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Facebook has another video app for you to download I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update hey kids there's another way for you to create and share video on social media if periscope meerkat vine and snapchat weren't enough for you now Facebook has riff it's a new app for making short videos with your friends that are about a single topic on riff you can start a fresh topic or jump into an existing topic someone else started so let's say it's about bananas you record 20 seconds of a video about a banana and if your friend jumps in and then his or her friends seat and they jump in the next thing you know there are 100 videos about a banana on Facebook and that makes Facebook happy because more people are uploading video and that means the network can make more money from advertisers so the next time a viral video of movement comes along like the ice bucket challenge or the Harlem shake maybe it'll take off on riff or maybe people will just keep using their phone to record video and upload it manually to Facebook yeah how boring in other news Nintendo has announced a new wave of amiibo figurines going on sale but some characters are sold exclusively at certain stores among the characters coming out on may 29th our pac-man Wario Charizard and Jigglypuff a total of fifteen will be out in September including dr. Mario similar to skylanders and Disney infinity you put these little characters on a sensor to play them in a game in the fall there will also be little Yoshi's made with actual yarn to play in the game Yoshi's woolly world Nintendo has sold more than 5.7 million of these amiibo figurines and these toys will also unlock a short demo of a classic Nintendo game from NES or Super NES and you can buy them in the Virtual Console store in mobile news google is giving you one less reason to log into google plus a major perk of the social networking app is that it automatically saves an online backup of your phones photos but now Google is adding this photo backup ability to another app the Google Drive app for iOS and Android Google Drive can automatically save copies of your photos and videos from your smartphone or tablet also your photos from Google Plus will we'll show up in Google Drive it looks like Google's taking steps to separate Google's photo services from Google+ and Dyson has a new space looking blade free fan that also purifies air it's called the pure cool the purifying fan has a 360 degree glass HEPA filter that's supposed to filter out ultrafine particles including cigarette smoke its first coming to China and Japan and there's no price yet for the US but it's safe to say that it'll be more money than you want to spend about three hundred to four hundred and fifty dollars that's your tech news update for Moorhead to cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey