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facebook thinks it needs to explain to us what satire is I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Motorola wanted us to wait a few more weeks to learn about the details of its highly anticipated moto 360 SmartWatch but there's been a change of plans best buy's website just spilled the beans early by posting the price and details oopsie we already knew this SmartWatch runs Android but best buy site revealed a little more about what makes it tick according to best buy it will cost 250 dollars that's fifty dollars more than samsung's new gear live model and twenty dollars more than LG's new G watch the screen is a backlit LCD touchscreen that's about one and a half inches it has Gorilla Glass 3 to protect it from scratches and breaks it's voice-activated with an optical heart rate monitor pedometer and it has bluetooth 4.0 it'll work with most phones and tablets that run Android 4.3 but there are still some secrets unanswered including when does it go on sale Motorola will reveal the SmartWatch at an event on September fourth now you may have noticed a few changes recently in your social media feeds for starters facebook doesn't think we understand humor articles so it has begun labeling articles from the onion as satire the satire tag was first reported by ARS technica and it shows up on the related stories that appear once you click on a post gee thanks Facebook for spoiling the fun of watching people fall for fake news articles in a statement to the press facebook says it's doing this because it was getting complaints from users who felt it was hard to tell apart real news from the onion and over at Twitter the network is changing some of the fundamentals of how sharing works when some people mark a tweet as a favorite it's showing up in others feeds the same way as a retweet so I would Twitter make a favorite the same thing as a retweet because Twitter is desperate for you to discover new people to follow if your Windows computer is crashing and flashing that so comforting blue screen of death it could be microsoft's fault Microsoft's latest Windows security patch is causing some computers to crash and several days after its release Microsoft has pulled the August update and it's recommending that users uninstall this update it was supposed to protect users with security updates and bug fixes but instead it just created a bigger headache if you want to attempt to fix it yourself Microsoft did post a walkthrough but it does require you to do some tinkering with files that your tech news update you can find more details on these stories on my blog post at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey