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because these days to get young people to use your messaging app you need a unique video triste at least that's what Yahoo is thinking when it launched a new app called live text you are streaming a video feed of yourself while you're typing so people can see your expressions as you type but with no audio speaking is pointless you're just basically staring at someone looking at a screen texting you giving us yet another new way to communicate snapchat does the whole short disappearing video thing vine does the short looping video thing and live text does the silent film video with text thing this is what the future has become and speaking of the future remember that hoverboard Lexus was working on well after teasing everyone for more than a month the company says it will show it off in action next week on Wednesday August fifth but don't get your hopes up the company has said it only works in a controlled environment what you see in the promo video with concrete is actually a special set build with magnets underneath this stunt is supposed to impress us as if they recreated the hoverboard made famous in the movie back to the future part two where Marty McFly wrote a floating skateboard in the year 2015 but Lexus you know it's nice looking at all with your nitrogen smoke pouring out of it but you've said this isn't for sale so please stop bothering us with this at least not until you get it to work on water and here's something that actually makes our future lives better Google Translate app has added 20 more languages to its live camera translation it brings the total amount of languages it recognizes to 27 you can point your camera to the printed text and get a visual translation or you can use the app to manually type or speak what you want translated the update is rolling out to iOS and Android over the next few days that's it for this tech news update and you can always get more news at cnet com and you'll also video with sound from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey