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Martian debunk, Comcast takes NBC Universal, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: February 12, 2013

2013-02-12
it's Tuesday februari 12 2013 I'm Stephen Greenwood and this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by the color or a mysterious metallic like object seen on the surface of Mars appears to be nothing at all last month the Curiosity rover took a picture of what looked like a metal door handle jutting out from the Martian bedrock a scientist affiliated with the NASA mission however has said that it's likely just a rock polished to a high-sheen by wind come on there's no way we'd find the secret Martian hatch until curiosity season 2 Intel will be launching an internet TV device later this year general manager erik huggers confirmed that the company will be launching a set-top box with quote beautiful industrial design intel's box will also have a built-in camera the camera could be used to provide personalized show recommendations or let viewers sync up across the world for a quote real social experience so change out of those pajamas and get off the couch and finally comcast has announced that it will assume full ownership of nbcuniversal the company is buying out the forty-nine percent of the media conglomerate currently owned by GE which will give comcast one hundred percent ownership the cost the cool sixteen point seven billion dollars comcast is also throwing in another 1.4 billion to pick up the properties at rockefeller plaza in new york and CNBC's headquarters in New Jersey silly comcast you're supposed to pick up rockefeller plaza before 30 rock goes off the air and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow meet the first Muppet AI that passed the Turing test in song
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