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these are the top stories of the week a huge discovery by NASA amazon takes on youtube and everything else you need to know 1284 that's the number of new planets discovered by the kepler space telescope this is the largest amount of planets discovered at one time how many are habitable nine that brings a total of habitable planets up to 21 the chief scientist at nasa ellen stofan said this gives us hope that somewhere out there around a star much like ours we can eventually discover another earth that's really cool on this planet amazon taking on youtube anyone can now upload video to amazon video direct creators have options video can appear on prime video with royalty fee or video can be sold via subscription additionally video can be available for free with ads content creators will receive fifty five percent of ad revenue Amazon's launch partners include house up works Samuel Goldwyn Films and condé nast gizmodo and The Guardian are saying that Facebook's trending topic section isn't what it seems both say if Facebook editorial team manipulates what you see in that section gives motor sites former Facebook News curators as its source they say Facebook avoided right wing new sources not why is this a big deal the trending topic section could potentially not reflect what is really getting people's attention on facebook facebook told CNET that the guidelines posted by the Guardian aren't its current parameters Facebook then published a blog post explaining that the topics are found by an algorithm then those topics are reviewed by a team another algorithm matches topics to the Facebook user Mark Zuckerberg says he will be looking into the matter platform used to know it's time to go rapid fire opera introduced a free VPN app for iOS there are no data limits on it either so you can use it as much as you want google introduced an awesome new keyboard for iOS it's called G board it puts Google search right in the keyboard google says it's working on an android version 2 speaking of google a report from recode says google is working on an amazon echo rival instagram revised its icon so cue the backlash periscope will now allow its users to save broadcast indefinitely and Apple announced it has invested 1 billion dollars in a Chinese ride-hailing service now you're all caught up and set to get your daily dose of tech news check out Cena calm / update for weekly dose hit up cnet com / radar I'm Maya's actor signing off