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websites may die but ice cream is forever I'm Bridget carrion this is your cnet update oh how the mighty have fallen what's left of the social news aggregator dig has been bought by beta works and dig will be buried inside news dot me it's a daily news app and email digest did has been struggling and was slowly disassembled a subsidiary of the Washington Post bought the dig team techCrunch reports have paid about 12 million dollars for the talent linkedin paid about four million for a few of the patents and the Wall Street Journal says that beta works took all the remaining bits for half a million dollars back in 2006 Businessweek ran a cover story on how the co-founder Kevin Rose made 60 million when the site first launched and four years ago it was almost bought by google for 200 million dig made a big impact in online publishing but seems the era is over DIRECTV isn't the only television provider and a scuf with networks because dish network dropped AMC last month over a dispute and fees so unless there's a resolution dish customers will miss out on the new season of breaking bad but at least for the sunday season premiere dish subscribers could log on to AMC to watch the live stream in other news we're watching if you have more than one google account you can now merge your Google+ accounts into one but you can't take back a transfer also it takes two days to merge the accounts during which you can't post or make changes to your circles facebook has debuted another new feature on the right hand corner where you see birthdays you'll now see notification of friends getting married or engaged also Microsoft is holding an event Monday we're expecting to hear about a new version of microsoft office and we got our eye on the uber app today uber is a quick way to request a car or SUV for pick up and have the right automatically billed to your credit card but there was a new twist to the app on friday the company let users summit an ice cream truck seven major cities got the chance to order ice cream on demand some blogs have reported that this could be a new feature but an uber employee in New York told us that this was a marketing tactic and they'd done these before with other food trucks recently announced ability for our riders to be able to get a specific vehicle type and so we're sort of celebrating the ability to get more choice by offering them the choice of an ice cream truck we've got cool house here they make some of the most incredible ice cream sandwiches I've ever had we're also working within lewin and sort of every city it's a case-by-case basis still it was a sweet feature that would make a great app don't you think that your tech news update for today for more on the stories in today's show visit cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey