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Apple should know better not to battle with anyone named Worf I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update Apple is facing a hefty fine and it could pay as much as 862 million dollars after losing a patent lawsuit over its processors on Tuesday a u.s. jury found that the iphone maker infringed on six patent claims with technology that was invented by the university of wisconsin-madison it involves a way to improve the performance and power efficiency of processors which is used in the iphone 5s 6 and 6 plus the university suit in 2014 claiming that apple purposefully took the technology instead of licensing it and Apple was arguing that the patents were invalid now the jury is deciding how much Apple is going to pay and the university is asking for 862 million dollars but here's a sign that Apple didn't stand a chance in the battle the school's licensing arm is the wisconsin alumni research foundation known for short as Worf sure it's spelled differently than the enterprise's chief tactical officer but it's still a good idea to just not mess with anything named Worf meanwhile Facebook has its own battle is raging against YouTube Facebook is creating a hub just to watch video clips upload it to Facebook they can be videos you save to watch later or videos from people or pages you follow it's just rolling out to a small number of users first and Facebook is also testing out a feature that lets videos float in a window in the corner following you as you keep scrolling down Facebook has talked about its video ambitions for some time now the network is even talking about sharing revenue with video creators just like YouTube does you may not be able to escape videos but you can escape reminders of your ex on facebook the network likes to remind you of past posts you made on this day in previous years but now there's a filter in settings so you can be sure not to be reminded of any photos or posts tagged with certain people or posts made on a certain day go to facebook.com slash on this day click on preferences to the right to change settings because it could be painful to get a surprise reminder about certain things and over at the other big social network winner just appointed a new executive chairman but he doesn't tweet much Oh mid-core destani the former chief business officer of Google now holds the Twitter chairman role that Jack Dorsey held but since Dorsey came back a CEO someone else needed to fill the seat couristan e launched a twitter account in 2010 but before getting the job he only tweeted eight times the news comes a day after twitter laid off more than 300 employees that's it for this tech news update there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey