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it's Wednesday February 20th 2013 I'm Ross Miller and I'm Chris grant editor-in-chief of polygon and this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by Motorola ending weeks of rampant rumors whispers and other rabble-rousing sony has announced the PlayStation 4 the hardware is based on quote supercharged PC architecture with eight CPU cores yes the graphics are better the new DualShock 4 controller has a touchpad headphone jack and share button sony says its goal to make video sharing as popular in ps4 as screenshots are today there's also a new 3d camera that's not entirely dissimilar to the Microsoft Kinect Sony's really big new feature is game streaming using clouds PlayStation 4 games can be played in full while they're being downloaded streamed in a similar manner to how Netflix streams movies you can also use the ps4 as a server and play the games using the PS Vita kind of like the Wii U the technology is being provided by Gaikai which Sony purchased last July here's the catch though PlayStation 1 2 and 3 games cannot be played natively sorry cloud only finally something not at all related to Sony Google glass the company today posted a video preview of its forthcoming wearable headset based on the demo Google glass will allow users to receive and execute on-screen directions send voice controlled messages and search the web through speech the key phrases ok glass google is also expanding as pre-orders to quote creative individuals so beg them to take your money a little more creatively ok glass and that's it for today's top stories Konoe tomorrow mathematicians have discovered the last digit of pi spoiler it's three