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June 23, 2014, 4:55 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!

More: The Register, Business Insider, Gizmodo, PC World, BetaNews, Inquirer, Technologizer, Engadget, Windows Phone Central, CNET, WinBeta, ZDNet, Neowin, Geek.com, HotHardware.com News, Electronista and GSMArena Blog

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Surface Pro 3 review: better than predecessors, software now needs more help than hardware — Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review — I can't believe it's only been sixteen months since I published our review of the original Microsoft Surface Pro. It feels like longer but that's likely …

Tweets: @whatthebit

Ron / WinBeta:

Microsoft wants you to buy a Surface Pro 3, offers up to $650 in Store credit for your old MacBook Air — Microsoft has been touting the Surface Pro 3 as the tablet that can replace your laptop. Microsoft has even compared the Surface Pro 3 with the Apple MacBook Air, during the Surface Pro 3 reveal in May.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, GeekWire, MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Neowin and Electronista. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@refsrc

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google begins testing a domain registration service — Google today revealed that it is building a domain registration service called Google Domains. The product is still an early work in progress, so it's in invite-only beta for now. — Google's small business-facing division decided …

More: TechCrunch, Joel Arellano, DomainIncite, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, SlashGear and Android Central

Mike Billings / Wall Street Journal:

San Francisco sends cease-and-desist letter to MonkeyParking, warns similar parking services — San Francisco Tells Parking Startup to Stop Operations, Warns Two Others — Several parking startups that want to make it easier to find a parking spot in busy cities are facing a legal gauntlet …

More: PR Newswire, Wired, Engadget, Gigaom, ReadWrite, City Insider, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, Ubergizmo, San Francisco Chronicle and The Snitch

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google Glass finally arrives in the UK, the first country outside the US — Google Glass, the head-mounted wearable computer unveiled more than two years ago, is finally available outside the US. After appearing in a support page linked to hardware availability, Google has launched the long-awaited device in the UK.

More: Engadget, Marketing Land, BBC, CNET, Android Police, Google Glass, TechHive, PC World, Glass Almanac, Telegraph, The Verge, Gigaom, Droid Life, CNET, Android Central and Valleywag

Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

13 Google Glass frames and shades by Diane Von Furstenberg go on sale for $225 and $120

More: Gigaom, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, The Register, 9to5Google, Slate, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, PC Magazine and The Verge

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Sprint and Samsung announce fitness-focused Galaxy S5 Sport, coming July 25 — Sprint and Samsung have just announced the Galaxy S5 Sport. Similar to the Galaxy S5 Active, available on AT&T, the Galaxy S5 Sport is IP67 water and dust resistance and has a textured casing to give it a more rugged and sturdy feel.

More: Sprint, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, TWICE, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Phandroid and Android Police

Mike Dano / FierceWireless:

Sprint counters T-Mobile's iPhone test drive by reviving 30-day ‘satisfaction guarantee’

More: Sprint, Wireless Week, Android Central, Droid Life, Android and Me and AndroidGuys

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

How Marissa Mayer Fell Asleep and Kept Ad Executives Waiting For Hours … For media companies, the Cannes advertising festival is all about getting face time with top media buyers and advertisers. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer missed a golden opportunity to do just that last week.

More: Business Insider and Valleywag. Tweets: @evelynrusli, @dmac1 and @danprimack

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Brings Free, Ad-Supported TV Episodes To iOS, Plus HBO Content — Amazon may have denied earlier reports that it would launch a free, advertising-supported TV and music video service, as a departure from Prime Instant Video, but it has at least begun dipping its toe in to the waters of ad-supported TV, it seems.

More: 9to5Mac, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, TUAW, Cult of Mac, The Next Web and iMore

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.

More: OneDrive Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Technologizer, VentureBeat, SuperSite for Windows, The Verge, InfoWorld, TechNet Blogs, Geek Beat, ZDNet, The Next Web, GeekWire and ReadWrite

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.”

More: The Register, Consumerist and We Live Security

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.

More: Oracle, ZDNet, MICROS Systems, Inc., InfoWorld, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, New York Times, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Reuters, DailyFinance.com and ABC News

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Report: Sundar Pichai put Nest's Tony Fadell in charge of Google's consumer hardware roadmap — The man who built Apple's iPod is now running Google's hardware future — Google's acquisition of Nest wasn't finalized all that long ago, but it seems that CEO Tony Fadell is already making his way into Mountain View's highest ranks.

More: The Information, 9to5Google, Gizmodo and Android Central. Tweets: @amir

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.

More: Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Mashable, SlashGear, The NextMarket Blog, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Forbes, PandoDaily, Zatz Not Funny!, The Verge, TechHive and App Advice

Tweets: @pmarca, @pmarca, @pmarca, @benkaufman, @johnmaeda, @thewinkapp, @jjcolao, @benkaufman, @sub8u, @msquinn, @pmarca and @pmarca

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, The Register and San Francisco Chronicle

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.

More: BBC, Channel 4, VICE News, Telegraph and ctvnews.ca

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Cruise Automation previews $10,000 highway autopilot kit for specific Audi models — Tiny Startup Cruise Beats Google to Offer Self-Driving Car Tech to Consumers (Video) — Neither Google nor the big car manufacturers will likely be the first to put the keys to self-driving car technology in consumers' hands.

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Connectedly, Brad Ideas and Yahoo Tech

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @sama and @alexismadrigal

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

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