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it's Thursday may sixteen 2013 I'm Alice hamburger Lord of a land that time forgot this is 90 seconds on the verge presented by virgin mobile google glass is about to get a lot more useful and a lot more distracting at its i/o conference today Google announced several new apps for the headset including Facebook Twitter Evernote and tumblr Twitter and Facebook focus on photo sharing while a new CNN app will feed you headlines and video clips google also announced that the new hangouts messaging app that debuted yesterday will in fact be getting SMS integration sometime soon they'll likely only for Android Windows Phone has hit a significant milestone third place according to idc's most recent report Windows Phone overtook blackberry and global smartphone shipments for the first quarter this year which is to say Windows Phone accounted for three-point-two percent smartphone shipments versus the two-point-nine percent owned by blackberry devices of course the big dogs are still Google and Apple Android is around 75 percent of all shipments while iOS dropped to just over seventeen percent and finally an asteroid the size the golden gate bridge will be cruised and pastor at the later this month NASA announced that the asteroid will pass by our planet on May 31st it will be about 15 times further away than the moon so it won't be any real threat but it will be the closest this particular space rock will get in the next 200 years the asteroid is approximately 1.7 miles in length that's about 28,000 Twinkies end over end and that's it for today's top stories but join us tomorrow for a very special report on doing yourself hyperdrive repair