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we've landed on a comet I'm Jeff Bakalar filling in for Bridget Carey and this is your Cena update in a headline ripped from the movie Armageddon the European Space Agency has successfully deployed a lander from its Rosetta spacecraft onto the surface of a moving comet it's already sending signals back home the whole thing lasted about eight seconds and was one of the most complicated landings in history I mean think about it you've got to land a tiny module on a landing area no bigger than six tenths of a square mile oh and did I forget to mention that comet is moving at eighty four thousand miles an hour it's unbelievable gajillion Air Mark Cuban's recent investment in the social video app known as ojo is finally launching the app will compete with vine which is the six-second video sharing service but as its name implies Oh Cho will allow for eight second videos users will be able to shoot longer video and ocho will speed it up to fit there's also video filters audio commentary and other unique features to the service most notably it will also offer a sit back mode that will play continuous loops of videos from all the users you follow ojo hopes this will help separate the service from similar products like vine controversy has erupted over apples i messaging software and now it sounds like the company might be facing a class-action lawsuit over it the suit claims that Apple neglectful II allowed text messages to be lost when a customer switched over from iphone to another non apple device now because I message had been intercepting those texts they never made it over to the users next platform suffice it to say Apple has since offered a way to get those text messages back by turning I message off but the suit seeks damages from before the problem was fixed according to Spotify CEO Daniel Eck Taylor Swift is exactly right about the value of music but not about Spotify underpinning its artists last week Swift pulled her entire catalogue off the streaming service and as a result her latest record called 1989 had the largest sales of any album since 2002 Swift believes that Spotify helps perpetuate the perception that music should be free even though Spotify has already paid out two billion dollars to rights holders x says that's money that would have been lost to piracy believe it or not black friday is only about two weeks away and retailers have already started to tease the biggest deals that customers will only be able to get in stores walmart has unveiled a number of sales that include the original 16 gigabyte ipad mini for two hundred dollars and an android tablet for only thirty dollars that's your tech news update there's always more at cnet com be sure to follow me on Twitter from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Beck alone