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it's Wednesday August seventeenth 2011 I'm Wilson tag on Cena calm and it's time to get loaded sony has dropped the price of its PlayStation 3 models by fifty dollars that means the 160 gigabyte and 320 gigabyte versions of the console will now just cost $249 and 299 dollars respectively the ps3 joins the Nintendo 3ds which dropped its price by thirty two percent we think that's a pretty good deal for a game console and blu-ray player speaking of gaming consoles Nintendo as a nuts it's popular Wii console will be getting a slight redesign at least in the UK just in time for the holiday season the console doesn't look dramatically different although it's now designed to lay flat rather than stand vertically like the original Wii does the redesign however it does bring a major feature loss the console no longer plays gamecube games becomes packed with a wii remote plus a nunchuck and copies of wii sports and wii party no word yet on non-uk availability google has released a new service that shows users related links based on the same topics as the page they're currently viewing it's called google related and comes in the form of an extension for its Chrome browser once installed users will see a bar appear along the bottom of certain page types like news shopping or even a restaurant site verizon communication plans to suspend health insurance coverage and medical benefits for any workers who are still on strike this is the latest escalation in the contract dispute between the company and union workers who walked off the job in August seventh striking workers will have the option of continuing their health coverage as long as 18 months if they continue to make premium payments themselves using Cobra Netflix is trying to give parents some help finding child appropriate content on its video streaming service it's called just for kids and as you would expect in steered toward children 12 and under some titles include Sesame Street and Toy Story 3 the service has launched in the US and Canada for users on Windows and Mac computers would support on other Netflix compatible devices coming in the near future Mozilla has released version six of its Firefox browser this is the second I mozillas new rapid release schedule unlike previous whole number upgrades to Firefox there are fewer features and many under the hood improvements some features include highlighting the domain of the site you're visiting support for web sockets faster startup times and overall a more secure and stable browser those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tang for CNN com and you've just been loaded