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from our bridget carey. ****"""3 3 3 a new bed might be a safe a new bed 3 3 ****"""bridget carey. new york, i'm our studios in cnet.com. from more at there's always update, and this tech news "that's it for ***"free. stream for can still music, and you google play live on inside playlist will every single january, but at the end of shutting down 3 3 3 spotify has a new way to liven up your next party. here's your c - net tech update. 3 "several music services are spinning some new beats. i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***"as the year wraps up, several changes are coming to your favorite music streaming services. ***for starters, pandora and other internet radio broadcasters will have to pay 20 percent more in royalities to the music copyright holders and artists. but it's not a huge price hike. it's really just .0017 cents per song streamed, and currently it pays .0014 cents a song. one of the issues with streaming online isishat services like pandora have to pay out more rorolities than a traditional radio station. pandora's ceo says the company can work with the new

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***"if you have a techie gift giver in the family, there's a good chance someone in the household is getting a gadget that you can talk to -- and it will talk to seeing people talk to their phones with siri or google now, but are you ready to converse with other devices? here's a quick primer on what to expect when you start carrying on coversations with your new gadgets."for starters, don't expect perfection. although at times it is impressivly accurate, it won't always pick up on what you are saying. these systems tend to have the most trouble with names. so when you try again - don't start talking slower with exagerated pro-nun- ciation. it won't help. you don't need to become a robot to talk to a robot, speak naturally. in settings you can tell these systems if you speak with a dialect, like british engligh but it's not great with all accents:how to get to disney world***""a very popular product this year answers to the name alexa. it's amazon's echo smart speaker. (source: amazon:

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***take your christmas celebrations up a notch this year with some high tech help. let's start by spicing up the traditional yule log video. when guests come over,(source: tales of whiskey: 00:21:26 - 00:41:43) you may want to put on a soothing video of a crackling fire -- but why not instead stream a video of actor nick offermanansippininwhiskey near a crackling fire for 45 minutes. yes, it is really just one big ad for that whiskey brand, but there's something medativie and soothing about staring at this continious video. maybe it's the beard.(source: benjaminapple: 00:41:43 - 00:53:35 )or perhaps more fitting for your home is the darth vadedeyule log, created by youtube user benjaminapple. you can just watch vader's dead body burn by the fire in this five-hour-long clip. little known fact - that resistant. now if only someone could make a version of this for jar jar binks. it's really easy to play this on your tv if you have a streaming box with a youtube app, like the roku or chron

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***"" when rock band first when rock "when rock band first came out in 2007, the idea was that you could feel like you're a rock star as you smash buttononon plastic instruments. but if you really really y nt to feel like you're rocking out on stage, soon you could play in harmonix: 0:24-0:32)rock band the game will be playable on the oculus rift headset by march of next year. the announcment was made at the game awards show thursday by palmer luckey, the co-founder of oculus vr. he teased on twitter that he had a big announcement to make at the show, but fans were hoping for something bigger -- like a price or release date for when they can buy an oculus rift. because people don't even know how much this headset is going to cost, although some insiders are estimating that vr headsets could be as much as a new console, maybe around $350 dollars. (video from htc: 1:00-1:04)(video from sony: 1:05-1:12)we also don't know the price or exact release dates of other high-end virtual reality headsets getting buzz, like htc's vive and the playstation

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""if your kid owns a vtech learning toy, a hacker could know their names, birthdays and where they live. the app store for vtech's learnng lodge was breached a little over two weeks ago, and according to a statement from vtech, (video from vtech: 0:22- 0:35)and according to a statement from vtech, this exposed the names, emails, passwords, mailing addresses and download history for 5 million accounts. but it goes way beyond that. a hacker also was able to pull up the photos taken of kids and their arents, along with chats and audio recordings made with the kid connect service. (photo from motherboard: 0:35-0:49) motherboard, which was first to report ofhe hack. motherboard has been talking with the hacker involved, who provided the proof. the hacked data also includes names, gender and birthdays of more than 200-hundred-thousand kids. (video from vtech: 0:49- 1:22)the hacker reportedly found tens of thousands of photos on vtech's servers, and says there are no plans to publish or se

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""you can visit a galaxy far far away in virtual reality with the star wars app, and verizon is giving away free google cardboararheadsets, in four different star wars character designs. therere r2d2, bb-8, kylo ren and a s srmtrooper. the galactic empire of verizon gave us a private, secured experience to check them out in person. there are 200 thousand being given out to verizon customers in stores. verizon is one of the sponsors of the upcoming movie, the force awakens. but you don't need this collectable version to enjoy the star wars universe in virtual reality. any vr headset will do, and you can find a plain google cardboard set for just three bucks on ebay. the main star wars app has been updated with a new feature called jakku spy. inside you'll find short 360-degree video clips in stereoscopic 3d, which tease the movie. the first one has you on the dessert planet jakku getting a message from bb8. a new one comes out every few days with nine in total, and they all will tie

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***"live photos taken with the iphone 6s are the closest thing we have to those moving photos you see in harry potter movies. it's a still image, but when you press on the screen, you can see about a second before and after it was taken, just a moment in time, and it also records audio. it's basically a mini movie. only the newest iphone 6s models can create these, and another iphone or ipad with ios 9. but they couldn't be shared to a social network -- until now. *** tumblr just updated its app to include 3d touch, so you can press a photo to make it come alive. android users will still only see a regular non-moving photo. there are workrkarounds to share it with the world, because the ipne is really just saving it as a .m-o-v video file. you can hook it up to a computer to import the movie file, and then use a gif making tool to turn it into a looping gif. you can find more tips on how to do this on cnet. "tumblr, which is owned by yahoo, is the first network to work with these live

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""you survived black friday and cyber monday. now get ready for - green monday. that's right, there's another day of online sales, and it usually online sales, another day of there's that's right, green monday. monday. now and cyber black friday you survived "you survived black friday and cyber monday. now green monday. that's right, there's 3 another day of online sales, and it usually falls on the second monday of december, at least 10 days before christmas. ebay coined the phrase several years ago to mark that this was the busiest online sales day in december. the color of all that money just rolling in. since it's such a hot day for online orders, you will find stores advertising deals to lure you in. amazon, best buy and walmart have begun teasing that they'll have green monday deals. the discounts may not be as dramatic as black friday, but it's still a good time to nab a few gifts and not have to pay full price. the next big day to look out for is free shipping day on friday, december 18. that's six days before christmas e

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""do feel like your iphone is always your phone is "do feel like your iphone is always your iphone is "do feel like ***"cnet update.***""do feel like your iphone is always running out of juice too quickly? does it need a charge before you get home from work? the battery was never a strong suit for the iphone 6 and 6s, and now apple has unveiled it's very own battery case to give you an 80 percent power boost. it's the first time apple is making a battery case, but it's a bit silly how expensive it is. apple's new case is $100, whereas you can get good cases for cheaper from other makers, like the mophie juice pack reserve for $60, shown like the design is impressing anyone with that big ol' bump in the baba. the advantage e that it's soft so it's easy to take on and off, and you can charge it with the same lightening cable, whereas other battery packs use micro usb cords. the downs are the same as some other cases -- it can block some headset jacks from fitting in."and speaking of f

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""microsoft's cortana is no longer locked the voice-activated personal assistant to your a aroid or iphone with a new app. but she may not be mumu help. that's because she doesn't have all her windows powers on iphone and android. so for example, if you try to use the cortana app to text someone, the app can't actually text anyone for you. it's just a middleman, or is that middlewoman. you still have to text a message yourself. but the cortana android app yourself. but messsse yourself. but the cortana android app 3 does have a few extra perks. you can activate it by saying ""hey cortana."" still, it could be just easier to use google now voice commands. so why would anyone use the cortana app? it can be helpful if you have a windows 10 pc with cortana, because notifications from your pc can be sent to your phone. for example, set a reminder to pick up milk at the store, and your phone will remind you when you get to the neighborhood, assuming you allow it to track your location. as

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""as the end of ***"3 "as the end of the year draws near, twitter released a report on the top tweets, trends and hashtags of 2015. and what did it show? that twitter users care more about the band one direction than anything else. oh dear. a few band members of one direction had the most retweeted messages -- even more than when the president of the united states tweeted about legalizing gay marriage. own president account this year in may, and his tweet on gay marriage was the fourth most re-tweeted. guess not even the president can compare with boy band fans. some other big retweets included a tweet from the king of saudia arabia. after he was crowned, he sent out a message of prayer and support to his people. twitter is very big in saudi arabia. also among the top retweeted messages was one from star trek's leonard nimoy, the last tweet he sent before he died in february. (video from twitter: 1:02-1:32) some of the biggest news events shared on twitter included the paris terrori

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***"facebook is just cramming its messenger app with new features for the holidays. if you're sharing photos of friends and family over the chat app, you may notice that it can recognize faces and suggests that you send it to them. the facial recognition tool that's in the main facebook app for tagging photos is now rolling out to the messenger app, but in messenger it's to remind you to send the photo to the person. facebook calls it photo magic. but if you call it weird, you can tell facebook to not suggest your face to others in settings -- or turn off suggestions completely inside messenger. "the app is also letting you set a color for a conversation, if you rather not have everything blue and white. you can also set nicknames, so your mom can show up as mom instead of her full name on facebook. and you know that big thumbs up you to another emoji. to change these things on ios, tap on the name of the person in the chat, and it'll open up a list of choices. on android, there's a in

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""if the government censors a website, you may come across a new type of error code when you visit the blocked page. we've all seen the 404 file not found error, and there are number codes for other problems. 408 is request timeout. 403 is a forbidden page whree access is denied. and now, a new code was just approved by the interent engineering steering group: error 451, a code for when a website is censored, so you know it's a legal reason and not the fault of a technical glitch. the code was submitted by tim bray. he's a co-author of xml specification, and he picked 451 as a nod to the ray bradbury novel fahrenheit 451, a story of a society that outlaws and burns all books, which censors ideas. now there is a hiccup to this concept. block the use of a 451 code, to hide the reason for the site not working. but if a country doesn't block it, you'll know the difference between a legal takedown request and a site just not allowing access or not working. ***""the web has changed quite

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***""the force is awakening and the hype train is on hyperdrive. early reviews are now all over the web not want to read anything to avoid spoilils and go in for a pure experience. instead of browsing the web like this... you can distract yourself in a few ways. ***google has a new game to test your lightsaber weilding skills. it's cled lightsaber escape. you log into the game from a laptop or desktop on a chrome browser, and it gives you instructions on how to sync up your phone as a controller for the game. your phone becomes a lightsaber you swing to deflect blaster fire from storm troopers on a star destroyer. but dodging all those pew-pew rays, which is the scientific term, is not easy. also you may have some trouble playing this on a work internet connection, because a workplace may have extra security settings that can muck up the syncing between your phone and the computer. ***""you can spend time creating animated gifs with star wars flare on the new giphy cam app -- or mamae

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.you can now broadcast live video to your friends on facebook. it's all in real time, and works just like periscope app. (video from facebook 00:19-00:49)this new feature is first being rolled out to a small percentage of people in the us with iphones. and here's how it works:you'll start a broadcast from the mobile app, and friends can write comments as they watch. the broadcaster can also like a comment during a broadcast, and will see the number of people watching as well as their names. when it's over, the video is posted to the person's timeline and can be viewed again. there's also a subscribe button for viewers to get notifed the next time that person broadcasts live. obviously this is going to be a major challenger to the periscope app, which is you're at a big event, will you choose to share with your facebook friends, or the open world of twitter? facebook is trying to become more like twitter as a media hub and place to discover breaking news. this feature was something facebook first reserved only for celebrity accounts back in augus

i'm bridget carey, this is your 3 3 this morning we have some lingering flurries especially in eastern siouxland. skies are going to eventually clear out today and highs will only skies overnight our temperatures are going to plummet quickly into the single digits. look for sunny skies the rest of the week, as high pressure begins to dominate the area. afternoon temperatures will slowly be warming up over the next few days with highs getting into the lower 40s by friday.cloud cover is due to come back over the weekend, but things will stay quiet and dry for the next several days. 3 we'll take a look at your news and weather to go coming up after the break...you're watching siouxland news at 3 it's now (time) as we take a look outside (xxx) on the (xxx) cam. 3 3 here's a look at your weather 3 3 3 3 here's a look at your news to go ... 3 3 the u - s military plans to send about 200 special operation forces to iraq operation 200 special to send about 200 special operation forces to iraq as part of a plan to intensify the fight against isis. in an announcement tuesday... defense secretary

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.this year's hot holiday gift is just way too hot for some companies to touch. and by hot, i mean fire and explosion go boom hot. you may know it as a hoverboard or balance board, but there are now some safety concerns with this mix between a skateboard and segway. in some models, the lithium ion batteries are catching fire, and it could be because some are poorly made. overstock is no longer selling hoverboards, and it appears that amazon is pulling some of these hoverboard products until the sellers can provide documents proving they meet safety standards. one popular brand, swagway, shared a statement with a few media outlets about this,swagways cost around $400, and are cheaper than most high-end brands that can go for around $15-hundred dollars. but there are even some knockoffs being sold for $300 or $200 dollars, and you need to stay away from those. the government is now getting involved. the united states consumer product safety commission is currently investigating these products after reports of hoverboard fires. and several major