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you could soon pay for your zombie killing plants with Facebook I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update you can log into websites by using your Facebook credentials but how about paying for stuff with Facebook the social media giant is apparently working on a new payment feature according to all things digital Facebook is planning to test a mobile payment service in the next month or so it would little pay for products with just their facebook login the idea is that you would have credit card info stored in your profile and if a mobile app asked for a payment it could just tap into the card you have on file with Facebook the network will partner with the shopping site Jackthreads to test it out but if this takes off it would compete with services like PayPal imagine seeing a pay now with facebook button when you're shopping online you can turn any wall or flat surface into a touch screen with new software called ubi that uses microsoft kinect for windows sensor along with a projector it can be used for business meetings store displays or even just playing angry birds on the wall the Ubisoft where starts at one hundred and fifty dollars but you do have to buy the kinect sensor and the projector separately kin shows are the hot battleground for streaming services as Amazon and Netflix fight over having more content to babysit your kids Netflix made a deal to show scholastic programs like the Magic School Bus and goosebumps although those shows are kind of old there is new kids content on the way it's working with DreamWorks to bring 300 hours of original kids programming based on DreamWorks movie characters and Netflix also has the rights to some PBS shows amazon is also pushing to create its own original shows and it recently scooped up the rights to show Nickelodeon content if you're looking for a simple puzzle game to kill time check out dots it's a popular free iOS matching game and it just arrived on Android and on the kindle fire but if you like a little more adventure in your mobile games get out your sunflowers the zombies are coming the highly-anticipated plants vs zombies sequel has arrived and this time you're not defending your house from waves of the undead plants vs zombies 2 sends you back in time to new lands yo battle ancient Egyptian mummy zombies and pirate zombies and cowboy zombies in the Wild West there were also new types of plants and different power-ups but if you're a real big fan of the game you might be sad to learn that some of the plants from the original are locked behind a paywall you don't need them to beat the game but if you want squash snow pea and jalapeno you have to pay up that's your tech news update and you can read up on more details at cnet com / update and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey