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it's Wednesday November 6 2013 i'm david pearson in my free time I like to go big bird watching though most people just call that Sesame Street this is 90 seconds on the verge the tech scene has lost his cheerleader Bill de Blasio has been elected mayor of New York City and will take over for Michael Bloomberg on January first during Bloomberg's 10 years technology became the second largest industry in New York City behind finance while de Blasio hasn't made startups as large a focus he has committed to expanding broadband access throughout the birds as well as investing heavily in tech education Bloomberg's aggressive boosterism meanwhile will live on in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has vowed to double the city's tech sector over the next decade the long-awaited nail has finally reached the coffin blockbuster will close its last 300 retail stores in the US by early January while blockbuster streaming rental service will still exist the company's fallen far from its throne at its peak the rental giant was operating over 9,000 stores worldwide honestly my first reaction was blockbuster still has 300 stores and finally calm down everyone there is no zombie apocalypse in what was called a quote internal production problem Fox News website appear to be two-faced yesterday afternoon with headlines referencing gold miners and yes zombies Fox now says that the mishap was the result of a prototype homepage accidentally being published on to its main site as for the verge we will continue prototyping our homepage using pictures of your dress is immodest that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow I continue my month-long hunt for the perfect turkey