Meet the designers printing homes out of salt and clay

Learn our interview with Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, the disruptive designers 3D-printing complete buildings out of pure supplies. Try the wonderful photos within the full story, which is from the newest version of our print journal. To get future points, join for a subscription.

The must-reads

I’ve combed the web to seek out you at the moment’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.

1 China is struggling to deal with the sheer quantity of covid deaths
Satellite tv for pc imagery suggests crematoriums and funeral parlors are overwhelmed. (WP $)
+ Infections are prone to climb additional as China celebrates the Lunar New Yr. (Wired $)

2 The US is underneath strain to expel Jair Bolsonaro
The previous Brazilian president has been accused of whipping up home terrorism. (FT $) 
+ Fb and YouTube say they’re taking down footage of the riots (Reuters)
+ Priceless work have been destroyed within the carnage. (The Guardian)

3 Microsoft’s new AI can simulate voices from simply three seconds of audio
Spookily, VALL-E is reportedly adept at preserving the speaker’s tone. (Ars Technica)
+ Microsoft is weighing up investing $10 billion into OpenAI. (Semafor)
+ DALL-E-esque AI fashions are creating new proteins. (NYT $)

4 The EU desires to control your favourite AI instruments
That’ll be simpler mentioned than finished, although. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

5 The UK’s first house mission try was a moist squib
Virgin Orbit’s rocket carrying the primary satellites to launch from Britain failed to succeed in altitude. (Bloomberg $)
+ An “anomaly” was accountable, apparently. (New Scientist $)
+ The group that gathered to look at the launch nonetheless had a good time, although. (Reuters)

6 What abortion capsules signify in a post-Roe world
Anti-abortion advocates are extra decided than ever—however so are their opponents. (Vox)
+ The cognitive dissonance of watching the tip of Roe unfold on-line. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

7 What’s cancel tradition with out Twitter? 
If Twitter dies, there’s no apparent substitute for airing grievances. (The Atlantic $)
+ We’re witnessing the mind loss of life of Twitter. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)