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you don't need to pay for HBO to watch HBO I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you don't subscribe to Amazon Prime well you may change your mind because Amazon just sweeten the deal almost every hit HBO TV show including The Sopranos the wire and true blood will be available to stream on Prime instant video if you're not familiar with prime instant video it's basically Amazon's version of netflix and the cost is about the same a little over eight dollars a month HBO gave Amazon the exclusive rights to stream its older programs and seasons of the newer shows like girls the newsroom and veep well they'll also come to Amazon but you'll have to wait three years after the season airs on TV HBO is hoping that you'll binge watch on Amazon get caught up on the plot but then you'll be so hooked to the show that you'll feel compelled to pay for HBO when the new season rolls around on TV but sorry if you like Game of Thrones or true detective because you still have to pay for HBO to see those it's not part of the deal the HBO programming arrives on Amazon next month on May twenty first and if Amazon keeps it up with these exclusive deals Netflix will be in trouble but that's not the only big streaming news Roku owners can finally watch youtube videos on their streaming boxes this is kind of a big deal because Roku devices were able to access pretty much every single internet streaming feed that existed but there was no YouTube channel available until now well technically the new roku 3 had it in December but now everyone with a Roku can use it and if you're watching a YouTube video on your smartphone or tablet a button on the app can throw it to the Roku so everyone can watch it on the big screen TV you know this amazon HBO news is also good news for roku you can't stream amazon on apple TV or google's chromecast basically Roku has become master of the streaming universe but not all change in technology has been for the best this week take for example Twitter's new profile it will eventually roll out to everyone but some brave souls have manually switched to the new look the link to switch is on Twitter's blog but before you dive in brace yourself your main twitter feed looks all normal until you click on your profile and oh my that is not pretty you may need to re-upload a header picture so it won't look so blurry and stretched across the screen seems like Twitter wants to be the professional blog page that you don't mind sharing on a resume with its clean white background and big Facebook feel in the new design you can also pin a tweet to the top of the page so it doesn't get lost in your timeline that's your tech news update you can head to cnet com for more details on these stories from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey