Top Stories of the Day // November 12, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Nov 12, 2014

JORDAN CROOK Android User Takes Apple To Federal Court Over Undelivered Text Messages Apple will soon face a federal lawsuit brought on by a woman named Adrienne Moore, who, like many former iPhone users who have switched to Android, is upset... read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Microsoft Launches Free, Unrestricted Version Of Visual Studio For Small Teams Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has... read more

NATASHA LOMAS Follow The Rosetta Space Mission To Land On A Comet The European Space Agency is in the midst of attempting a first of its kind space mission: to land a probe on a comet. You can follow the lander's progress via... read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Microsoft Takes .NET Open Source And Cross-Platform For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts to take many... read more

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ALEX WILHELM, RON MILLER Should Microsoft Build Hardware? So what’s this new Microsoft strategy you’ve been hearing about? According to CEO Satya Nadella, the company is three things: Office 365, Windows and... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Flux’s 3D Printer Is Also A Scanner, Laser Engraver And More Thanks to A Modular Design read more

NATASHA LOMAS Amazon Is Expanding Its R&D In Cambridge, U.K., With A Focus On Prime Air Drones And Speech Tech Amazon is expanding its R&D operations in Cambridge, U.K., with a plan to staff out a large research lab -- expanding on the foothold it acquired when it... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CubeSensors Will Now Monitor Your Sleeping Environment CubeSensors is a startup that makes small, pretty stylish, connected devices that monitor rooms, feeding back information... read more

Aeromobil Is A Flying Car With A Top Speed of 124 MPH… On Land At the recent 2014 Pioneers Festival in Vienna, we caught up with the founders of Aeromobil, Stefan Klein and Juraj... read more

Pact Aims To Take The Freshest Coffee Imaginable Direct To Your Door Starting in October 2012 in his kitchen, Stephen Rapoport, founder of Pact Coffee, decided to create a new kind... read more

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