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these are the top stories of the week Google Fiber is expanding there's an amazing robot you have to see and everything else you need to know Google Fiber announced it will acquire web Pass web pass is a high speed fiber Internet service provider it does business in five major markets including Chicago Boston and San Francisco this service is an apartment buildings and businesses these are two areas that Google Fiber would like to get into Web Pass also uses point-to-point wireless to build out its network Google Fiber has been working on a way to connect wireless towers to its fiber lines this could be a good match Twitter's making some changes it will now allow anyone to upload videos up to 140 seconds long the old limit was 30 seconds twitter is also bringing this change to vine certain users will be able to attach 140 second long videos to vines the short six second vines will remain you'd have to click through to see the longer videos the Boston Dynamics released a video introducing spot mini it's a smaller version of its spot robot that's the one it looks like a dog the video shows a nimble doglike creature with an extended neck spot mini can do all kinds of things like load the dishwasher recycle your cans and even slip on banana peels don't worry spot gets up the robot can also climb stairs you might find this terrifying but I believe it's truly adorable I want one let's go rapid-fire shall we opera and Microsoft are in a spat about which browser is best for your laptop battery microsoft says edge is the best opera says it's the best they both agree that chrome it's not the best - battery killer BitTorrent announced a video and music streaming service called BitTorrent now Elon Musk says the Tesla Model S can act as a boat for short periods of time and he doesn't recommend you do that YouTube will bring live streaming to its mobile app soon and yes it was a very slow week but now you're all caught up in tech to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet.com / - for a weekly dose head-up cnet.com / my signing off