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stars become hearts favorites become likes and Twitter loses its mind I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update there are several wild tech stories to talk about today but let's start with one stirring up social media controversy Twitter made a change to its network that's making long time users angry the star icon to indicate you favorite a tweet is now a heart icon to say that you liked it you may wonder why anyone cares that an icon changed but the problem some have is that not everything deserves a love symbol the star was a neutral way of acknowledging you appreciated a post but with hearts the meaning could change crossing over into some possibly awkward territory but today in social media we are throwing hearts all over the place the icon is losing all romantic meaning anyway Instagram uses hearts as likes on Twitter's periscope people pour streams of hearts on top of videos twitter is also changing vine so that it uses hearts instead of smiley faces to make everything hearts twitter is doing this because it thinks new users will not understand stars yeah that's what scares me what is happening to society that companies think we can no longer understand stars it's as if executives go into meetings believing that by communicating with heart emoji more people will use their network and Google thinks we can no longer answer email for ourselves yeah Google's artificial intelligence is now able to offer suggestions on how to reply to your email based on what questions someone is asking you so yeah it's reading your email will you RSVP Google suggests answers that say I'll be there or that I won't make it is anyone looking into this quickly reply with I'll check on it or I'm on it the feature is rolling out to google inbox app on Android and iOS this week during early test google found the Machine kept wanting to reply I love you that's an option to everything but it's working out those quirks so you should still read through your email before using a quick reply so you don't accidentally tell your boss that you love him meanwhile Microsoft is going back on its promise to give office 365 subscribers unlimited online storage in one dry in a blog post microsoft says some people were abusing the unlimited storage so now subscribers only get one terabyte for free but i have a hard time buying this abuse excuse because Microsoft is cutting back on plans everywhere for two bucks a month you could get a hundred gigs of storage but next year two dollars will only buy you half that 50 gigs also everyone got 15 gigs for free when they backed up their photos but that's also being cut back only five gigs free for everyone current and new starting next year Microsoft will be sending out notices if you are using more space than is now permitted warning you that you'll have a limited amount of time to access your files that's it for this tech news update was more cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey