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it's Thursday may second 2013 I'm your friendly neighborhood pal ellis hamburger this is 90 seconds on the verge presented by virgin mobile according to recent reports Microsoft will show off the next generation of surface tablets this June digitize writes that the company is working on smaller surface devices with displays between seven and nine inches in size the plan is to announce them if this year's build developer conference rumors of a 7-inch surface tablet emerged last year we understand that both the surface and Xbox teams are collaborating together on that project this year's build will focus on the so called Windows 8.1 blue as well as software improvements for smaller tablet devices New York residents are finally able to use smartphone apps to hail taxi kit what seriously scratch that a New York appellate judge issued an emergency injunction yesterday stopping services that use apps to hail and pay for taxis the decision came just days after the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission gave to go ahead for companies like uber take part in the sanctioned pilot program things now go back to the appellate who are scheduled to issue a decision on May twenty and finally a little bit of Facebook is trickling down to Instagram photo tagging Instagram will now let you directly tag photos with the people and places in them you can then track the tag photos in a new section of your profile called photos of you the news feature is available as part of Instagram 3.5 rolling out today for iphone android and that's it for today's top stories but coming up tomorrow we talked to the world's first Bionic beagle named scooter