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it's Wednesday April 10 2013 I'm Sam sheffer and you may have seen me on the front page of reddit your boss is a monster Thank You Alexis this is 90 seconds on the verge Microsoft is prepping features for the next Xbox that could make it the central piece of your living room set up sources have revealed that the new xbox will take inputs from a cable box and overlay its own interface similar to Google TV support for different cable services will be rolled out over time but the basic functionality will be there at launch Microsoft is expected to hold an Xbox event in late May and will probably learn more about his TV features then if Facebook home is a look at the future the social networks new status updates are a blast from the past your updates can now be tagged with specific activities things like what you're watching reading or listening to the feature also encourages users to tag any related items all the better for facebook to collect data for graph search users can even tag how they're feeling complete with emoticons come on you know you want to use it the White House is published its proposed budget for 2014 and drones are taking a serious hit spending on drones by all branches of the military will be 2.5 billion dollars next year that's down from three point eight billion dollars for this year a decrease of around thirty percent overall the budget calls for 526 point six billion dollars in discretionary defense spending it's worth noting that this is just a proposal the budget still has to survive Congress and that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow for a look at the art world's use of negative space why so sad