Top Stories of the Day // December 2, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Dec 2, 2014

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple Patents An iPhone Drop Protection Mechanism That Changes Device Angle In Freefall read more

JOHN BIGGS New ATM Skimmers Connect To The Card Reader Via A Nearly Invisible Hole read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Firefox 34 Launches With Yahoo As Its Default Search Engine Mozilla today rolled out Firefox 34. While most browser updates these days aren't all that exciting, this one includes a couple of interesting new features.... read more

GREG KUMPARAK Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of Clip Art There are many things that the next generation of geek won't get to experience. The sound of the 56k modem connecting when your parents are sleeping in the... read more

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JORDAN CROOK Bumble Is Exactly Like Tinder Except Girls Are In Charge Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Whitney Wolfe and a group of other former Tinder employees are launching a new Tinder competitor called Bumble. This... read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies around and CoreOS, a Linux-based operating system for very large server deployments, built its service... read more

JON RUSSELL, STEVE O'HEAR Rocket Internet’s Helpling Mops Up $17M For Its Cleaners-On-Demand Service Helpling, the Rocket Internet-backed cleaner-on-demand service, has tidied in a nice little sum of its own after announcing $17 million in fresh funding.... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: Atavist Is Both Publisher And Platform For Online Storytelling  We returned to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood for the latest episode of Built in Brooklyn. This time... read more

Gillmor Gang: Basement Tape  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.28.14  Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has... read more

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