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blackberry may have some life left while Apple and Samsung keep babbling over patents I'm shower tip can infer Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update blackberry may not be zoomed after all the smartphone maker revealed it has won a massive Pentagon order with the Department of Defense giving 80,000 BlackBerry's to employees that Dwarfs the 1800 Apple and Android devices it also will distribute blackberry has really struggled to compete with the other smartphones on the market but even with the big order blackberry said it will sell most of its canadian real estate holdings to raise cash Apple and Samsung head back to court at the end of March but Samsung has already faced a couple setbacks District Court Judge Lucy Coe late Tuesday ruled that one samsung patent a question in this legal saga isn't valid she also determined that the Korean company infringed on an apple patent for auto completing text the do companies have already faced off in court a couple times but the upcoming trial covers gadgets still on the market like the galaxy s3 and iphone 5 Apple and Samsung are supposed to hold talks ahead of the trial but a settlement sure doesn't seem very promising Facebook is about to lose most of its users or at least that's what a new Princeton study says researchers at the University use disease models to predict that eighty percent of facebook users will quit between 2015 and 2017 it's much like Facebook has an infectious disease the researchers said Facebook has already reached the peak of its popularity and has entered a decline phase snapchat has ruled out a tool to make sure you're a real person new users who sign up for the photo messaging app have to complete a puzzle before they're allowed to join it's pretty basic your show 9 photos and have to select which ones have a ghost in them snapchat has had some security issues lately but the puzzle is one way the company is trying to stop hackers who could steal phone numbers China's having some problems with the internet to hundreds of millions of people attempting to visit China's most popular sites on Tuesday instead found themselves rerouted ironically the site they ended up accessing was for a company called dynamic internet technology that company helps people avoid Beijing's web sensors some publications believed hackers caused the issue but sources told Reuters that the incident might have been caused by an engine ering mistake from making changes to China's Great Firewall censorship system the whole gave many Chinese citizens their first glimpse into the outside digital world Edward Snowden is going to answer some of your questions the NSA whistleblower on Thursday will participate in an hour-long QA to address things like president obama's NSA reforms Snowden has been living in exile in Russia since he released classified documents about the NSA's surveillance programs I personally would like to know what he did all that time at the Moscow Airport that's your tech news update but you can find more details at cnet com / update and you can always keep up with the latest stories by following me on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Shara's hip gay