| | Darrell Etherington Apple's new Mac Pro is a sight to behold: In black aluminum with an eye-catching cylindrical design, there's little chance you'll ever mistake it for any other... read more | | | Jon Evans I've spent the last week back in my wintry homeland in Canada, and here the scales have fallen from my eyes, and I have seen the light, and I have a message for... read more | | | Gregory Ferenstein | | | Derek Khanna In 1977, the first video rental store was launched, a 600-square foot store located in Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. George Atkinson, the entrepreneur who... read more | | | Alex Williams The kids woke up, the parents got called out of bed and for a few hours, shockingly, it looks like the family put down their mobiles on Christmas morning,... read more | | | Josh Constine Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound... read more | | | Pankaj Mishra | | | In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Accel Partners' Partner Ping Li joined me in the studio to talk about big data... read more | | | Perhaps best known for his definitive book about Facebook, David Kirkpatrick is one of tech's smartest and best... read more | | | There are a few extra special Christmas gifts that can't be wrapped and don't quite fit under the tree -- love,... read more | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |