Top Stories of the Day // December 30, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Dec 30, 2014

MATT BURNS Watch The New Tesla Model S P85D Destroy The Old P85 In A Drag Race read more

JOSH CONSTINE Designers Are Ditching The Mouse For The “Flow” 3D Motion Touch Controller Sliders suck. "Little too far to the left. Ugh. Little too far to the right. ARRHGH!!!" The mouse can be a frustrating controller for Photoshop, Final Cut,... read more

ALEX WILHELM Microsoft Is Rumored To Be Building A New Browser That Is Not Internet Explorer Remember when Chrome was fast? Microsoft might, if ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley's recent report that the software company is building a lightweight browser, codenamed... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple Details A Modular Stylus That Can Capture Handwriting On Any Surface read more

CAT ZAKRZEWSKI Latest Snowden Revelations Expose Scope Of NSA Interceptions Over the weekend, German news outlet Spiegel published a story about the NSA's ability to crack encrypted forms of communication, exposing the agency's routine... read more

CATHERINE SHU Flurry Finds That Apple Devices And Phablets Scored Big On Christmas Flurry has released its annual Christmas report. Each year, the holiday sees the highest number of device activations and app installations as people open... read more

KYLE RUSSELL Google X’s Astro Teller Says Wearables Still Need A Killer App Back in November, I had a chance to visit Google’s Mountain View headquarters to chat with Astro Teller, the head of Google X’s so-called “moonshot”... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: Tattly Works With Artists And Designers To Create Sweet-Looking Temporary Tattoos  Thanks to Tattly, the Dumbo-based startup featured in our latest episode of Built in Brooklyn, you can adorn... read more

Built In Brooklyn: Farmigo Brings Local Produce To Schools, Offices, And Homes  Food startup Farmigo is a San Francisco transplant — like me. The company was initially based on the... read more

Hands On With The Blackberry Classic  It’s been a long time coming: Blackberry’s return to its roots. Rather than chasing the pack,... read more

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