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these are the top stories of the week Microsoft's phone woes Twitter changes are coming officially and everything else you need to know microsoft announced it is streamlining its smartphone hardware business that really means the company is cutting 1,850 jobs 1350 are in Finland also known as jobs from the nokia handset acquisition microsoft will take a 950 million dollar charge related to these cuts microsoft acquired nokia's handset business for 7.2 billion dollars in 2014 so is Microsoft done with a smartphone world the memo from Microsoft EVP of the windows and devices group Terry Myerson said we're scaling back but we're not out okay it's official Twitter changes are coming twitter has held a 140-character limit on much of its service soon photos videos polls and more will not couch towards that limit and when you reply that other person's Twitter handle won't count in the 140 character limit additionally you'll be able to quote or retweet your own tweets what else is new you'll no longer have to put a dot before a twitter handle to share reply if you reply it'll be seen by all of your twitter followers these changes will be available in the coming months it says twitter foxconn just replaced 60,000 humans with robots Foxconn manufactures products for a number of companies including Samsung and Apple the company says this won't replace human jobs in the long run 50,000 humans still work at Foxconn some of the biggest stories this week weren't actually confirmed so let's take a look at a rumor filled rapid-fire Apple thought about buying time warner according to a report by the Financial Times Eddy Cue pitched purchasing time warner owner of properties like Warner Brothers and HBO last year the talks didn't reach past preliminary discussions and never reached Tim Cook rumors are swirling that Microsoft will introduce new versions of the xbox one would be a video streaming stick another would be a more powerful version of the xbox one some of this may be cleared up at June's III conference analyst ming-chi kuo of KGI securities says the macbook pro will see a big redesign in the fourth quarter of this year the function buttons above the number we'll get the boot instead an oled touch panel would replace them the analysts also said new macbook pros would feature touch ID and this next piece of news is not a rumor a US Court says that google's use of Oracle's technology in Android is protected by fair use what does that mean Google doesn't oo Oracle a sense but Oracle says it's going to appeal the decision surprise surprise now you're all caught up in sec to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet com / update for a week the dose hit up cnet com / radar I'm Maya's Akhtar signing off