3D printing gives blind parents a chance to feel baby before he’s born

“Wow! Technology is making it easier for blind parents to get to know their unborn child through 3D printing. A new Brazilian company has made it possible to print plastic models of what your child looks like based on sonogram imaging.”

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Facebook Buys Messaging App WhatsApp for $19 Billion – Report, Details

“That’s 19 times of what they paid for the popular Image sharing website Instagram. Yes, Facebook bought the very popular chat app WhatsApp for a whooping sum of $19 billion.”

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Yandex Offers Fee-Free Android Firmware Kit So OEMs Can Ditch Google Services

“Continuing to diversify beyond search, Russian tech giant Yandex has today launched a complete firmware kit for Android smartphones — called Yandex.Kit — that offers an alternative suite of Yandex services for OEMs and carriers wanting to try their hand at going it alone without Google.”

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Samsung Mentions Next Galaxy Smartphone ‘Expected Later This Month’ While Talking Up Improved LED Flash Modules

“While certain manufacturers are removing LED flashes from high-end smartphones (we’re looking at you, Sony) Samsung is improving theirs.”

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Samsung lays out which devices will get Android 4.4.2 KitKat

“Galaxy Note 3 Galaxy Note II Galaxy S4 Galaxy S4 mini Galaxy S4 Active Galaxy S4 zoom Galaxy S III Galaxy S III mini Galaxy Mega Galaxy Light Galaxy Note 8.0 Galaxy Tab 3 Galaxy Note 10.1 Galaxy Note 10.”

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Google Cast SDK Gets Final Release As Play Services 4.2 Is Rolled Out To All Devices – Prepare For The Flood Of Chromecast Apps

“Google announced the final version of the Google Cast SDK and Play Services 4.2 early this month, but it wasn’t quite ready for the public. Developers were asked by Google to hold off until the new services framework was finalized, and today is the big day – it’s open season on the Chromecast.”

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Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed

“alphadogg writes “Pressure on the cellphone industry to introduce technology that could disable stolen smartphones has intensified with the introduction of proposed federal legislation that would mandate such a system. Senate bill 2032, ‘The Smartphone Prevention Act,’ was introduced to the U.S.”

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Apple Describes Disposable Email Solution to Combat Spam in New Patent Application

“The patent, originally filed for in 2012, describes an email system that would allow users to create temporary, disposable email addresses linked to a permanent email account.”

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