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live video broadcasts are coming to your Facebook feed I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update you can now broadcast live video to your friends on Facebook it's all in real time and it works just like Twitter's periscope app this new feature is first being rolled out to a small percentage of people in the US with iPhones and here's how it works you'll start a broadcast from the mobile app and friends can write comments as they watch the broadcaster can also like a comment during a broadcast and you're going to see the number of people watching as well as their names when it's over the videos posted to the person's timeline and it can be viewed again there's also a subscribe button for viewers to get notified the next time that person goes live obviously this is going to be a major challenger to the periscope app which is popular with Twitter users so if you're in a big event are you going to choose to share with your Facebook friends or the open world of Twitter Facebook is trying to become more like Twitter as a media hub and a place to discover breaking news this feature was something Facebook first reserved only for celebrity accounts back in August meanwhile there's a familiar face attempting to come back in the chat Kingdom yahoo right now we have tons of chat apps there's facebook Messenger snapchat whatsapp and Google Hangouts to name a few of the big ones but it wasn't that long ago that AOL and Yahoo ruled the chat world with budding lists and screen names well Yahoo Messenger has returned in app form and it hopes to stand apart with a new feature the unsend yes you can take back a message you regret sending maybe it's good for drunk textures but that also can cause fights when proof of a conversation could just vanish at any moment yahoo messenger also lets you send a huge number of photos in an instant and it's tying in tumblr gifts search so you can quickly reply with an animated gif which is something you can also easily do on facebook Messenger the new yahoo messenger app is available for androids and iPhones but the timing of the launch is a bit awkward there have been anonymous source reports that Yahoo is considering to sell off some of its business hmm but there's much bigger news breaking in the texting world those of you with nexus smartphones and tablets are going to be the first of the Android clan to get the new emoji icons Apple folks have been flaunting the unicorn the taco and dozens of other new icons and faces for a few months now since iOS 9.1 came out in October but soon these emoji are also going to show up on Android the vice president of Android tweeted the news that is rolling out next week and it starts with Nexus devices that's it for this tech news update and there's more as cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey