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it's Thursday January 30th 2014 I'm Katie Drummond and as the science editor at the verge I'm often called upon to debunk the mysteries around the office can you look at this new magic trick I learned this is 90 seconds on the verge this is Facebook paper the company announced today a new standalone iPhone app that rethinks the Facebook newsfeed and forgoes virtually all buttons in lieu of swipe gestures and fullscreen content paper for iPhone launches this Monday in the US and it'll be ad free at least for now in the midst of a rough year Nintendo has promised to release smartphone apps not games just apps CEO Satoru Iwata announced that the first so called service apps will be arriving later this year he ruled out releasing any existing titles but the app developers are not expressly restricted from making new games or using the company's famous characters owada says Nintendo remains committed to gaming hardware and also teased a mysterious quote non wearable health product in the future and finally a Seinfeld reunion is coming very very soon as a guest on the radio show boomer and carton Seinfeld this week confirmed that he and Jason Alexander who were recently spotted at Tom's restaurant in New York were there filming a quote short ish reunion fans of Seinfeld will know of Tom's restaurant as the stand-in for monks cafe Seinfeld said the reunion was neither a commercial nor an episode of the web series comedians and cars getting coffee but he also said it was not not either of those things and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow in an effort to compete with ABC's new show selfie CBS develops the sitcom How i snapchatted Your Mother