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it's Friday April 19th 2013 I'm Brian Bishop insert clever joke here this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by Virgin Mobile Boeing's Dreamliner nightmare may finally be coming to an end the Federal Aviation Administration has approved a set of design modifications that will make a plane safe for flight as part of the changes existing 787's will need new containment and venting systems for the planes lithium ion batteries the aircraft was granted by the agency in January after several incidents raised fire concerns assuming everything goes to plan the FAA will remove its grounding order next week Google's Eric Schmidt and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange met for a secret meeting in 2011 and now the whistleblowing site has released a transcript of that conversation for five hours the notoriously opinionated pair discussed a range of topics including Delta Airlines technology and the criticism that weak elites causes harm with the information it releases let's take a listen it's just a joke but you know I know you have been well tested I am very well tested I am very well behaved the rest of the conversation is available at WikiLeaks and finally Amazon has a new programming executive and it's you the company has posted the pilots for 14 different shows are created under the Amazon Studios name users can watch and then vote for their favorites the feedback will help determine which ones get full 13-episode orders the finalized shows we made available on Amazon Prime so the company hasn't said when it will make its programming decisions and those are today's top stories join us next week when I'll be paragliding up the top of the Empire State Building