While houses of varying quality have been 3D-printed before, one contractor in Minnesota wants to build one such home by using a specially designed 3D printer that uses cement as a filament, without compromising on build quality or design, 3DPrint reports. Furthermore, the contractor’s aim isn’t to finish the house as fast as possible, but rather to 3D print it efficiently and securely.
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Is Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats a smart business move or have Tim Cook and company simply lost their minds? 9to5Mac has now posted a letter that Cook has just sent to Apple employees in which he gives his own explanation for why the deal happened and it raises even more questions than it answers.
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Microsoft may have disappointed certain Windows users when it decided not to unveil the Surface mini yet – although reports say that the device is still in the picture – but that doesn’t mean they won’t be able to purchase an affordable, small Windows 8.1 tablet this year. Toshiba has launched one such 8-inch device, the Toshiba Encore 2, which will sell for $199 and run a full version of Windows 8.1 rather than the RT alternative.
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Apple on Wednesday confirmed the deal that has puzzled every industry analyst on the planet for the past two weeks: Apple is buying Beats Electronics. News of the imminent acquisition broke earlier this month and was then independently confirmed by several large papers. What was never confirmed — or even really understood by anyone, it seemed — was exactly why Apple was buying Beats in what is reported to be the company’s largest-ever acquisition at $3 billion.
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Gadget owners who have to travel a lot have to deal with two pressing problems: charging all their devices on the go, and accessing various kind of files while away from home and the office. While many bags are able to safely carry electronic gadgets, the Colfax and Colfax PHD urban bags currently raising money on Kickstarter will also deal with power and storage issues on the go.
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If you haven’t had the chance to attend E3, we can tell you from first-hand experience that it’s a mess. A raucously fun mess, but a mess nonetheless. There’s nothing quite like sitting with a crowd of thousands of other gamers and being genuinely surprised by the big announcement that didn’t leak or stifling laughter when a demo bombs.
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Mac users looking to get around faster while dealing with various popular online services and apps including Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WordPress, Pocket, Feedly, Google+, Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify, Soundcloud and Tumbler should check out BufferApp‘s extensive list of keyboard shortcuts for OS X devices, which offers users more than 111 shortcuts for these online tools.
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Now is a good time to make sure all the data on your iPhone is backed up in the cloud. CBS Los Angeles reports that the huge iOS ransomware scam that first popped up in Australia on Tuesday has now made its way to the United States. Hackers have figured out a way to exploit the Find My iPhone feature in iOS to lock up users’ iPhones and iPads and demand a ransom from them if they ever want to use their devices again
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Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is not going to be the last jaw-dropping deal in the mobile app industry. If you’re looking for reasons why, search no further than Mary Meeker’s epic, 164-slide “Internet Trends” mammoth presentation.
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Six weeks after the official launch of the Galaxy S5, the mobile community still hasn’t managed to root the Verizon or AT&T models of the phone. Although subscribers from other carriers have been able to root their phones ever since launch day, root access has eluded subscribers of the two biggest phone carriers in the United States. The community has gotten so desperate that they’ve set up a bounty on the XDA Developers forum which currently amounts to just under $18,000 for the first person who can root the phone.
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