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you soon will be able to build your own smartphone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Motorola is finally opening up about the rumored Moto X smartphone it's the first phone produced since google acquired the company we have no photos but there is a teaser page online that says the Moto X is the first phone you can build yourself the page the sign up for more information also says today you should have the freedom to design the things in your life to be as unique as you are it's also said to be the first smartphone designed engineered and assembled in America but there's another motorola phone that got an unintended early tease the droid ultra an incomplete page was temporarily published live on motorola's website about a smartphone called the droid ultra and while it was up it said the droid ultra would be thin and as tough as steel it also said it would be available in a bunch of glossy colors with a DuPont Kevlar body since it's called the droid ultra you can figure it's going to be sold by verizon which sells phones with the droid branding the page that it was published to now just redirects to the home page so we'll have to wait to learn more get ready for a new rush of Internet domain names New York City is now the first place in the u.s. to get its own top-level domain with dot NYC businesses can apply to end their website URLs with dot NYC of course comp will always be king but it's just another option now for business owners who wants something more unique than dot biz expect more unique URL domains from brands to roll out later this year Facebook stickers can now be sent in private messages to other users from the website Facebook first launched these goofy sticker expressions in April on Facebook smartphone apps but now these elaborate character emoticons can be sent from the website you'll find 16 free packs of characters just go to the smiley face icon when writing a private message click on the shopping cart for more sticker options if you want to listen to songs up for free now you have to interact with an advertisement the streaming music service has become very popular for its pre-built playlist that suit any type of mood you're in maybe you want a playlist when you're strutting outside or background jams for your weekend barbecue songs and now streams half a billion songs every month and to pay those royalties Songza has a new twist if you want to listen for free you have to interact with an ad on the screen for a few seconds and then you get 24 hours of interruption free listening but you can also pay for club Songza it eliminates all ads for the price of one dollar a week that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey