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Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown — Apple Watch Teardown — Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
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Apple Begins Offering Virtual “Personal Setup” Appointments To New Watch Owners — As a number of early customers will receive their Apple Watch smartwatches today, Apple has also begun to send out email invitations offering “personal setup” appointments that take place via video sessions with an Apple Specialist.
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Starwood Hotels debuts Apple Watch app for keyless entry at over 100 locations — Your Apple Watch can now open your hotel room door at over 100 Starwood Hotels — Starwood Hotels has allowed guests to use their iPhone as their room key since last November, and today announced that guests … | Comcast Corporation: |
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement — Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated — Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
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Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ — Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable — Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable … | Jonathan Mahler / New York Times: |
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Italian eyewear maker Luxottica working with Google on cheaper version of Glass coming soon — Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says — A new version of Google Glass is in the works and will be out soon, the Chief Executive Officer of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica said Friday.
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How crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky brought money-losing inventions to market and ultimately cut a third of its staff — How the invention factory at Quirky almost imagined its way out of business — In February of this year, the staff of the New York startup Quirky gathered …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The history of YouTube and how Google overcame legal, financial, and technological problems to build a site that has almost 50 years of video uploaded daily — Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube — Leading the Web video revolution was an almost constant battle for survival.
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Chipotle partners with Postmates to offer delivery in 67 US cities for $4.99 to $7.99 — Chipotle Signs Deal With Food Delivery Start-Up Postmates — In the age of the on-demand economy, sooner or later everything is just a few taps of a smartphone app away. Even burritos.
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Tests reveal Snapdragon 810 runs hot and throttles early and severely, causing performance issues — In-depth with the Snapdragon 810's heat problems — This is a hot chip that throttles early and often, and it makes a difference. — If you're using a relatively recent, non-Apple …
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Sources: BitTorrent laid off about 40 of their 150 domestic employees — Big Layoffs At BitTorrent — The company behind the revolutionary file-sharing protocol sacks dozens of employees. — Wikimedia Commons — They're swinging the axe over at BitTorrent.
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Apple wins appeal in China over patent rights to Siri voice recognition software — Apple wins patent appeal in China — Companies: — RELATED QUOTES — SymbolPriceChange — 130.2179 — +0.5479 — Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) has won an appeal in China over patent rights …
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