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apple TV is about to get another voice search perk I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update appletv will soon be stretching its eerie powers so you can use your voice to enter in all sorts of searches and even speak your password instead of hunting and pecking through an on-screen keyboard with your remote or by reaching for your iphone or ipad to type it out the new Apple TV already does have series so you can search for movies or shows by talking into the remote control but the update let's use your voice to search for more things like apps the features are not available to everyone yet only developers can access these perks in a beta version of the new TV operating system software that's TV OS 9.2 that means most people probably won't see this until the spring but maybe we'll hear more about it next month it's not official yet but there are reports that apple is planning to hold a presentation on March fifteenth to announce new products and that could be when we hear about updates to the Apple watch a new iPad and maybe even a new smaller screen variation of the iphone meanwhile in social media land prepared to see video advertisements at the top of your twitter feed twitter is selling a new video ad spot and it will show up in the twitter app and the desktop website twitter has been under close watch lately with reports that it may be changing the timeline to be more like Facebook and sorted by popularity or algorithms instead of showing you the tweets in chronological order twitter is also often criticized for not doing enough to combat serious harassment the network talks about not tolerating abuse of users but many say not enough action has been taken even former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo once said about Twitter and I quote we suck at dealing with abuse and trolls months since that statement Twitter just announced it created a trust and safety council made up of outsiders from 40 organizations like safety advocates academics mental health professionals but just how exactly this just this league of troll fighters can do something actionable remains to be seen that's it for this tech news update there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey