Hobbyists commonly feed this type of filament into commercial desktop 3D printers, which heat the plastic and extrude ... systems used in some newer printer models. On Bluesky, Strosnider ...

Hobby Town The city of Shizuoka is a modeling mecca. Home to 10 hobby manufacturers—Tamiya, Bandai, Aoshima, and Hasegawa, to name a few—it is where more than 80% of Japan’s plastic model ...

The new benchmark, called Elephant, makes it easier to spot when AI models are being overly sycophantic—but there’s no current fix. Back in April, OpenAI announced it was rolling back an ...

Bandai has been making Gundam plastic models, or Gunpla, since the 1980s. Gunplas are model kits of mecha from the long-running Gundam anime series. They are shipped in a grid of plastic runners ...

circular economy through its use in various vehicles models starting with the Toyota Camry. 2 It is the first time in the world 4 that recycled plastic containing 50% ELV plastic is used in ...

SHIZUOKA -- A tea merchant in this central Japan city has launched an original green tea blend inspired by the illustrations on packaging of plastic models, which is a major industry in the city.

But it’s not just a thought experiment. Plastic companies are using an even more convoluted version of this accounting technique in order to make it seem that their products have more recycled ...

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than ...

Remember when teachers demanded that you "show your work" in school? Some new types of AI models promise to do exactly that, but new research suggests that the "work" they show can sometimes be ...

Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that’s just as stable in everyday use but dissolves quickly in saltwater, leaving behind safe compounds. The benefit of plastics ...