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19 tech facts to blow your mind

1. If airplanes shrunk and grew more efficient at the same rate that a computer processor did, then people could travel from Tokyo to New York in 2 minutes, and the plane would be the size of a sheet of paper. 2. Bill Gates' House was built using architecture from a Mac computer 3. The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only keys on the top row of the keyboard 4. More people in the world have a phone than a toothbrush (4 billion to 3.5 billion) 5. HP (Hewlett-Packard), Microsoft, and Apple were all started in a garage 6. The world's first telephone call took place in 1988 7. 1,000,000,000 (1 Billion) things are searched 8. 97 percent of all emails are sorted as spam 9. Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1997 was the first presidential inauguration to broadcast publicly over the internet 10. Thomas Edison published 1093 patents in the course of his lifetime -- an unsurpassed record! 11. The first message sent by telegraph in 1901 contained only
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3D printing advances in 2018

Up until around 2015, 3D printing was a novelty. A fun, cool toy that could be used to build nice little things out of plastic. However, it didn't have much commercial potential, as it was expensive, both in material and the printer itself. It was also very slow, taking up to seventeen hours to make a single 3cm cube. As of now, a company called  Markforged  has recently begun mass - manufacturing 3D printers for commercial and factory use. This idea has been theorized for a long time, but this is the first example of when it has been really taking off. Their latest product is a metal 3D printer, a highly inconceivable concept until a couple of years ago. It has a price tag of just under $100,000, but is expected to get cheaper as it moves past the alpha prototype stage. It works by laying a layer of metal dust, then blasting it with a laser so that it melts onto the previous layer of metal, or the base of the 3D printer. The uses for this invention are practically endless, because
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