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Google wants more logo love for Android I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update there are quite a number of smart phones running android all with different hardware and branding and keeping track of all the models can get messy there are galaxies and notes nexuses and Max's ones and z ones and some folks call everything a droid but it looks like Google wants to make things more clear for consumers a report from Android police and geek.com suggests that Google will require future Android phones to show a powered by android logo when the phone boots up and the evidence is there with the latest HTC One m8 it shows the logo on a splash screen and t-mobile posted an amateur quality unboxing video of the Samsung Galaxy s5 which is not yet released but it also shows the android logo when it boots up Google's video streaming TV stick just added a few apps and now streams video from the crackle and voodoo apps and are also constrained music from our do the $35 hdmi stick is used to fling videos and apps from a mobile device to your living room big screen in other video news amazon is expanding its first original series it's a political comedy called alpha house amazon is making a full series out of the 10 shows it tested for a pilot season amazon will also produce six other original shows all in the push to go after netflix which as you know also has its own original programming to see amazon shows you need to subscribe to amazon prime which will cost a hundred dollars a year there's a growing trend of using biometrics to secure your phone the iPhone 5s it can unlock with a fingerprint and new Android phones can unlock with a photo of your face but there's an updated app that gives iPhone owners the power to log into websites with their face it's called face crypt and there's a free version which will store your important financial data passwords and documents in the app and you can require your face for access but the paid version which is seven bucks takes it a step further and includes its own brow zur so you can have an auto fill out your login for websites after it scans your face and I tried it out and I would say the free one is interesting but it's not yet ready for prime time and it's not worth seven dollars too often there were error messages popping up but if you're curious about the concept you can also check out an app called fast access anywhere which is for iOS Android and Windows and it lets you unlock websites with a selfie but it's also a little clunky to use that's your tech news update head on over to cnet.com for more details on these stories from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey