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it's Wednesday februari 23rd I'm Wilson tang and it's time to get loaded doodle for google is a contest where children can unleash their creativity and maybe win a little cash at the same time the Google yet again has found itself in some privacy trouble the initial parental consent form asks for the last four digits of a student social security number and their city of birth with that information it would be relatively easy to figure out a youngsters complete social security number a google spokesperson however says it uses the information to stop duplicate entries and to ensure that all applicants are legal US residents google assures that it is not storing social security numbers okay yesterday we reported that the ipad 2 could be delayed until june but now the word is that it could be as early as next week media invitations for big launches like these tend to go out on short notice once the cnet invites come in we'll let you know amazon announced that amazon prime customers can now stream more than 5000 movies and TV shows for free again this is only for amazon prime members that pay the annual $79 fee for amazon perks like free shipping and now free movies customers will be able to watch their free streams on macs window machines Roku boxes and other internet-connected devices china now has an official government search engine and it's called Pangu so it will compete with baidu for the number one search engine spot in the country remember how china and google headed out last year / filtered search results well i guess if you can't beat them join them the search engine will provide government approved search results so don't bother searching for Falun Dafa men has added a few new tools that will help its users get out of debt they're called the get out of debt tools and they'll help you set and manage a payment schedule for any money owed it takes into account your salary and current spending habits and it'll help you get a sense of when and how you can pay off any debt min says that this was one of the most requested features if you have any media uploaded to yahoo video you should download it now if you want to keep it the site yahoo video discontinued video uploads in december and now any videos that were uploaded before then will be pulled after march fourteenth yahoo enabled downloading under the I video tab so users can retrieve their content before that yahoo video isn't shutting down though it just won't allow any more user-generated content that's your news for today I'm Wilson tank for CNN com and you've just been loaded