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it's Monday July 2nd 2012 I'm Nilay Patel and you and me we're gonna spend 90 seconds on the verge Sony is now a cloud gaming company this morning the company announced its purchase sky high for 380 million dollars Sony isn't being shy about its intentions for the company saying in a press release that have plans to stream both casual and more hardcore titles to quote a variety of Internet connected devices it's an enormous shift in the games industry away from the console model and we'll see if the next PlayStation is more than just a piece of hardware a group of prominent internet activists including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and cheeseburger CEO Ben ha are celebrating the 4th of July a little bit early today they've issued the Declaration of Internet freedom the broadly worded document breaks down into just five main principles expression access openness innovation and privacy it's simple but that's the point the group hopes the document provides a common foundation for us all to agree on before we move on to bribing Congress I mean lobbying Congress Microsoft today not suppressing for Windows 8 Pro upgrades if you currently have a Windows 7 Vista or XP machine it'll cost $40 online or $70 in store to get the upgrade it's a much better deal than what Microsoft offered for Windows 7 which costs between $119 and $219 to launch the promotion only lasts until January 31st next year and only applies to those upgrading if you're building a PC or you're just lazy you can expect to write a much larger Trek directly to Steve Ballmer on Valentine's Day that's it for a minute and a half tune in tomorrow for our in-depth report on six-dimensional retinal scanners copyright conundrum or patent possibility