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it's Tuesday March 5th 2013 i'm dan seifert and I control the horizontal and the vertical this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by motorola government officials are investigating claims that a drone was spotted today over brooklyn new york a pilot for alitalia was preparing to land at JFK Airport when he spotted an unmanned aircraft the drone reportedly had four propellers and came within 200 feet of his jet the incident occurred in an altitude of over 1,500 feet far beyond the limit for hobbyist planes other pilots didn't spot the aircraft so it's not clear exactly what the pilot saw but the FBI and FAA are investigating nonetheless sports reporters can now shake off the Twitter tyranny of the NCAA the organization responsible for rules regulations and constantly questioned sanctions and us college sports has backtracked on its social media policy the NCAA has limited the number of times reporters could post to social networks during championship games the goal was to prevent them from producing a quote real-time description of the event why the change the NCAA realized that frequent tweeting would encourage people to you know actually turn on games and watch them shocking and finally the iphone almost wasn't the iphone at a recent event former apple advertising collaborator 10 siegel revealed the number of scrapped names for the device riffing on the company's iconic music player both telepods and tripod were considered as well as moby and the ipad name itself that's right telepods yeah I'm just going to let that speak for itself and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow the top 12 techniques for tilt shifting your molecular photography