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there's a new way to get internet at home that doesn't involve a cable or phone company I'm Bridget Carey this is your C net update right now to get internet at home most people sign up for some sort of wired broadband service to be installed like something from your cable or phone provider or you could connect to a cellular network to get online but there's a company that's launching a whole new concept that cuts out the cable and phone companies it's called stary internet it uses millimeter waves to send broadband to your home at superfast speeds up to 1 gigabit which is 10 times the average home broadband speed so what are millimeter waves it's what those Airport body scanning machines use it's an extremely high frequency so how much is this service well no one knows the company is insane but it is first being tested in Boston this summer and you don't need the service to try out a new friendly Wi-Fi hub called starry station that cost three hundred and fifty dollars and it works with any internet service it has a touchscreen with some real handy controls you can see the health of the connection speed which devices are online even set parental controls the promotional video for story plays on our need for something simple because we are always online even your toddler's on the toilet with an iPad how can you control them without this and don't you hate cords what a mess internet life is horrible well the hubs start shipping in March if you want to try it the company behind this also has some interesting history it's from the team that created Aereo which faced legal drama when it delivered local free over-the-air broadcast television to homes through the internet as a streaming video subscription but Aereo is no more let's see how starry shakes things up with Internet service providers but your internet world is going to change more drastically in the near future with Facebook the social network is almost ready to kill the like button as we know it and it's gonna launch reactions which lets you respond to a post with different emotions beyond just a thumbs up it's been in testing for a while now but a story published on bloomberg has facebook saying that it could launch in the next few weeks and Microsoft wants to be part the changing way you get your news online Microsoft released a new app for iPhones and iPads called news Pro it's sort of like Apple news and Flipboard you pick what news topics interest you and you have to log in with Facebook or LinkedIn accounts to get started because it's trying to look at your profile to see what topics you may want to read about based on your job or what things you post it's not perfect so like all these newsreaders it takes some tweaking that's it for this tech news update but you can catch up on the latest at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey