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your facebook notifications are getting really personal and really busy I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update right now facebook notifications tell you when someone liked your post or when a friend is having a birthday but Facebook is cramming more alerts into the notification bar for things it thinks you may be interested in including sports scores for the team's you follow and reminders about TV shows you like you'll also see weather alerts followed by trending news in your area and nearby restaurant and movies to see if you have location on and you RSVP to an event you may also see a card reminding you of when to leave to get there on time does this remind you of anything because it's exactly like Google now on facebook each of these information chunks are a card that's the same terminology that Google uses facebook says it's slowly rolling this out to iphone and android apps for people in the US this of course is the first time that Facebook is copying features you find in a smartphone Facebook is also working on a personal assistant called M it would let you use messenger to ask questions and it can complete some tasks on your behalf like book a restaurant or get a gift delivered to someone Facebook announced it was working on this back in August but as for Apple's personal assistant Siri well she's being a bit rude to iPhone owners that don't subscribe to Apple music she will not answer questions about music or what's hot right now in the charts unless you pay ten dollars a month for Apple streaming music service she won't even at least give you web search results she could be so sensitive but you know here's a phone that's not easily hurt Mariah's new motorola droid turbo to it was just revealed Tuesday and Motorola says it has a shatterproof display look at that it's fine saved in shatter it also has a battery that lasts two days and it can get a 13 hour charge in just 15 minutes verizon has been pushing out exclusive droid phones since 2009 and only verizon can call them droids because verizon paid Lucasfilm for the rights to use the star wars droid named for its smartphones the turbo 2 starts payments at $25 a month and switching from droids to drones Walmart is asking permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to test drones for making deliveries to customers and parking lots into customer homes this follows in amazon's footsteps which has been talking about drone delivery dreams since late 2013 amazon has done some small tests and so has walmart but Walmart is looking to do outdoor tests down with DJ I brand drones but it needs FAA permission Walmart is also looking to use drones as a surveillance to four buildings and parking lots that's it for this tech news update and there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey