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June 23, 2014, 1:50 PM

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iFixit:

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Teardown — It has finally come: Microsoft's all-new Surface Pro 3—all-new in the sense that it's third in a trilogy of devices. Where the second was actually just a rehashing of the original, the third is showing some promise of striking out on its own. Good for you, Surface Pro 3!

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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Surface Pro 3 review: better than predecessors, software now needs more help than hardware

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Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

13 Google Glass frames and shades by Diane Von Furstenberg go on sale for $225 and $120 — First Look: All 13 Diane Von Furstenberg Google Glass Frames are Now On Sale — As promised, the “DVF for Glass” series of Google Glass frames and shades is now on sale to the general public.

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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google Glass finally arrives in the UK, the first country outside the US

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July — Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.

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Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Microsoft giving away 15GB of OneDrive storage, 1TB for Office 365 users — More free storage? Lower prices? It's all good news from Microsoft today: The company just announced that it will begin offering 15GB of free storage to OneDrive users, up from 7GB.

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Wall Street Journal:

Oracle Agrees to Buy Micros Systems for $5.3 Billion — Oracle Corp. agreed to buy Micros Systems Inc. for about $5.3 billion. — The deal is the biggest for Oracle, a serial acquirer, since its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010. — Micros sells software used by retailers and hospitality providers.

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

“Free” Wi-Fi from Xfinity and AT&T also frees you to be hacked — Ars tests how easy it is to spoof big broadband providers to grab data. — If you've traveled and tried to get on the Internet, you've probably seen some pretty suspicious looking Wi-Fi networks with names like “Free Wi-Fi” and “Totally Free Internet.”

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Julianne Pepitone / NBC News:

Why ISIS' Social Media Campaign is ‘Even More Brutal’ Than Most — With a reported $2 billion war chest, ISIS is unusually well funded. Its relatively large force of 10,000 relies on more foreign fighters than most. And, perhaps most infamously, the group is too extreme even for Al-Qaeda.

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James Temple / Re/code:

Bill Maris, the Man Behind Google Ventures, Wants to Redefine Silicon Valley Economics — Bill Maris is unimpressed with the mechanics of Silicon Valley venture capital. — He sees a lot of short bets on incremental advances and copycat apps. He thinks partners get paid for putting money to work — not for making ambitious bets.

Tweets: @paulsingh

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE — Nightly Firefox builds can develop, deploy, and debug apps all in the browser. — Browsers have long contained development tools to help debug and diagnose problems when authoring Web content, but Mozilla is taking Firefox to the next level.

More: Mozilla Hacks, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, OStatic blogs, The Tech Report and The Register

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Uber blocking secondary stock sales, has recently offered early shareholders buybacks at a price pegged to sub-$4B valuation — Uber plays hardball with early shareholders — Uber is very valuable. But there's only one way to sell its stock. Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @karaswisher, @rx, @eringriffith, @sbyrnes and @eringriffith

Eliana Dockterman / TIME:

Google launches Made With Code website in $50M effort to get girls interested in coding — Google Invests $50 Million to Close the Tech Gender Gap — Imagine If Half of All Tech Inventions and Startups Came From Women — ‘Entrepreneur’ Barbie Heads for Silicon Valley With Some Glam Accessories

More: The Official Google Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable, Chelsea Clinton, memeburn, USA Today, CNET, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Engadget

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Whisper partners with Fusion to integrate posts into the network's digital and TV platforms — Whisper Lands Broadcast Partnership With Fusion (Exclusive) — Fusion will integrate Whisper posts into its TV broadcasts. — Anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper is making its television debut.

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