T-Mobile has announced on Facebook that the myTouch 4G Slide will be available in stores on July 27th. Pre-order will begin on July 19th. Specs of the phone are 1.2GHz processor, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, HTC Sense 3.0 UI, 3.7-inch WVGA SuperLCD display, and 800×480 pixel resolution, and 8-megapixel rear camera. [T-Mobile Facebook Page]

BuyWithMe is a daily deals service that is similar to Groupon and LivingSocial. BuyWithMe has recently acquired student rewards company Edhance. Edhance has one of the largest rewards program in the U.S. Edhance will help BuyWithMe provide merchants with customer return rates and ROI data that roots from the daily deals. Edhance has headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [MassHighTech]

Maxim Integrated Products Inc.(NASDAQ: MXIM) is a company that manufactures mixed-signal integrated circuits (analog circuits) for a large number of customers. The company is valued at $6.92 billion based on market cap. Maxim has acquired SensorDynamics for $164 million. SensorDynamics is a private semiconductor company that develops microelectromechanical solutions. [StreetInsider]

Move, Inc. (MOVE) is the parent company of Move.com and other real estate and finance websites. Move.com has acquired SocialBios. Socialbios is a social search startup company that allows individuals to to create a single online profile, similar to About.me.

The Pirate Bay is now home to more than 18,000 scientific papers, courtesy user Greg Maxwell, who had access to the files courtesy of academic database JSTOR. The torrent is a reaction to Aaron Swartz’s recent indictment for data theft from JSTOR and MIT. GigaOM reports that all of the documents’ copyrights have expired, but they are (or rather, were, prior to the torrent’s appearance) only available via JSTOR, and could cost as much as $19 per document.

Detroit Venture Partners has gained a fourth general partner, as NBA star Magic Johnson announced this morning that he is ready to invest in the “Detroit 2.0 movement.” The firm’s founders include Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, Josh Linkner and Brian Hermelin. Detroit Venture Partners was established in 2010 to invest in tech startups in Detroit, investments that benefit both the tech world and the city of Detroit. [TechCrunch]

MIT’s Backtalk project, now preparing for display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, asks the question “what if our devices kept talking back to us after we disposed of them?” and demonstrates visually where our abandoned tech goeswhen we leave it behind. The MIT SENSEable City Lab team used GPS tracking to trace the journey of discarded gadgets, from printer cartridges and batteries to cellphones and netbooks. The associate director of the lab, Assaf Biderman, calls the forgotten electronics “both a toxic liability and a potentially valuable resource.” The MoMA exhibit, which opens on the 24th of this month, will give consumers some idea of the future of the technology we own, and how we could handle tech we’re ready to abandon. [Engadget]

Twentieth Century Fox is now planning to offer Android users digital versions of their Blu-ray movies. The selection will begin with X-Men: First Class, and will be available later this year to the US, UK, France and Germany. TechCrunch reports that the digital download will come packaged with the Blu-ray, ready to be downloaded to a computer and then side-loaded to an Android device.