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Google's next wearable might ditch the phone and researchers make a giant scientific breakthrough amaya's akhtar filling in for Bridget Carey this is your cnet update according to a report from The Wall Street Journal Google is working on a new virtual reality headset that would be self-contained that means it would not be tied to a phone or a computer the headset itself would house its own outward facing cameras processor and have its own screen this is a different approach compared to Facebook's oculus rift device which is powered by a hefty computer the report says we may see Google's new VR headset as early as May during Google's i/o conference the journal sources also say Google is reworking Android to handle virtual reality devices in actual reality news researchers announced they have detect gravitational waves for the first time gravitational waves were theorized by Einstein's theory of general relativity so what are these gravitational waves they are the byproduct of two black holes colliding when these black holes collided they produced these energy ripples through space the actual collision happened 1.3 billion years ago and billions of light years from Earth the waves were detected in September 2015 by the laser interferometer gravitational-wave Observatory their findings were published in the journal Physical Review Letters this is also the first time binary black holes were observed why is this a big deal speaking to the BBC professor Bernard shut said with gravitational waves we do expect eventually to see the Big Bang itself from amazing to amusing there's a new microsoft garage project that recognizes dogs using artificial intelligence you can upload a picture to the website what hyphen dog net the site also has a bunch of photos of dogs so you can see Microsoft's AI in action or you can download an iOS app called fetch if the AI can't figure out exactly the dog breed it will show the percentage of the closest breed the app also includes a section on dog breeds so you can learn your heart out fetch correctly identified my dogs as labrador retrievers and of course we tried it around the office to see what dogs we look like apparently i'm a dutch shepherd dog and my son is an australian terrier that's news to me that's it for this tech news update for everything else head on over to cnet com from our studios in New York Amaya's actor