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it's Tuesday jun 11 2013 I'm Nathan psyker and just like the Xbox I need to phone home every 24 hours this is 90 seconds on the verge Sony held its e3 press conference last night and came out swinging against Microsoft the new PlayStation 4 will cost three hundred ninety nine dollars when it debuts this holiday season Sony made it clear it would not impose restrictions on use ps4 games nor would it require an online connection which seems like common sense but it's not exactly what xbox are doing google has acquired the traffic mapping service ways in an effort to stay on top although the service only boasts 28 million users the deal was apparently made as a defensive move towards competitors such as Apple and Facebook ways uses crowdsourcing to add context such as information about traffic accidents construction and even gas prices these features all sound great but when will it be able to tell me how long I can hold and go into the bathroom on my commute home finally in the shadow of prism and NSA scandals both tech companies and Senators alike are looking for more transparency and less prying senators Al Franken Ron Wyden and Mike Lee are just a few of the Senators proposing a bill that would declassify both prism and the separate phone records surveillance program on a related note google has published an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller asking for permission to publish the aggregated number of national security requests that received saying quote google has nothing to hide except for Google's secret private island of Google cyber surgery that one's still in beta and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we finally debunk the rumors that aliens have taken over the verge you