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the world's gone crazy for chromecast I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update everyone's going bonkers about the chromecast when Google unveiled its $35 streaming device for televisions it was only a matter of hours before it was sold out on amazon and the google play store it also quickly sold out on best buy Google Play is selling them again but shipping times can be as long as four weeks and if you can't wait that long some people are selling them on ebay for as much as a hundred dollars it's selling like hotcakes because well the price is crazy cheap at $35 and because it's a very simple solution to playing videos from the web on your big screen it doesn't do everything other streaming devices do and it's not perfect but it has lots of potential it works with Android and Apple phones and tablets if you have the Netflix app or the YouTube app you press a button to push what you're watching to the TV and what's neat is that once you play a video you could walk out of the house and it will keep streaming when more apps add this cast button like Pandora or perhaps Spotify this will be an even better product and no worries about fighting over a remote because every phone or tablet or computer on your network becomes the remote now if you want to use your computer it will stream the content on one tab of your Chrome browser so you can watch videos from websites or play music from streaming services but google says using chrome is still a beta product so you may see some hiccups but for a $35 I don't think people would line about putting up with hiccups be sure to head to cnet com to check out our full review and comparisons against Apple TV and Roku it's been a busy week for google it's also pushing out an update to Android all Nexus devices will be first to get Android 4.3 but we now have confirmation that Sony's Xperia devices will also eventually be getting the update the new Android has small changes like smart bluetooth which means it will sync up with more fitness devices and gamers will enjoy enhanced graphics support families who share a device with multiple accounts you'll now have more control over blocking certain apps for kids or even blocking how much their kids can do inside of an app and google translate homepage can now understand handwriting so for example if you come across a Chinese character you don't understand just draw it with your finger on your smartphone screen and google says it can translate it Google can support handwriting for 45 languages but it's only available on Android right now that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey