 It's Friday, January 18th, 2013. I'm David Pierce, part of the stealthy internet oligarchy that rides into battle on a pop-tart cat hybrid that poops rainbows. This is 90 Seconds on the Verge, presented by Ford. The TSA is pulling the plug on so-called naked x-ray scanners. Manufacturer OSI Systems couldn't guarantee privacy, which is to say it couldn't promise less revealing passenger images. The TSA has already begun to remove backscatter scanners from airports, opting to replace them with the less awkward millimeter wave scanners beginning late last year. Speaking of lasers, the Mona Lisa has taken a ride from the Earth to the Moon. NASA has just completed a successful test of long-distance laser communication by beaming Da Vinci's masterpiece from Maryland to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter some 240,000 miles away. At 300 bits per second, it wasn't exactly the fastest transmission, but hey, give them some credit for the distance. It went to the frickin' moon. And up next, spider gifts on Mars. And finally, our Field of Dreams moment of the week. Apparently if you build it, they will come. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today issued the so-called Gigabit City Challenge. In a nutshell, he wants to see all 50 states have at least one community with gigabit internet speeds by 2015. Overall, the FCC said that there are 42 communities across 14 states that already have access to high-speed fiber-based internet, so the challenge is off to a good start. It all feels a little like me saying, let's end world hunger in the next half hour, but you know, we're rooting for the FCC on this one. And that's it for today's top stories. Coming up tomorrow, we'll take an in-depth look at the locksmith that will help you recover your Google password ring.
 It's Friday, January 18th, 2013.
 I'm David Pierce, part of the stealthy internet oligarchy that rides into battle on a pop-tart
 cat hybrid that poops rainbows.
 This is 90 Seconds on the Verge, presented by Ford.
 The TSA is pulling the plug on so-called naked x-ray scanners.
 Manufacturer OSI Systems couldn't guarantee privacy, which is to say it couldn't promise
 less revealing passenger images.
 The TSA has already begun to remove backscatter scanners from airports, opting to replace
 them with the less awkward millimeter wave scanners beginning late last year.
 Speaking of lasers, the Mona Lisa has taken a ride from the Earth to the Moon.
 NASA has just completed a successful test of long-distance laser communication by beaming
 Da Vinci's masterpiece from Maryland to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter some 240,000 miles
 away.
 At 300 bits per second, it wasn't exactly the fastest transmission, but hey, give them
 some credit for the distance.
 It went to the frickin' moon.
 And up next, spider gifts on Mars.
 And finally, our Field of Dreams moment of the week.
 Apparently if you build it, they will come.
 FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today issued the so-called Gigabit City Challenge.
 In a nutshell, he wants to see all 50 states have at least one community with gigabit internet
 speeds by 2015.
 Overall, the FCC said that there are 42 communities across 14 states that already have access
 to high-speed fiber-based internet, so the challenge is off to a good start.
 It all feels a little like me saying, let's end world hunger in the next half hour, but
 you know, we're rooting for the FCC on this one.
 And that's it for today's top stories.
 Coming up tomorrow, we'll take an in-depth look at the locksmith that will help you recover
 your Google password ring.