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it's time to complain about evil cable companies I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update comcast and time warner cable America's two largest cable companies agreed to merge forming the ultimate mega evil cable company okay I'm just joking but people sure do hate their cable companies because after the news broke Twitter was filled with people making fun of how horrible life will be for customers under the merger some cry out how it'll raise internet and television costs for consumers and it'll make it harder for rivals to come in and challenge the cable behemoth and by being so large it won't have incentive to do right by customers and improve but these two cable giants of course argue the opposite that this marriage would be good for consumers by saving money and it will improve the tech offerings to better compete against new players like Google Fiber bottom line is that it's not approved yet nothing is changing for a while and you'll still feel grumpy about the quality of your customer service in other giant tech company news Verizon Wireless changed up its data plans to be more competitive there's a new more everything planned that promises more data 25 gigs of cloud storage and unlimited international messaging and for those that are paying for their phone in full to upgrade early with the edge monthly installment plan you'll finally get a break on your service bill which is what the other carriers already offer if you own an xbox one you may soon be able to control it with a new Xbox one remote Amazon's Canadian storefront temporarily published a pre-order page for an item called the Xbox one media remote and before it was taken down screenshots showed that it would go for around twenty-five dollars when it launches on march forth Microsoft has yet to announce such a product but Microsoft is selling a new xbox headset in March and that's not the only Microsoft leaked this image posted on Twitter shows Microsoft is trying to make it easier on app developers with something called universal store it would let programmers create a single app that works for both windows vil and the Windows desktop on Facebook you have more ways now to identify your gender Facebook added about 50 different terms that people can pick from if they don't want to go with male or female some of the choices include androgynous by gender transsexual and gender fluid there's also the option of picking what pronoun you want people to go by him her or them as a neutral choice these new options will be available first for us members that your tech news update beautifil more details at cnet com / update and you can also stay updated by following along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey