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Apple's tuning up for its next big announcement I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update on Monday June eighth apples set to make several software announcements at its annual Developers Conference known as WWDC we should hear about upgrades to the operating systems but also many are expecting Apple to reveal a new layer to iTunes it's been reported that Apple's creating a paid music streaming service similar to Spotify you could think of it as Netflix for music giving you the power to listen to anything you want on demand as long as you pay a monthly fee The Wall Street Journal spoke with unnamed sources that said it's going to cost ten dollars a month Apple is likely building on the existing beats music service remember it purchase beats last year for three billion dollars itunes is the king of downloads but streaming is an area of growth right now and Apple wants a piece of it if you subscribe to something like this you may end up paying a hundred and twenty dollars over the course of a year and that's probably more than your spending now on music downloads at the last WWDC show Apple introduced home kit which is Apple's standard for getting smart home products to communicate with one another and have your iphones serve as the control hub for everything now a year later companies are launching products that work with Apple's home kit the first is Lou tron's home lighting control hub Apple stores are selling a starter pack for two hundred and thirty dollars so instead of going to the lutron app to control it you can say hey Siri turn on the lights there's some speculation that on Monday Apple's going to debut a streaming paid television service but don't count on it Apple said to be working on a service for watching live TV over the Internet similar to sling TV now recode reports that this Web TV product maybe a year or more away but you can follow the announcement live on Monday it starts at ten a.m. Pacific 1 p.m. eastern but to switch gears to other streaming news amazon is giving you a new way to stream video games to your television amazon partnered with gamefly to stream some well-known games on fire TV players you can run from six different themed game bundles for seven to ten dollars a month and games include titles from Batman's Arkham series and the lego themed games speaking of Lego the game Lego dimensions coming out in September just added a new wrinkle the game is Legos answer to Skylanders and it just announced new expandable character packs which include the simpsons Doctor Who Jurassic world ghostbusters and scooby-doo some of the vehicle toys can be rebuilt to take on different properties when scanned into the game so for example the Batmobile pieces can be turned into a bat blaster or a sonic bat ray put it on the platform scanner and you can switch between which you play in the game that's all for this tech news update but there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey goodbye