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youtube is working on a new way to bury awful comments I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you browse videos on YouTube then you've seen your fair share of hateful obscene and downright despicable comments left by other users YouTube is owned by Google and the company has struggled to find a way to elevate the quality of conversation but still let people keep their anonymous handles so starting this week YouTube will push certain comments to the top such as comments from videos creators popular personalities and people in your google+ circles the top comment won't just be the most recent it's the most relevant video creators can also block certain users from ever commenting or block certain words to make moderating a little easier Google's Android device manager now has a new trick to protect your phone data from getting into the wrong hands you can now remotely lock the phone with a new password the device manager at first had the ability to remotely ring the phone or tablet in case you lost it somewhere in the couch cushions you can also wipe all the data from afar 200 million Apple mobile devices have upgraded to the new operating system iOS 7 and 11 million people began trying iTunes radio it's the new streaming music service that's only available now in the US eleven million users is four times the number of unique listeners that Rhapsody had in July and if it keeps growing like this it will only take a month to beat Pandora's numbers of course there's something to be said about people who just try something versus actually sticking with it I remember how the social network Google+ gained millions of users right away but people were still spending more time on Facebook iTunes radio is available on mobile devices and also in the latest itunes software update apple's imac all-in-one desktops have been updated with new models that have intel's fourth generation quad-core processors advanced Wi-Fi capabilities and faster flash storage options apple says these new iMacs get a wireless connection that's up to three times faster than previous desktops that is when it's connected to 802 11 a sea-based Shin if you are looking forward to using the blackberry messenger BBM apps on your Android or iOS device you'll have to keep waiting it was supposed to come out over the weekend but an older bad copy with a glitch was leaked for Android users and over a million people downloaded the bad copy it's causing some trouble so blackberry is now trying to block the bad version before releasing the official copy of the app that's your tech news update but you can get more details on these stories at cnet com / update and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey