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now you can rant about Xbox on an Instagram video I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet of this lots of news to talk about regarding Samsung and Instagram but let's get to the biggest story first Microsoft it backtracked on its controversial Xbox one used game policy Microsoft listen to complaints from fans and it announced that buying games for the xbox one will be the same simple experience as buying games for the 360 microsoft is also removing the requirement to be always connected to the internet to play your games you see when the new xbox one console was first announced Microsoft was going to put some restrictions on plane used games if you wanted to loan a game to a friend you could only do it once and if you wanted to play a used game you'd have to pay some sort of activation fee first and of course the only way from Microsoft to monitor all this was to require you to connect to the internet every day it was confusing and people were angry well all that complication is gone now one of the biggest differences between PlayStation 4 and the Xbox one is the price the ps4 is one hundred dollars cheaper Instagram just added the ability to share 15-second videos instagram which is owned by Facebook updated its apps with videos that have filters and you could start and stop a video several times before you hit that 15-second limit it only plays once it doesn't loop and you can choose your cover thumbnail before sharing many folks have been saying ooh this is Instagram taking on Twitter's vine app well vine is a six second looping video Instagram is doing something more like the tau app but regardless of what service you like better prepare for a wave of more videos in your social media feed and Samsung announced several new products include a new camera the Galaxy NX is Samsung's most ambitious camera yet it has an interchangeable lens and runs Android 4.2 so you can quickly post your photos wirelessly to any social network or app samsung also showed off its galaxy s4 spin-off smartphones there's the galaxy s4 mini it has a 4.3 inch screen there's the s4 active which is water-resistant and the s4 zoom which has a 10x zoom lens attached to it there's also a new line of Windows PCs and tablets you see Samsung uses the galaxy Branford's android products but it has a new term for Windows products called ative spelled ativ I'm sure everyone's going to mispronounce this but you could just remember that it sounds like you're trying to hold in a sneeze ought to one of the more interesting ones is the octave Q which changes between a windows laptop and Android tablet you'll also find the octave book 9 laptops the octave tab 3 it's a tablet powered by Windows 8 and there's the all-in-one desktop called the octave 15 style that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey