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Facebook is finding new ways to take your money I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update would you pay seven dollars to get your facebook post seen by more friends it's a feature that some users in the u.s. can now try out Facebook first began testing this concept back in May and it's already in 20 other countries but this is the first time that some in the US get a chance to pay to show off their big news or perhaps get more attention to an item they're trying to sell Facebook hasn't shared an official price for promoting a post it's still in test mode but when we tried it it costs seven bucks let me know what you think of the idea and what would be a reasonable price send an email to update at cnet com expect for future Android phones to be able to automatically tag friends and pitchers because Google just bought the Ukrainian company butyl which creates facial recognition software this auto-tagging may also be seen on Google+ in the near future where you know it'll just know your face you may also see this on Facebook because it also bought this technology earlier this year toys r us has launched its own streaming video hub at toys r us movies com there are more than 4000 shows movies start at three dollars for a one-day rental or they can be bought for less than 10 bucks and most kid TV shows are priced at two dollars eventually this will be available through apps on Android and Apple devices and of course it'll be on toys roses new kid tablet the tabeo the Mars rover is just a check-in away from being near Mars NASA's Curiosity rover is the first moving thing to use foursquare to check in on another planet for those of you keeping score at home that's the second check in made outside of planet Earth the first was in 2010 when NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock checked in from the International Space Station remember back in april when microsoft and barnes a noble made a new partnership well the two companies announced that this newly formed subsidiary will be called newark media it will focus on digital reading and will soon release a new cap for Windows 8 it appears some details have leaked about research emotions next phone to run blackberry 10 according to a document published by rapid Barry this device is referred to as the Aristo it's thin and the computing power is significant it's got a 1.5 a Hertz dual-core processor with two gigs of ram and 16 gigs of internal storage which can be expanded with a memory card and like other top smartphones it has two cameras the front one can shoot HD video and the back cameras 8 megapixels of course we'll have to wait and see if this is the real deal and if this Hail Mary attempt will score against other smartphones that your tech news update for today but we have more details on today's stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey