Tuesday, October 21, 2014

3D Printer Builds Homes From Mud In Impoverished Areas

Nearly one billion people around the world are homeless or live in substandard housing
With the great gift of 3-D printing, some have addressed this with the building concrete property
This method increases the cost significantly with the transportation of it
The 3-D printing company WASP solved this problem by creating a portable machine that can create dwellings out of mud and natural fibers

WASP featured a scaled-down version of the project earlier at the Maker Faire Rome - a huge even showcasing innovative technology from all over the globe

Twitter is once again attempting to bring music by establishing a partnership with SoundCloud
Rumored first back in May
The new Twitter Audio Card allows users to discover and listen to music or audio in general
You will be able to listen to music while scrolling through your timeline
The Twitter Audio Card will be available to anyone that uses SoundCloud and will be able to easily share with followers
Work only with the official Twitter app, no third-party apps for Twitter

Click on the arrow and box icon on the upper right corner to the dock card
Return to timeline
Continue to tweet, view timeline, etc while playing music
Simply pull square image from right to left to close audio and continue browsing

After many months, European Union antitrust regulators on Friday (today) approved Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.
The outcome was no shock
Seven months prior Facebook shocked Silicon Valley by agreeing to pay a mass amount of money for the app with millions of uses
-They're predicted to get back very little in revenue
One month after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved

WhatsApp is associated with phone number while Facebook is an overall social network