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Netflix thinks it knows what's best for you I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update on Netflix you have always been able to save an instant queue of shows that you want to watch but now Netflix tells you what it thinks you really want to watch next replacing the instant queue is something called my list Netflix will sort through your list and its algorithm will order it based on what it thinks that you will like the best but if you don't think Netflix truly understands your taste you can switch back to manual list management there is another perk to my list it'll flag any titles that Netflix is about to lose the rights to stream so you can watch it before it disappears Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has more than 1 billion subscribers to Facebook but there are about five billion other people in the world without internet access so Facebook formed a partnership with major tech companies like Samsung Nokia and Qualcomm to find a way to make internet access available to everyone on earth even free in places with economic troubles the group is called internet.org there are many countries out there that have bigger problems than lack of internet access but the group thinks it's reasonable to get more people online with mobile phones when technology becomes much cheaper and more efficient in about 5 to 10 years right now only a third of the world's population roughly 2.7 billion people can get online if your school or your child's school is having the students use the Bing search engine on their computers that could be because the school is hoping to earn some free surface tablets it's part of Microsoft's newly launched program called Bing for schools a school gets points when students use Bing on a regular basis and after a month about 60 students can earn a school a free surface RT with a touch cover it wouldn't take much for a school to rack up a few free tablets and others can sign up at work or home to give their points toward a school and bank for schools also has enhanced privacy controls to filter out inappropriate content which is another incentive for schools to use it over Google garmin the company you know for GPS is taking on the GoPro with new sports and action cameras the verb is a full HD sports camera that records 1080p high def video and it captures 16 megapixel color images in bursts or time-lapse modes the body is waterproof and it will stabilize the image when shooting those shaky sports but with Garmin involved it of course also tracks location the elite version has an internal GPS an accelerometer an altitude meter and Wi-Fi GPS data can be embedded and displayed within the video and Wi-Fi lists the camera communicate with Garmin smartphone apps that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey