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forget flying cars the hoopla now is about the Hyperloop I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update give it about 10 to 15 years and we could be traveling between cities at super high speeds and clear tubes at least that's the concept being pitched by Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX he and his team released a 57-page outline of the proposed Hyperloop system which are shotgun like tubes that use electromagnetic energy to accelerate pods of passengers up to 800 miles per hour passengers would get from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes whereas normally it takes about five and a half hours or so to drive by car if you're thinking about the intro to futurama well it's not exactly like that people would be sitting down and the g-forces felt would be similar to writing in an airplane but it's not subject to turbulence this is just a proof of concept being shared because musk says he has to focus his resources on Tesla and SpaceX but the entrepreneur shared this report in the hopes that someone would be encouraged to take on the project so how much could it cost to build musk says six billion dollars to connect LA in San Francisco which is ten times less than the cost of the proposed California high-speed rail project Facebook updated its mobile website and apps with new tricks you can make restaurant reservations and look up TV show listings on some brand pages Facebook is busy trying all sorts of things to keep you on the app it just bought a company that does speech-to-speech translation so give it a few months and maybe we'll just talk to our phones to post a status update and listen to comments if you wish your television had a little more curve Samsung officially unveiled its 55-inch curved OLED TV it'll sell in the US for nine thousand dollars that price is going to sting LG because it began selling its curved OLED for 15 grand you've seen OLED displays and Samsung smartphones but as for the curve they say it's supposed to make for a more immersive viewing experience or maybe it's just something cool to show off to your friends and oddly enough neither company is selling a non curved OLED TV in the US if you want the xbox one but you don't care for the kinect microsoft is reversing its stance and now it says the new game system will not require the connect to be attached the kinect will still come included in the box there was some pushback from people who didn't like the idea of a camera and microphone sensor always being connected in their living room and some just didn't care to use the Kinect but keep in mind the Kinect can always just be turned off if it weird you out that's your tech news update you can read up on more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey