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You don’t find mailroom services at every housing and apartment complex that guarantees safe processing of packages for the residents. In order to limit the possibility of packages being stolen or ending up missing, Amazon has introduced its very own delivery locker service called The Hub. It can basically be defined as a set of lockers where Amazon parcels are delivered and stored safely.

Amazon’s The Hub delivery locker system is a good option for housing and apartment complexes that don’t have mailroom services. All packages meant for residents in that complex are delivered and stored within The Hub.

When the customer wants to receive their parcel, they just have to enter their pickup code into the system and the correct door will open to the locker that holds their parcel. According to Amazon, The Hub will accept deliveries from any sender and any retailer.

The Hub is available in multiple sizes, ranging from the Starter Hub, which is six feet in width and has 42 compartments. An expansion module can be attached for an additional 23 compartments.

Since Amazon isn’t directly selling The Hub to individual customers, it would make no sense to do so, it hasn’t revealed the price for The Hub. Those who are interested in getting one are asked to submit a form that contains details about their complex.

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It was reported earlier this year that Samsung might end up overtaking Intel and become the world’s largest chipmaker, as far as revenue is concerned. The company has ended up doing that. It has dethroned Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker, a position that the company has enjoyed for almost two-and-a-half decades.

Samsung reported its earnings results for the second quarter of this year a few days back. Not only did the company earn a record operating profit of $12.6 billion which made it the most profitable tech company in the world, but it also overtook Intel.

Samsung earned $15 billion in revenue from its semiconductor business alone which is slightly above Intel’s $14.8 billion revenue from semiconductors in the second quarter of this year. This has allowed Samsung to end Intel’s 24-year reign and become the largest chipmaker in the world by revenue.

This obviously doesn’t mean that Samsung sold as many or more processors than Intel. The latter’s primary products include its processors for PCs and servers.

On the other hand, Samsung makes chips for mobile devices, IoT devices, and connected vehicles. The company’s semiconductor division also earns a lot of money due to flash memory and SSD memory products that have proven to be a cash cow for Samsung.

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The move by the Health and Human Services secretary would hobble the Obamacare exchanges.

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3D printing can prove to be a cost-effective resource for militaries across the globe and they have been testing the idea to create replacement parts and even meals for their soldiers. The United States Navy teamed up with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to 3D print something much bigger than a replacement part. It has 3D printed a submersible as a proof-of-concept in less than four weeks.

A team from the Naval Surface Warfare Center and Carderock Division’s Disruptive Technology Laboratory developed this 3D printed submersible. It’s called the Optionally Manned Technology Demonstrator and is based on a submersible that the SEALs are currently using.

Work on this project started in August last year and since it’s a pretty big vessel, they had to use an industrial 3D printer called Big Area Additive Manufacturing to print six sections out of carbon fiber. The sections were then assembled to create this 30 foot long vessel.

The team had four weeks to develop the hull so they spent the first week in design and then started printing the components in the following week. It now happens to be the largest 3D printed asset of the United States Navy.

A conventional hull can take up to five months to manufacture and may cost up to $800,000, according to the Department of Energy. This 3D printer hull was 90 percent cheaper and produced in less than a month.

Since this is a proof of concept vessel it’s not functional but it goes to show that it’s indeed possible to print such massive creations. It’s expected that fleet-capable prototypes of the 3D printed vessels could be launched by 2019.

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