Gadgetory

Google has new eyes for your home I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update Google is making a bigger push to become the leader of smart home gadgetry through nest a company it purchased last year that makes smart home thermostats smoke detectors and it also owns the Dropcam home monitoring cameras wellness just announced a few upgrades to its product line it's ditching the Dropcam brand for a new name it's now the nest cam and it's upgraded with 1080p resolution so you can monitor your pets in high-def clarity this indoor camera costs $200 and it brings night vision and motion and sound alert monitoring if you want to archive your video footage that's gonna be an extra service you have to buy called nest aware it starts at $10 a month an upgraded nest Protect's smoke detector is coming out next month for $100 if it detects smoke it can tell your nest thermostat to turn off and then send your phone and alert also getting an upgrade is Amazon's Kindle paperwhite e-reader it does all the same things as before but now it has a better high resolution display it's actually the same screen as the more expensive top-of-the-line model Kindle voyage the voyage is $200 and this new paperwhite is 120 and it's available for pre-order now shipping on June 30th there are some changes going on in the social media world this week Facebook came out with a new app it's called moments and it's on a mission to make it easier to share photos among friends often we never get around to sending photos to our friends because uploading can be a hassle but Facebook's app can scan all the photos who took on your phone lump them together based on faces and the time they were taken and then you can give select friends access to the groups of photos they are in now Facebook recommends who to share a photo with by using facial recognition technology this is the same system that is used to suggest who to tag in a photo and you can turn that off in settings it's a bit unnerving to give Facebook access to your entire camera roll but it's not posted online unless you tell it to post it on Twitter you're gonna now notice videos will now begin to autoplay just like Facebook does not only is it annoying but it's a huge data drain on your phone so be sure to go into settings and either turn it off or change it so it only auto please when you're on Wi-Fi and YouTube is hoping to draw in more of the gaming community with a new hub just for watching other people's video game streams it's called YouTube gaming and it's Google's way of competing with twitch a popular video game live streaming site owned by Amazon now this hub is going to pull in all of YouTube's gaming videos and it will go live in a few weeks that's it for this tech news update there's always more at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey