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April 24, 2015, 3:10 PM

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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.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
iFixit:
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 …
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
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 …
Manuela Mesco / Wall Street Journal:
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.
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.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
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 …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
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 …
BuzzFeed:
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.
JP Mangalindan / Mashable:
Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more  —  Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub  —  Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.
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