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it's Thursday every 28 2013 I'm Nilay Patel and I'm in a glass cage please send help this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by motorola bradley manning has pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to Wikileaks the US Army private was a source behind the release of various intelligent memos detainee files and video and now faces up to 20 years in prison for his actions however Manning also pleaded not guilty to 12 additional charges including aiding the enemy reading from a statement Manning said quote I felt I accomplished something that would allow me to have a clear conscience google owns motorola mobility that doesn't mean it's in love with the company's products Google CFO Patrick Pichette said today that the company inherited an 18-month pipeline of products when it acquired motorola and described the devices as quote fine but not really to the standards that what Google would say is wow so when will we see some wow were thee devices from Motorola who will acquire the company in May of 2012 that's about nine months ago so soon it should be soon I think it's in and lastly pope benedict the sixteen has left Twitter today the pontiff thanked his supporters with one final tweet from the @pontifex account before formally stepping down from his post the Vatican has since deleted all the Pope's tweets and archive them off site leaving a clean slate on the Pontifex account should the presumably young hip new pope also want to tweet instead of using say snapchat that's it for today's top stories stay tuned for an important announcement from your local affiliate