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feel the force flowing through your google apps I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update if you did already have enough star wars movie hype in your life google is giving its apps a Star Wars design makeover if you visit google.com / Star Wars you can choose to have little geeky Star Wars things pop up across your devices when you're using google what you see depends on if you choose the light side or the dark side the theme is woven into the Chrome browser with an add-on and you'll also find the force hidden within the chromecast gmail google search google translate and youtube among others on maps the little peg man to take you to street view changes to a stormtrooper or rebel Starfighter pilot the ways traffic app owned by google also transforms to show characters and icons from the force awakens on your route and you can also give voice directions from c-3po if you have a change of heart you can switch to the other side at any time or disable it but it will vanish for everyone in February expect more Star Wars Easter eggs to pop up from google as we get closer to the movie's release on December eighteenth now the folks over at Yahoo may not have created a star wars-themed to its male but many people that use yahoo are crying out that the company has joined the dark side because it looks anyone that uses an ad block or tool people are taking a twitter and message boards to complain that yahoo asks you to disable ad blocker if you want to continue using yahoo mail yahoo has said that this is a test running for a small number of yahoo mail users in the US if you're unfamiliar with how ad blocking works the software will prevent a page from loading advertisements sometimes an ad blocker causes a website to load incorrectly but that's the price some don't mind paying to avoid popups and adds that track you Yahoo's not the first to fight back against the software The Washington Post also refuses to load for those that block ads you can't blame them for fighting to save their main source of revenue but speaking of fighting on there's one tech company that seems to have given up on its product completely after an epic failure LG has stopped taking orders for its latest SmartWatch and canceled the rollout of the device just six days after it was on the market the LG watch urbane second edition has been pulled due to a complicated hardware issue LG is not going into much detail other than saying that there's no safety danger to anyone that does own one LG has not decided if the device will ever go back on sale again this stylish SmartWatch has received positive early reviews and it was the first android wear watch to have its own cellular connection with a sim card you can make calls and get alerts without needing your phone but that also meant you needed a data plan for your watch 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