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periscope wins round one of the live streaming fight and may the 4th be with you I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update periscope is the hot new way to pirate video the iOS app for broadcasting live video now owned by Twitter was a popular way to watch Saturday's boxing match against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather without paying one hundred dollars for pay-per-view periscope users pointed their iPhone cameras at their TV screens to broadcast a bootleg feat of the fight to anyone in the world people on periscope were warning Watchers not to draw attention to the feed or else it gets shut down by administrators and when that happened it just prompted viewers to jump to someone else's periscope broadcast even Twitter CEO Dick Costolo acknowledged the movement and took a job of his own with a tweet rival app meerkat was also a hot spot for fight feeds meerkat was a streaming sensation when it launched in late februari but quickly dropped in popularity when Twitter's periscope appeared meerkat is fighting on and now it's tying into Facebook feeds if you start a meerkat stream you can announce it to your Facebook friends and you can also connect with contacts in your address book the app has an Android advantage as well meerkat just launched on the Google Play Store it's a bit buggy but there's still no Android version of periscope meanwhile in a galaxy not so far away on may the 4th the day that has become known as a star wars holiday geeks around the world have been gifted with a few teaser tidbits for the upcoming movie The Force awakens Vanity Fair promoted its upcoming magazine issue featuring a photo shoot of the new cast by Annie Leibovitz fans get a better look at new characters like Poe Dameron some strange new hive of scum and villainy the pre CGI face of Lupita Nyong'o playing Maz Kanata kylo ren beam all evil in the snow and the heroine ray on a speeder the magazine hit stands May twelfth over in Australia fans built the world's largest Millennium Falcon out of Lego bricks and they only did it in two days and may the savings be with you because the day is also become something of a black friday for fans amazon thinking and disney all held sales for Star Wars merchandise but fans may want to save their money for September fourth that's the official day when new movie merch and toys will go on sale but before we parked a toast to an actual space hero Italian astronaut Samantha Christopher Eddie the first Italian woman in space is now also the first space barista to boldly brew she tweeted a photo of her sipping the first espresso made in space aboard the International Space Station and in true nerd fashion she's wearing the uniform of Star Trek's Captain Janeway known for her love of coffee that's your tech news update you can head over to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey