Top Stories of the Day // January 9, 2015

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TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 9, 2015

ROMAIN DILLET And The Winner Of Hardware Battlefield 2015 Is… Voltera The competition was very fierce for the second edition of our Hardware Battlefield. 15 shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man... read more

KYLE RUSSELL Facebook Acquires QuickFire Networks, A ‘Pied Piper’ For Video read more

JOHN BIGGS Oku Warns You Before You Get The Pizza Face read more

RYAN LAWLER Breathometer’s Mint Can Tell You When Your Breath Stinks… And When You’re Dehydrated, Too Breathometer created a platform it could use to measure lots of different things through their breath. With that foundation, the company has announced its next... read more

SARAH BUHR Snowden Claims U.S. Policy Is Creating A Black Market For Digital Weapons read more

JOSH CONSTINE Zolt Is A Teeny-Tiny MacBook Charger read more

KYLE RUSSELL 4K TV Marketing At CES Is Depressingly Bad CES kind of feels like my own personal hell, in that it takes the coolest technology in the world and surrounds it with marketing gimmickry. I noticed this the... read more

TOP VIDEOS

BMW Shows Off Gesture Controls And Automated Parking  BMW is showing off a bunch of new or new-ish technologies this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las... read more

Ryan Seacrest Pitches His Mobile Keyboard Startup Typo  TV and radio star Ryan Seacrest was at the Consumer Electronics Show tonight to talk about Typo, the mobile... read more

The Parrot Pot And H2O Give You A Robotic Green Thumb  When you think of Parrot, chances are you are thinking about the A.R. Drone or its recently launched Bebop... read more

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