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it's Wednesday February 22nd 2012 I'm Roger carry on cnet com and it's time to get loaded you could be wearing computer vision glasses by the end of the year reports the New York Times high-tech glasses being made by google which have been speculated about four weeks would display a transparent computer screen on the lenses it sounds like something out of science fiction but new reports say it can go on sale this year for somewhere between 250 and six hundred dollars the prototype looks similar to oakley stump glasses and could tap into Google's database to overlay map directions or information on nearby points of interest it's what's often referred to as augmented reality facebook is upgrading its advertising offerings next week a leaked document shows new ads will target the friends of an advertiser's fans and it would let anything post it on a page like a status message event or photo to be turned into an advertisement pay a little more and that post can be targeted to anyone on Facebook the new ads will also be larger which supposedly will boost engagement by forty percent twitter has brought back features it recently removed in its smartphone apps likely because they were in high demand from fans the app update for iphone and android users brings back the swipe shortcut and a find friends feature the iphone version also has brought back the copy and paste function as well as more sharing options the hacker activist group Anonymous is growing more powerful and may one day attack our power grid according to the director of the National Security Agency The Wall Street Journal reports the director has been urging for the u.s. to keep a close eye on anonymous over the next couple of years the group has been known to hack information from individuals and organizations all with the goal of embarrassing them or revealing what it believes are in justices earlier this month the group took credit for taking down the CIA's website you likely know of the company epson for its printers but now the company has gotten into the personal fitness industry it's created the latest GPS watch for runners the GPS monitor can track or runners distance pace and speed and it also can be worn while swimming we'll be the first to get the watch later this year scientists have found a new way to look at a whole cell without the mess of slicing it up and staining it in a lab using soft x-ray tomography researchers can take a photo of a cell every 100 milliseconds once they have about a hundred or 200 snapshots the computer can build a 3d color-coded model on the computer and it only takes five minutes those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet com and you just been loaded