Every day, I see people asking questions in forums or posting jobs on freelance websites, desperately trying to get help with creating their next eBook, free report or whitepaper.

To me, this shouldn’t be complicated, but it is. And I spent years battling with the same issues — content creation, design, formatting… fiddling with different tools, hiring experts, and throwing countless hours and bags of money down a huge hole.

Today, technology is finally catching up… and I’m excited to share a brand-new tool I’ve been praying to be made for years… it’s called Sqribble and it’s going to change the game for anyone who’s sick and tired of creating eBooks, Kindle books, reports, and other PDFS the hard way! http://pokeey46.sqribblex.hop.clickbank.net

What is Sqribble?

Well, imagine a tool that could automatically create:

— Professional, eye-grabbing covers that stop scrollers in their tracks…

— Beautiful book designs that boost perceived value and trust…

— Clean layouts that engage readers…

— Engaging content that turns casual readers into buyers

Yeah, that’s Sqribble. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Check out what this beast can do at the link below.

Personally, I’m pumped for this. No more spending weeks hunched over a desk, hacking away at content, design, and formatting.

No more expensive templates and overpriced graphics.

No more hiring freelancers and watching my profit margins flushed down the toilet. Sqribble takes care of everything, with a few clicks and taps. Check it out right here, before they push the price up (which they will, officially.  http://pokeey46.sqribblex.hop.clickbank.net  

3-D Metal Printing

DEREK BRAHNEY

While 3-D printing has been around for decades, it has remained 
largely in the domain of hobbyists and designers producing one-off 

prototypes. And printing objects with anything other than plastics-
in particular, metal—has been expensive and painfully slow.

Now, however, it’s becoming cheap and easy enough to be a 
potentially practical way of manufacturing parts. If widely 
adopted, it could change the way we mass-produce many products.

3-D Metal Printing

• Breakthrough
  Now printers can make metal objects quickly and cheaply.
• Why It Matters
  The ability to make large and complex metal ­objects on demand could transform manufacturing.
• Key Players
  Markforged, Desktop Metal, GE
• Availability
  Now

In the short term, manufacturers wouldn’t need to maintain large 

inventories—they could simply print an object, such as a replacement 

part for an aging car, whenever someone needs it.

In the longer term, large factories that mass-produce a limited range of 

parts might be replaced by smaller ones that make a wider variety, 

adapting to customers’ changing needs.

The technology can create lighter, stronger parts, and complex shapes that aren’t possible with conventional metal fabrication methods. It can also provide more precise control of the microstructure of metals. In 2017, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced they had developed a 3-D-printing method for creating stainless-steel parts twice as strong as traditionally made ones. 

Also in 2017, 3-D-printing company Markforged, a small startup based outside Boston, released the first 3-D metal printer for under $100,000.

Another Boston-area startup, Desktop Metal, began to ship its first metal prototyping machines in December 2017. It plans to begin selling larger machines, designed for manufacturing, that are 100 times faster than older metal printing methods.

The printing of metal parts is also getting easier. Desktop Metal now 

offers software that generates designs ready for 3-D printing. Users tell 

the program the specs of the object they want to print, and the software produces a computer model suitable for printing.   

GE, which has long been a proponent of using 3-D printing in its aviation products (see “10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013: Additive Manufacturing”), has a test version of its new metal printer that is fast 

enough to make large parts. The company plans to begin selling the 

printer in 2018. —Erin Winick

AI for Everybody

MIGUEL PORLAN

Artificial intelligence has so far been mainly the plaything of big tech companies like Amazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft, as well as some startups. For many other companies and parts of the economy, AI systems are too expensive and too difficult to implement fully.

AI for Everybody

• BreakthroughCloud-based AI is making the technology cheaper and easier to use.
• Why It MattersRight now the use of AI is dominated by a relatively few companies, but as a cloud-based service, it could be widely available to many more, giving the economy a boost.
• Key PlayersAmazon; Google; Microsoft
• AvailabilityNow

What’s the solution? Machine-learning tools based in the cloud are bringing AI to a far broader audience. So far, Amazon dominates cloud AI with its AWS subsidiary. Google is challenging that with TensorFlow, an open-source AI library that can be used to build other machine-learning software. Recently Google announced Cloud AutoML, a suite of pre-trained systems that could make AI simpler to use.

Microsoft, which has its own AI-powered cloud platform, Azure, is teaming up with Amazon to offer Gluon, an open-source deep-learning library. Gluon is supposed to make building neural nets—a key technology in AI that crudely mimics how the human brain learns—as easy as building a smartphone app.

It is uncertain which of these companies will become the leader in offering AI cloud services.  But it is a huge business opportunity for the winners.

These products will be essential if the AI revolution is going to spread more broadly through different parts of the economy.

Currently AI is used mostly in the tech industry, where it has created efficiencies and produced new products and services. But many other businesses and industries have struggled to take advantage of the advances in artificial intelligence. Sectors such as medicine, manufacturing, and energy could also be transformed if they were able to implement the technology more fully, with a huge boost to economic productivity.

Most companies, though, still don’t have enough people who know how to use cloud AI. So Amazon and Google are also setting up consultancy services. Once the cloud puts the technology within the reach of almost everyone, the real AI revolution can begin. 
—Jackie Snow