Top Stories of the Day // January 27, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 27, 2015

JON RUSSELL Facebook And Instagram Go Offline, Taking Facebook Log-In Services Down Too [Now Back] Gather yourselves, important news incoming... both Facebook and Instagram are down right now.read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Former Opera CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Browser For Power Users Opera's former CEO Jon von Tetzchner is launching the first preview of Vivaldi today, a new Chromium-based browser that is squarely aimed at power users.... read more

KYLE RUSSELL Lockitron Announces The $99 Bolt, A Deadbolt You Can Unlock With Your Phone Y Combinator alum Lockitron is today launching the Bolt, a $99 follow-up to its original crowdfunded keyless-entry gadget. read more

JORDAN CROOK Snapchat Launches Discover read more

KYLE RUSSELL The Case That Turns Your Phone Into A Polaroid Camera Is Now On Kickstarter The Prynt case, which lets you print photos directly from your phone, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter. read more

ALEX WILHELM Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue read more

ALEX WILHELM Here’s What You Need To Know From Microsoft’s $26B Quarter Microsoft reported its fiscal second-quarter financial performance today, laid out its forecasts for its future performance and took questions from a number of... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Luna’s Smart Mattress Cover Can Help You Sleep Better  Luna co-founder Matteo Franceschetti presents a pretty appealing vision of what it can be like to go to bed:... read more

Gillmor Gang: HoloCraft  The Gillmor Gang — Benedict Evans, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics... read more

CrunchWeek: Box’s IPO Pop, Microsoft’s HoloLens Headset, Google’s $1 Billion Bet On SpaceX  We’re at the end of another big week for the tech industry, so Alex Wilhelm, Kyle Russell and I gathered... read more

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