Top Stories of the Day // January 15, 2015

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TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 15, 2015

GREG KUMPARAK This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type "Whose phone charger is that sticking out of the wall? Oh. It must be Ben's. Ben always leaves his charger at work. Classic Ben!" Alas, it's not Ben's... read more

ALEXIA TSOTSIS An Actual Teen Wrote About Apps, And You’ll Never Believe How Many Pageviews It Got To kick off the new year, University of Austin sophomore Andrew Watts decided to write an essay about his thoughts on social apps, which was meant just for... read more

JON RUSSELL Xiaomi Launches Mi Note Phablet To Fight The iPhone 6 Plus Xiaomi, the Chinese company that recently became the world’s most valuable startup (depending on your definition of startup), took the wraps off its latest... read more

SARAH BUHR Smart Helmet Maker Skully Has Raised Another $1.5 Million Last summer, Skully, the motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display, became the fourth-most popular Indiegogo campaign in history. According to an SEC filing,... read more

SARAH BUHR 8 Smart Kitchen Gadgets Of The Future The Internet of Things has entered the kitchen space. Everything from an app to turn on your coffee maker to a pan that monitors heat on your iPhone to cook the... read more

COLLEEN TAYLOR Kevin Rose Leaves Google Ventures To Work Full-Time On His Startup North read more

RON MILLER Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Facebook at Work today, but will businesses actually want to use it?... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: HappyFunCorp Helps Startups Build New Products  For the tenth and final episode of Built in Brooklyn, we tried to do something a little different —... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE  Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor.... read more

PicoBrew Automates Home Beer Brewing (And It’s A Great Excuse For CES Day Drinking)  If you’re a fan of craft beer, you might be tempted to try homebrewing — if only it wasn’t... read more

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