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Facebook bites Princeton back and the mat turns 30 I'm Jeff Bakalar in for Bridget Carey this is your Cena update by now you've probably heard of a widely circulated Princeton research paper that concluded Facebook would lose eighty percent of its users by 2017 well Facebook didn't find the paper too amusing and decided to do a little research of its own the company has poked Princeton back with a study of its own releasing a parody report claiming that princeton university itself would lose half its students by 2018 and every single student by 2021 I guess it's a good thing Harvard didn't put out the original report but a social network becoming unpopular why does this ever happen before so have you ever heard of the Nintendo game Nintendo World Championships it was for the original NES well you probably haven't because it's apparently the rarest NES game of all time in fact the company only made 116 copies of the game as a special promotion so now a listing for a copy of the game has popped up on ebay even though the label has been washed away the seller claims it's an original World Championships game right now the auction is at over five thousand dollars but recently a copy of the game in much better condition went for 11 grand in a charity auction 9to5 mac is reporting that a new version of apple set-top box apple TV is incoming it's not the actual TV set that we've been clamoring for but instead will contain a new operating system that's more akin to what iOS looks and feels like it also sounds like the new Apple TV will support the downloading of games directly to the box so if you've recently purchased an Apple TV what should you do or you obviously should just throw it away now I'm kidding the new software will probably be compatible with all those old boxes as well sticking with Apple this year the company's iconic home computer turns 30 which should make everyone watching this feel very old including myself cnet has a huge section carved out to celebrate three decades of the Mac and a whole lot more so be sure to check it out have you got some bitcoins burning a hole in your virtual pocket well now a major online computer retailer is accepting the digital currency as payment tigerdirect is the latest outlet to accept Bitcoin and a move that will help the movement that aims to nudge the platform into relevancy Bitcoin had an explosive 2013 in terms of popularity and interest regardless of whether or not people fully understand it that's your tech news update but you can find more details at cnet com / update and always catch up with the latest stories by following me on Twitter from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Beck alone