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it's Thursday October 11 2012 I'm Nilay Patel and this will be 90 seconds of personal disruption with five by five Stan Benjamin okay Japan's third largest wireless carrier Softbank is in advanced talks to buy the US as third largest carrier sprint according to Reuters the discussions involved softbank purchasing majority stake more than twelve point eight billion dollars tanya is interesting is sprint is rumored to be making a counteroffer from MetroPCS which is currently in talks to merge with t-mobile USA it's a really weird time for US carriers Samsung's Galaxy s3 mini is now official it's also officially the completely wrong name though smaller than the s3 proper the mini still has a 4-inch screen everything about the phone feels dated in fact the specs are decidedly last gen the cameras are downgraded most surprisingly evolved it lacks any LTE support there's no price there's no release date and honestly there's no reason to care finally a google is updated over a quarter million miles of Street View Road images the company is calling it the largest ever upgrade to the service increasing coverage in the US Great Britain Italy Sweden and others apple just updated its highly criticized maps as well so it's increased competition is only gonna be good for consumers that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow when this disturbing nightmare finally comes to an end okay so it's a whole party that's happening right how's it going man do you want to do this last one dude you stand right there everybody all right ready