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Facebook wants to destroy the need for apps one bought at a time I'm Bridget Carey this is you're seen that update soon you won't just be chatting with your friends on Facebook Messenger you're also be chatting with BOTS built by companies at Facebook's f8 Developers Conference Mark Zuckerberg revealed that shot bots are coming to messenger one such bot could be for news CNN made one that sends you a list of stories of the day and you can ask it to pull up stories on a certain topic you can also go shopping inside Messenger 1-800 flowers built a chat bot that lets you order flowers for delivery and it just pulls all data about you from your account and asks you a few questions about the order along the way Facebook is not the first to jump on this chat bot trend other messaging apps including Skype have been rolling out similar tools the app telegram added BOTS a year ago with a few new tools just announced a bot from YouTube can help you find and share YouTube videos or add Foursquare to your chat and it'll pull up addresses of places nearby so you can expect similar chat bot tools are gonna come to Facebook Zuckerberg also wants to see Facebook live video broadcast grow live video will be a prominent tab on the app to see not only what your friends are doing but to check out what other people around the world are up to and programmers can incorporate Facebook live into other apps such as being able to stream video right from a drone camera as Zuckerberg demonstrated on stage that wasn't the only drone discussed Zuckerberg talked more about the drone airplane that the companies building to get more people connected online this v-shaped plane has the wingspan of a Boeing 737 it weighs less than a small car it can fly twice as high as normal commercial flights and with solar panels that can stay up for a few months at a time beaming internet access down below to earth in a few months Facebook will also launch its first satellite into space to provide free internet to 14 countries in Africa virtual reality is obviously a major focus for Zuckerberg as Facebook owns oculus Zuckerberg told the audience that it was just a mad of time before virtual and augmented reality headgear will be shrunk into a pair of normal glasses he said Facebook is exploring new ways to be social in virtual reality and to encourage the creation of more virtual reality and 3d video Facebook showed off a 360-degree camera it designed with 17 lenses but it won't be sold by the social network Facebook wants developers to take the design and create it themselves that's all for this tech news roundup you can head to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey