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it's friday april fifth 2013 I'm the 12th doctor and this is my spaceship don't worry it's bigger on the inside this is 90 seconds on the verge google fiber may be on its way to Texas the company in the city of austin are holding a joint press event this tuesday and ventureBeat reports that they'll be announcing the rollout of gigabit internet in the service in the city Google Fiber previously debuted in Kansas City but the tech community in Austin makes it an obvious next step Google's keeping things quiet for now saying only that the announcement will quote have a positive impact on Austinites and the future of the city mmm BBQ and fiber speaking of Google the company today announced that Chrome will be leaving behind WebKit in just about 10 weeks on Wednesday Google said it would be forking the popular rendering engine for its own version called blink the company had previously been working with apple on WebKit which also powers the Safari browser since WebKit and blink are so similar web developers shouldn't have too many problems at first but we'll have to see how it goes from there finally rumor has it that the next Xbox will require an always-on internet connection for use that's caused some concern but one high-level Microsoft employee thinks that everyone should just get over it Microsoft Studios creative director Adam orth took to Twitter this week to express surprise over the negative reaction to be specific he likened it to not buying a vacuum cleaner because the electricity sometimes goes out the views expressed by orth are not necessarily indicative of the company's plans but he might be in a position to know a thing or two and that's it for today's top stories join us next week for the flat land before time now in 3d