Alex King Talks Rare Earths Shortage; A 3-D Printer Developed by 3-D Printer Users

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Featured Video Alex King Talks Rare Earths Shortage Rare earths are important in the manufacture of items from strong magnets to touch screens and rechargeable batteries. While not necessarily as rare as the word "rare" implies, rare earths are hard to mine, separate, and use. They are often found in parts per million quantities, so it takes supercomputers to suss out which deposits are worth going after. This is what CMI Director Alex King and his coworkers spend their time doing--finding concentrations of rare earths that can be mined and refined profitably. Timothy Lord asks him about this effort and questions you submitted earlier in the month. ==================================================================== The Big Tech Picture: Issues that Drive Enterprise IT You've heard all the buzzwords. Big Data. Mobility. The Cloud. Security. These four issues continue to vex IT at companies of every size around the globe. Which challenges are most pressing, and what should IT and LOB both be doing to resolve the challenges of the day? ===================================================================== Additional Features A 3-D Printer Developed by 3-D Printer Users When an Engineer Gets an Art Degree Because He's Too Lazy for Math Homemade Wooden Bicycle More Fun than Practical ==================================================================== 10 Ways to Save Money with IBM Data Protection IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions can help organizations save money while addressing their data storage challenges by providing data reduction, unified recovery management, capacity-based licensing, scalability, high performance, data life-cycle management, and high reliability. ===================================================================== Follow Slashdot on Twitter and on Facebook.     You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as samuel.goulder@gmail.com   To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-47675@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.