Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 20, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 20, 2013

Tesla Model S Earns Highest Safety Rating Ever From US Agency

The Tesla Model S earned a 5-star safety rating, both overall and in each individual category, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).... read more

Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using "Insta" And "Gram"

Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word "Insta" or "GramG in their names, and it has begun sending emails to... read more

At This Rate, Nokia Will Be The Only Windows Phone OEM By The Holidays

The monthly Windows Phone report from the AdDuplex group is out for August, and is essentially a repeat of July's figures: The Lumia 520 is crushing other... read more

Wacom Reveals Cintiq Companion Windows 8 And Android Tablets, Intuos Pressure-Sensitive iPad Stylus

Wacom promised a standalone tablet solution earlier this year, to be revealed this summer, and now they're revealing not one, but two such devices. The new... read more

The iPhone 5C Isn't For The US; It's The iPhone For The Rest Of The World

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Google's Waze Acquisition Bears First Fruit As Mobile Google Maps App Gets Real-Time Incident Reports

Google acquired Waze and it seemed obvious the purchase was about making Maps better. Today, Maps did indeed get a little better thanks to an update to its... read more

Mailpile Is A Pro-Privacy, Open Source Webmail Project That's Raised ~$100,000 On Indiegogo

Mailpile is a relatively rare thing: a software project that looks certain to achieve its crowdfunding goal. The Mailpile Indiegogo campaign is less than $5,000... read more

Apple Patents 3D Gesture Control Via Hover-Based Input On Touchscreen Devices Like The iPad

Apple has had a new patent published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and it's one that details an extension of multi-touch input that would take gestures... read more

TiVo Launches New 'Roamio' Family Of DVRs, With Up To 6 Tuners, 3 TB Of Storage, & Out-Of-Home Streaming

TiVo is unveiling a whole new family of DVRs today with more tuners, more storage, and soon the ability to stream live and download pre-recorded video to mobile... read more

UK Govt. Destroyed Journalists' Hard Drives In Failed Attempt To Stop NSA Story

The plot thickens. British authorities reportedly destroyed hard drives in an attempt to stop the Guardian from disseminating stories about classified... read more

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