Monday, August 26, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 26, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 26, 2013

Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google

July 25, 2023 -- Local transportation and delivery giant Uber announced its biggest bet on autonomous vehicles yet, saying it would purchase 2,500 driverless... read more

Microsoft's Next Era

Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry.... read more

This Is Why You Don't Need A New Phone

Network World has an excellent pictorial slideshow that shows us just how ridiculous our neophilia has gotten. While it's weak sauce coming from a site that... read more

When Apple Did Color Because It Was Delicious, Exciting, And Human

You know what they say about trends: wait five years and they'll swing back around again. With confirmation that a a gold iPhone 5s will indeed break onto the... read more

Kickstarter Project Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs

GIFs have remained so ubiquitous, spawning legions of apps, memes and NSFW Tumblrs, that it can be surprising to remember the bitmap image format is more than... read more

Google Just Killed The Best Thing About The Chromecast (For Now)

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The Board Of The Borg

On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 numbers and I wanted to see what they... read more

Backed By $3 Million In Funding, Canva Launches A Graphic Design Platform Anyone Can Use

A company called Canva is today launching what it hopes will become the default tool people use to create and collaborate on design online. The service, which... read more

Vogue And The Tech Hard Sell

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Apple Wants To Use The iPhone To Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Russia

With all eyes focused on what new iPhone handsets Apple may be launching very soon -- if reports are to be believed, two new models, and a new color, on... read more

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