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Birthday of internet inanity, 3D printing implants during surgery and Google's mobile network
3D-printed implants, anyone?
3D-printed implants, anyone?
(Image: Osiris Biomed)

Print my surgery
Nurse! Print me a femur, stat! Start-up Osiris Biomed 3D wants to print implants on demand during reconstructive surgery, based on live scans of a patient’s body. The idea is to be able to fast-track people in urgent need of surgery. The firm won a pitch competition earlier this month at the New York 3D Printing Conference and Expo.

“The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunksâ€

Internet inanity began 10 years ago last week, when YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the site’s first video – a 19-second clip of his visit to the zoo

Google on the phone
Google has fingers in many pies: search, robots, self-driving cars and now, phone calls. Its new mobile network, Project Fi, launched last week. The service automatically chooses the strongest connection available – whether that’s WiFi or a cell network – and routes all calls, texts and data through it. Anyone can sign up online, but for now the service only works with Google’s Nexus 6 phone.