Gadgetory

Facebook has seen the future and it comes in 360 degrees I am dan graziano filling in for Bridget Carey and this is your cnet updating facebook is that support for 360 degree videos the first wave of which rolled out on wednesday from a variety of brands there's a video from GoPro that lets you experience a dirt bike ride in the desert and one from Saturday Night Live that puts you in the audience during the 40th anniversary show there's even a video promoting the new Star Wars movie that lets you look around the jakku desert while traveling on our land speeder videos can be viewed on your computer using the google chrome and firefox browsers or on an android device to look around your computer you use your mouse to grab the screen and drag it in any direction on android you simply tilt your device up or down and side to side facebook has said that it plans to bring 360-degree videos to iOS devices in the coming months in other news while Apple has just released iOS 9 for iPhone and iPad devices there's already a new update with some key bug fixes the new version fixed an issue that prevented some users from completing the upgrade from iOS 8 to iOS 9 it will also fix an issue where sometimes alarms and timers wouldn't go off and another one that cost some users to lose cellular service you can download iOS 9.1 by going to settings followed by general and clicking software update on your iOS device staying on the topic of phones blackberry may be looking to make a comeback the one-time powerhouse of smartphones is rumored to be working on an android-powered device which would be the company's first to run Google's mobile operating system the rumored blackberry prive will feature high-end specs like a quad-core Snapdragon 808 processor and a five point four inch quad HD display it may even feature a curved screen similar to the samsung galaxy s6 edge and if rumors turn out to be true a slide out for row keyboard you know like the one featured in old blackberry models the blackberry prive is rumored to be announced in november that's it for your tech news update you can find out more about the stories we talked about over at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Dan Graziano