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dr. Dre ain't the only one who could be sly with marketing I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update digg has been reborn it's been six weeks since beta works bought up the news aggregation site and it's pushed out a simple page to highlight top stories and popular stories you can also save articles to read later on the new digg iphone app but you'll have to log in with a facebook account to do that there's been some criticism from digg fans about how the archives are gone but beta quirk says this is just the first version of the redesign it'll be continuing to roll out new features over the next few months including comments so you remember this fella it's google's media streaming device $300 Nexus Q after tepid reviews google announced that it's taking this back to development to add more features because one of the biggest gripes is that for 300 bucks it really didn't have any features anyone who pre-ordered this gets the model for free though great for your Olympic shoplet practice the Olympics have strict marketing rules but the sneaky folks at Beats Audio just happened to find a way to give brand exposure without paying the big sponsorship bucks if you've been seeing athletes wearing monster headphones before matches well that's because Beats Audio just happened to bump into athletes and hand them headsets Amazon's getting more competitive with Netflix now amazon instant video is available to view as an ipad app you don't have to be a prime member to purchase or rent any of the videos available but prime subscribers do get the bonus of being able to stream some titles for free Verizon Wireless will no longer charge customers on ter data plans who use third-party tethering apps from a smartphone it's part of a deal it struck with the FCC over how spectrum can be used so what does it all mean to you well if you have the new sharing plan nothing changed tethering is already included if you have an old tier data plan and you were paying that $20 tethering fee for a mobile broadband connect well you need to be proactive and cancel that plan you won't be hit with a penalty fee but they'll keep charging you unless you cancel if the Olympics are taking up all your time at work there's a tool to help you find relief the browser add-on called Olympics will block out a limb key words from any page as you pull up but if you're trying to keep yourself in suspense for the NBC primetime tape delay don't count on this to help you avoid spoilers you can still see some images it'll still show big names like Michael Phelps so it's not perfect and you can't block breaking news alerts in your email and you'll still get smart phone push notifications so resistance to Olympic news is futile that's your tech news update for today for more on the stories mentioned in today's show you can head on over to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey