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how much does Facebook impact your vote I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's good to be back in the studio as many of you know our new york office was without power for the past week because of Hurricane sandy thanks for all your support and thanks to the San Francisco cnet team for helping us get to show out in the meantime Apple has reported that it sold three million iPads in the first weekend the new models went on sale and that's across 34 countries it's double the amount of ipads sold from the launch in March but this time Apple is counting two products sold it's a combo of the new fourth-generation ipad model and the minis Tuesday is election day in the US and Facebook doesn't want you to forget millions of facebook users that are of voting age will see a message on Tuesday reminding them to vote studies show that Facebook does affect how people vote many are persuaded by peers rather than by their civic duty and many say they are more active in political issues because of what they read on social media and you can arrive to your polling place in style using the uber app the car service app is offering a free ride in a black car on Tuesday for anyone who has not used the uber app before the trip must begin or end at a national polling location and is valid during your city's voting hours if you're looking for an entry-level tablet deal Barnes & Noble dropped the price of last year's nook tablet to 160 dollars for the eight gig model and 180 dollars for 16 gigs the nut color dropped to one hundred forty dollars but that new nook HD tablet is still two hundred dollars twitter is working on a way to let you put photo filters on pictures posted with the twitter app this is according to a report from the New York Times these filters would be similar to what Instagram offers in its app also over the past few days tens of thousands of Instagram users were duped by spam accounts posing as major airlines all promising the same deal a free flight to the first 10,000 or 20,000 followers and you have to mention the account of course people didn't stop to think about how it was too good to be true to give away twenty thousand tickets or that there was no way to contact the winner nor was there a list of rules it took a while for Instagram disables some of these accounts as of Monday afternoon the fake account for Southwest Airlines was still up and running promising bogus free flights airlines have been trying to counteract the spam by tweeting that these are fake accounts spam on Instagram is on the rise and you have to watch out for this junk that's your tech news update for today you can find links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey