Top Stories of the Day // December 13, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Dec 13, 2014

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefox If you're visiting any Yahoo property today, chances are you'll see an "Upgrade to the new Firefox" link in the top-right corner of your browser window. The... read more

GREG KUMPARAK This Guy Took 4 Leafblowers And A Skateboard Deck And Turned Them Into A Wonderfully Goofy Hoverboard read more

JON EVANS FoundationDB And The New NoSQL Databases are the spine of the tech industry: unsung, invisible, but critical–and beyond disastrous when they break or are deformed. This makes database... read more

KYLE RUSSELL Alienware Alpha Review: A Gaming PC In A Tiny Package Curious to see what life was like with an affordable Windows gaming PC in the form factor of a console, I bought the $799 Alienware Alpha early last week. read more

JOHN BIGGS The Founder’s Guide To Email Security With the horror of the Sony Pictures breach unfolding in slow motion before us, we are reminded that operational security - OpSec - is absolutely key at any... read more

ANNA ESCHER 13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week This week's tech news saw President Obama coding, the launch of the Samsung Gear VR, and Instagram surpassing Twitter in users. read more

SARAH BUHR Lindsay Lohan’s The Price Of Fame Mobile Game Hurt My Thumb read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: Wool&Prince Plans To Make Wool Shirts Cool For Young Professionals  utton-down shirts and T-shirts might not sound like a particularly exciting or sexy market, but men’s... read more

Gillmor Gang: Not Fade Away  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.05.14  Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today... read more

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