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I sure hope Santa doesn't use Apple maps I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you use apples Maps in Australia you might wind up stranded and in need of rescue in the past few weeks police in the state of Victoria have had to rescue six people who were stuck in the wilderness after following driving directions from Apple maps some were stranded a whole day without food and water they were trying to get to a city called madura and apples Maps took people 70 kilometers off course to the middle of a national park the police say that anyone traveling in the area should use other maps until Apple can fix the problem Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously apologized for the bad software and has encouraged users to try out other map programs the Twitter Instagram drama continues this week Instagram photos are no longer displaying inside of a tweet users have to click that Instagram link to see photos and that's because Instagram wants to drive clicks to its own pages both sites are becoming photo sharing rivals twitter has been working on its own tool for adding filters to a photo and the latest report claims that these new filters will be available before the end of the year some find a noteworthy that twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has between a bunch of black and white photos lately he could be testing a new feature the White House is joining Pinterest the president already has a Pinterest account in his own name that was supporting his re-election campaign but this is different the White House account which will launch December 17th will be posting images and information relating to life inside the White House valve the company that created the hit video game portal and the online game downloading shops team has confirmed its working on its own gaming hardware set-top box that will compete with PlayStation Xbox even Apple TV this steam box would be a living room friendly computer that could pull in games from the steam online store apple and google have put aside their differences to team up to buy a thousand of kodak's imaging patents kodak put the patents up for sale after it filed for bankruptcy and bloomberg reports the companies will spend 500 million dollars on the patents you've seen small business owners use the square credit card reader and you may have heard about the square wallet app that lets you pay for a meal without ever taking out your wallet or your phone now the square wallet app added a gift card service you can send someone a virtual gift card to one of the hundreds of thousands of businesses that use square you just need to know the email address of the recipient if the person you're giving it to doesn't have the square wallet up they'll have to print out a QR code to bring into the store to be scanned that's your tech news update you can find links to all of these stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey