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it's time to start a new type of sticker collection I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update Google released more details and specs about the first limited edition version of Google glass eye where there are no speakers you'll hear sounds through bone conduction technology where the sound waves travel through your skull to your inner ear it has a 5 megapixel camera that can capture video in 720p the battery said to last a day but video recording and doing live video chat hangouts will drain it faster and these early models will have GPS and text messaging but only when paired with the Android operating system 4.0.3 or higher also users will not see any advertisements while using it at least for now all the developers working on apps for glass have been told they can't have any ads in their apps so it seems Google wants to keep ads out of your eyeball while you warm up to the idea of wearing a computer on your face only a select group of developers and those who entered a contest were able to get the opportunity to buy Google glass but here's something Android fans can order now the galaxy s4 pre-orders have begun for 18 T and US Cellular and the phones will ship on April 30th Facebook updated its iOS app to include shot heads and a new thing called stickers it's not the same as chat heads on Android on Apple these chat icons can only be seen within the Facebook app and in a message iOS users can send these oversized animated characters called stickers which are currently free to send social media always becomes a tool for quickly spreading information about a disaster or emergency and that of course was true for the bombings at the Boston Marathon what's noteworthy from a tech perspective is that law enforcement could be helped in their investigation by all the photos and videos taken by the thousands of spectators at the marathon with smartphones making it easy to record it could become a crowd-sourced record of what happened Boston police took to Twitter to ask people for video of the finish line and the became a resource to track down loved ones through databases put up by Google and the Red Cross and these online resources are important because cell networks are not reliable when there's a massive increase in voice calls during an emergency in Boston shortly after the attack networks were down but text messages worked and that's important to remember if you ever need to reach someone in a crisis use text messages text data travels on a different pipeline than voice calls and if it's backed up text messages will wait in a queue to be sent unlike calls that simply disconnect that's your tech news update you can find more details at Cena comm slash update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey