protecting intellectual property (IP) with no additional IT investment.
• [New] In addition to fixing infrastructure, Pune will upgrade its neighborhoods to world-class livability standards in a phased manner, starting with the local area development pilot.
• [New] An additional 47 million women and girls will fall into extreme poverty due to the global health crisis and poverty rates will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2030.
• [New] If Sputnik is approved in Europe, then the state of Bavaria will receive additional doses of vaccine, 2.5 million, in the coming months.
• [New] In addition to its commercial benefits, the rapid development of A.I. will advantage China by adding a potentially devastating tool to its cyberwar arsenal.
• [New] Based on pre-clinical work and data from Gritstone's cancer patients, we hope and expect to see strong neutralizing antibodies to Spike, as well as CD8+ T cell responses to both Spike and additional viral antigens, which may provide clinical protection against emerging Spike variants.
• [New] The design of the South African crossover trial will enable Novavax to evaluate whether an additional dose of its vaccine improves protection against B. 1.351.
• [New] Without additional effort to give all people a fair shot, across country, gaps in living standards could widen significantly, and decades long progress in global poverty reduction could reverse.
• [New] The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to bring additional risks and challenges for South Asia, impacting communities and households through multiple channels.
• [New] The systems that still have backdoors will become part of the complex cybercriminal economy where additional ransomware operators and affiliates take advantage of it.
• [New] India announced additional measures that will further ease fiscal policy, mainly by boosting spending, in the next 12 months.
• [New] International travel poses additional risks and even fully vaccinated travelers are at increased risk for getting and possibly spreading new COVID-19 variants.
• [New] Fast Company cited companies measuring their progress on the circular economy as one of the seven ways the circular economy will grow in 2021.
• [New] The United States Army announced that it will work with Microsoft on the production phase of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System program as it moves from rapid prototyping to production and rapid fielding.
• [New] In addition to ramping up production and ensuring access to vaccines world-wide, ensuring that financially constrained countries have adequate access to international liquidity will be important.
• [New] Without additional efforts to give all people a fair shot, cross-country gaps in living standards could widen significantly, and decades - long trends of global poverty reduction could reverse.
• [New] Over the longer term, additional funding for programs such as HBIIP should be included in any infrastructure plans being considered in Washington, so that lower-carbon fuels can be made readily available to the 260 million liquid-fueled vehicles registered in the Unites States today.
• [New] The global rapid prototyping market will continue to be influenced by a range of factors such as rising demand for 3D printing technology worldwide, and increasing demand for rapid prototyping to speed-up the design and production process.
• [New] In addition to traditional infrastructure projects, Biden's $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan would make government investments in broadband, electric vehicles, climate change, elderly care, child benefits, housing and developing future technologies.
• The Biden Administration has suggested that it will pursue additional measures against Russia in response to the SolarWinds cyberattack, which affected approximately nine US government agencies and about 100 private companies.
• Effective implementation of Next Generation EU can deliver 2% of additional gross domestic product by 2024 and create 2 million jobs, inter alia by accelerating the green and digital transition.

Last updated: 11 April 2021