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it's friday january 18 2013 i'm david pierce part of the stealthy internet oligarchy that rides into battle on a poptart cat hybrid that poops rainbows this is 90 seconds on the verge presented by for the TSA is pulling the plug on so-called naked x-ray scanners manufacturer OSI systems couldn't guarantee privacy which is to say it couldn't promise less revealing passenger images the TSA has already begun to remove backscatter scanners from airports opting to replace them with the less awkward millimeter-wave scanners beginning late last year speaking of lasers the mona lisa has taken a ride from the earth to the movie nASA has just completed a successful test of long-distance laser communication by beaming da Vinci's masterpiece from Maryland to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter some 240,000 miles away at 300 bits per second it wasn't exactly the fastest transmission but hey give them some credit for the distance went to the freaking moon and up next spider gifts on Mars and finally our field of dreams moment of the week apparently if you build it they will come FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today issued the so-called gigabit City challenge in a nutshell he wants to see all 50 states have at least one community with gigabit internet speeds by 2015 overall the FCC said that there are 42 communities across 14 states that already have access to high-speed fiber based internet so the challenge is off to a good start it all feels a little like me saying let's end world hunger in the next half hour but you know we're rooting for the FCC on this one and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we'll take an in-depth look at the locksmiths that will help you recover your google password ring