Chris and Taylor talk about AT&T buying DirecTV, Microsoft partnering with Insteon, the Moto E being cheap and competent, the FCC and Net Neutrality and much more!
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Top News
- AT&T Is Buying DirecTV In A Deal Valued At Nearly $50 Billion, $67 Billion With Debt via BusinessInsider
- Microsoft gets into the home automation game with Insteon partnership via cnet
- Google buys the maker of Word Lens, the augmented reality translation app via ArsTechnica
Afterburner
- Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud via ReCode
- Twitch chooses Google over Microsoft amid multiple buyout offers via theVerge
- GoPro Files For $100M IPO With 2013 Revenue Of $985.7M, Up 87.4% From The Year Prior via TechCrunch
- Verizon doubles down on bandwidth and marketing for its ‘XLTE’ network via theVerge
- What Is Verizon XLTE? via PCMag
- Intel CEO: Delayed next-gen Broadwell CPUs will be here for holidays via ArsTechnica
- AT&T relaunches Cricket prepaid, kills off Aio brand via cnet
- Facebook adds naggy “ask” button to profile pages via ArsTechnica
- Apple releases OS X 10.9.3 with improved 4K support, restored USB sync via ArsTechnica
- Arduino gets bigger—and smaller—at Maker Faire via ArsTechnica
- Google Glass enters open beta, goes on sale to anyone in the US vi ArsTechnica
- Apple, Google settle smartphone patent litigation via Reuters
thEndUsr Stories
- Review: Motorola’s $129 Moto E is good and cheap (but mostly good) via ArsTechnica
- The world reacts to the FCC’s net neutrality vote via theVerge
- Cable TV prices went up four times the rate of inflation via ArsTechnica
- Top ISPs threaten to innovate less, spend less on network upgrades via ArsTechnica
- It’s not a “fast lane” but Comcast built a CDN to charge for video delivery via ArsTechnica
- Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft, and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality via theVerge
- Verizon, AT&T leaving landline phone networks to rot, complaint says via ArsTechnica
- New thermoset plastic is easily reduced to its source chemicals, recycled via ArsTechnica
Tip of the Week: The Most Important Security Settings to Change on Your Router via Lifehacker
App Pick: Send Anywhere Transfers Files Quickly and Securely Across Devices via Lifehacker
Kicker: Over 130 ft long, new sauropod may be the largest dinosaur yet discovered via ArsTechnica