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there's a superstar player that's trading teams and i'm not talking about Jeremy Lin I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update time to dust off that yahoo email account and freshen up your Flickr page because yahoo is cool again with its new CEO 37 year old Marissa Mayer she's previously one of the top executives at Google and she's Google's first female employee she oversaw every Google product you interacted with maps email search it all went through her and you can expect her to breathe new life into yahoo services as well as inspire talented engineers to work with team Yahoo oh and she announced that she's pregnant with her first child a powerful woman in tech CEO of a fortune 500 company and also a mommy to be a rocket girl oh and there was some other yahoo news that totally got trumped by the new CEO announcement Yahoo launched this online sci-fi animated series produced by Tom Hanks called electric city it's all groundbreaking and shows focus and online video but heck who knows if Yahoo will still keep focus on unique media because mayor is a wild card the daily deal site livingsocial is following Groupon steps and is selling merchandise so in addition to the usual discounts for spa visits dancing lessons and weekend getaways you can buy physical products livingsocial kicked off the offering with beach themed items Groupon began doing this last year if you don't want an okie reader you can still download and read electronic books from your desktop web browser with the new service called nuke for web support for tablets and smartphones is coming in the fall amazon already has offered the ability to read from your browser for a while now there's a new version of Firefox that improves privacy and security you can make sure that no one can spy on your Google search is now even over public networks and if you're a fan of oversized phones many tablets or phablets then you'll be interested to hear that in a few weeks t-mobile will be selling the samsung galaxy note a smartphone with a 5.3 inch screen in cute things on the internet news the best cat videos of the web will be featured in a cat video film festival yeah this is a real thing the Sun Dance for low cats takes place at the end of August and Minneapolis and if you're looking for a way to escape the summers record high heat how about trip to the South Pole because Google just added more 360 degrees Street view images of the Antarctic it's to help kids learn about South Pole explorations or you could just count order wittle penguins that's 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