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people are flipping over a new Flipboard feature I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update get ready for more ads in your facebook news feed that are based on your browsing history Facebook's testing out a new way to push ads to you based on the websites you visit instead of just based on info from your profile and the pages you like it's great for advertisers but has potential to be annoying for users depending on how Facebook handles it first it'll come to desktop users and eventually mobile if you're doing some spring cleaning and thinking about donating old unwanted stuff you could make some money off of it eBay is working with goodwill industries on a new program called sell it forward right now it's an early test and only available for some California residents but here's how it'll work send use items to ebay in a free postage paid bag if a Goodwill store can sell it within two weeks you score fifty percent of the sales price which is put into a paypal account you can sign up to get an alert when this program is available in your area Walmart is borrowing an idea from Amazon Walmart is testing a locker system in some stores this summer it'll let customers purchase items online and pick them up in the store at a locker that way you know the item you want is there and you don't have to bother with standing in a checkout line in comparison amazon started offering the locker option last year for customers who had a hard time getting deliveries to their door amazon puts its lockers in other retail stores like staples 7-eleven and radio shack if you buy an android phone with verizon it'll be preloaded with a game app store called games portal it works like Apple's game center where players can connect with others in the game network huge news for anyone who has been pulled into the addictive world of plants vs zombies not only is there a sequel to the game in the works but there's also a Facebook spin-off called plants vs zombies adventures where your plants travel to new locations to fight zombies that drag themselves in from multiple directions and you could launch a zombie attack against another face friend flipboard is a popular app for keeping up with news from your favorite websites and social media streams it presents stories in a magazine style layout the version for Apple devices just got an update that has people buzzing now you can make your own magazine and share it with others when you come across the store you like click the plus sign and add it to your magazine you can make a magazine just for stories about niche topics or gather ideas and items that you think are newsworthy that your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and you can follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey