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facebook wants you to care more about the news and there's new tech for tracking Santa I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update facebook is hoping to raise the quality of posts on your newsfeed by showing you more links to news articles and fewer mean images and clickbait junk articles facebook wants you to engage more with posts from high quality websites so it may suggest more news stories to read on a similar subject and if you feel like you keep seeing the same stuff over and over again that's because facebook is resurfacing stories that keep getting new comments if smart glasses are on your holiday wish list but you can't get google glass the company music's is selling its version of a computerized headset for one thousand dollars it's the m100 smart glasses and they're available for pre-order with a ship date of two to four weeks it has a small screen that sits near your eye and it also has a 5 megapixel camera it's powered by Android and features Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS a speaker for your ear and a microphone it can link to a phone with pre-installed apps if it sounds a little too geeky for you well the company says it's targeting this to the professional market like say people who need to do inventory quickly in a stock room and they could just take photos and scan barcodes with the headpiece camera Apple just paid 200 million dollars to buy a company called top C which sorts through data on Twitter top C is the go-to company for tracking Twitter conversation trends during big events like for example the Super Bowl so what can Apple do with the power of Topsy perhaps it can help Apple sell more songs on iTunes when it detects an artist is trending on Twitter or maybe Apple just wants to use the engineering team to quickly detect trends in its App Store tracking Santa this year just got a little more touch screen friendly thanks to microsoft for the second year in a row the Santa tracking team at NORAD partner with Microsoft and the company gave the website NORAD Santa org a redesign so it works best on internet explorer 11 and it lets you spin a 3d glow with your finger if you're using a Windows 8 touchscreen tablet or laptop the website has plenty of games and activities to keep you busy up until Christmas bing maps will track Santa's journey and this year you can contact the NORAD Santa tracking command center with skype but you can still dial the number from a telephone if you want and there's a Santa tracking app for Windows that has a live tile to see Santa's progress on Christmas Eve from your Start screen 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