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it's Tuesday jun 18 2013 i'm ross miller and according to the cloud it's gonna rain today this is 90 seconds on the verge the NSA has revealed that government surveillance efforts have helped stop more than 50 possible terrorist threat since 911 both worldwide and domestically yep that's right 50 that's the number they gave no more no less speaking to a congressional committee this morning general Keith Alexander said these included plans to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and the New York City subway system unfortunately these broad numbers aren't giving the public the transparency they want and few other contextual details were provided President Obama spoke at length with Charlie Rose last night defending the intelligence gathering program and asserting there is a proper set of checks and balances in place Tesla Motors is planning to show off swappable car batteries of June twentieth the idea is that when a battery loses charge it can be swapped with a fully charged battery in minutes and a filing with the SEC this past May the companies that have plan to introduce a way to rapidly switch Model S battery packs and develop quote specialized public facilities to perform the swaps here's a sneak preview you know but with a car finally according to Deadline bioshock creator king Levine has been tapped to write the Logan's Run remake Logan's Run takes place in the future city state in which a computer takes care of all aspects of human life that's ridiculous Siri remind me how ridiculous that is later that's it for today's top stories but coming up tomorrow Peter Piper picked a peck of poison processed pickled peppers prognosis pancreatic pain not what you need to know