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it's Thursday October fourth 2012 I'm Nilay Patel and this will be 90 anger free seconds on the verge Microsoft today sent invites out to not one but two events at the end of October the first is October 25th in New York to celebrate the launch of windows 8 and the surface tablet then just days later on October 29th the company is promising new details on Windows Phone 8 at an event in San Francisco that's good timing the first windows phone 8 devices are set to launch in early November speaking of which Nokia's Lumia 920 finally has a confirmed US carrier 18t that's the good news the bad news is that ATT will be the only carrier partner at launch the 920 is coming in November along with mid-range Lumia 820 it will directly compete with HTC's Windows Phone 8x which will be on several carriers and yes the Lumia 920 will be available in cyan but only if you order it online facebook is now 1 billion strong CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network now has 1 billion active users he additionally revealed that there have been over one trillion likes and 219 billion photo uploads give me your hands if we be facebook friends Zuckerberg shall restore amends finally years of war and jazz Jackrabbit designer Cliff Bleszinski his left Epic Games in a statement on the developers website the man also known as cliffy B said it was time for much-needed break as he charged the next stage of his career when asked about the news clips brother and vox media co-founder tyler Bleszinski said quote please stop bothering me that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow and big word we here to ask both presidential candidates a series of increasingly angry questions about friendship net neutrality