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there's a new way to make gifts of yourself for Facebook I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update the amazing super computers in our pockets allow us to communicate with anyone around the globe in ways we've never imagined like with taco emojis and one second looping videos yeah so not only did iPhone users get a bunch of new emoji icons in a software update this week but Instagram has gifted mankind with a new app called boomerang it's on both iOS and Android you create these super short videos they're just one second long without sound and they loop forward and backward forever like a gif why because clearly we're not satisfied with still photos anymore Facebook profile pictures can animate and the iPhone 6s has live photos that move and this excites people because maybe we spend too much time sitting still for hours staring at our phones which brings me to new emoji iPhone owners you'll find 150 new emoji characters in the iOS 9.1 software update among the new icons are several foods like a taco and a chili pepper and animals like a unicorn and a lion and some weird Smiley's like the money mouthface and yes there's even a middle finger if you send it to someone who did an update or someone with an Android or Windows Phone they won't likely be able to see the icons until those operating systems update to support the new Unicode symbols and there's one emoji in particular that has an interesting story behind it the eye inside of a speech bubble is not an official approved unicode symbol so did Apple just make it up no in fact it was created by the Ad Council the same folks who created Smokey the Bear and McGruff the Crime Dog created this simple to represent an anti-bullying campaign and the group asked Apple to include it with other emoji it means I am a witness a witness to bullying and the hope is that it will be used to empower people to send it to stand up to online bullies and support their friends to not listen to the hate those that don't have iOS 9 can also get icons to copy and paste as photos from a separate keyboard app called I am a witness and there's a pretty big change over at you the online giant unveiled a new service that costs $10 a month so you can watch videos without advertisements and with that fee you also can watch some videos that other people cannot popular YouTube stars are going to create videos only subscribers can see it's called YouTube red and it launches October 28th with a free one-month trial there are so many paid services these days Netflix Amazon Prime Spotify Apple music HBO now so YouTube will have to make those new perks pretty exciting for people to want to pay for YouTube which has been free for 10 years that's it for this tech news update and there's more cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey