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it's friday august 3rd 2012 I'm post modern fashion consultant adi robertson and this is 90 seconds on the verge microsoft is killing off metro at least a name the tile and typography based style has unified the look and feel of microsoft's properties from the xbox 360 to Windows Phone and Windows 8 a replacement term will be decided on by the end of this week in the meantime the user interface will be called quote windows 8 style you I whatever the new name is it can't be any worse Apple executives Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall took to the sand today in the ongoing apple vs samsung trial Schiller said he reacted with shock after seeing the original Galaxy Tab and galaxy s meanwhile forestall was questioned about a number of emails that Samsung's lawyers hope would show that Apple was all the wild copying Samsung one email in particular said that Steve Jobs was receptive to a seven inch iPad that sound you hear is the rumor mill working overtime for the weekend speaking of copycats Electronic Arts has filed a lawsuit against rival Zynga alleging that the company poached executives and blatantly copied the sim social when making the ville this isn't the first time Zynga have been accused of copying its rivals but EA is probably the most well financed studio to take on the social giant hey at least this gives Inga's lawyers something to distract them from the whole insider trading thing and finally NASA is outsourcing the creation of the next space shuttle the agency is pledging 1.1 billion dollars total for Boeing SpaceX and the Sierra Nevada corporation's the ultimate goal is to send astronauts from American soil to the International Space Station in the next five years that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow when we'll bring you the premiere of life on Mars live from Mars