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it's Thursday October twentieth two thousand eleven I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded we start today's show with a security warning to iPhone 4s users there's a default setting you might want to change the voice assistant Siri will send a message or open a calendar without requiring a password to unlock the phone on one hand it can be time-saving if you need to send a quick message but it also means anyone could just walk up to your phone and ask to see what's on your calendar start sending emails or text messages that's not too secure you can turn this off by going into settings under password lock and turning off the option for Siri to be accessed without a password brand pages are coming very soon to the google plus social network it's not going to be within a week but it will be launched quote imminently according to google's vice president of engineering at the web two point O tech conference in San Francisco there's been an overwhelming interest in getting business accounts on Google Plus also in the works users eventually won't have to use the real names check out this new robot being developed at the University of California inspired by the indestructible cockroach researchers created dash plus wings a nimble robot that scampers about at about three miles an hour and can climb in clients of 17 degrees the idea is that down the line this fella can help get around and hard to access places after a disaster like searching through rubble after an earthquake all windows phone 7 users should be getting that mango update by now microsoft announced in a blog post that the mango operating system update had a slow initial rollout but 7.5 is now available for practically every user worldwide when available users will get a phone notification and can update by connecting to a computer don't tell MC Hammer he can't touch search because he just did with a new startup called wired do hammer had time on stage at the web two point O tech conference to talk about the search engine that he says focuses on relationships between words instead of the literal phrase so for example you type in 90210 you won't get the show you'll get info about schools and local crime stats in real estate it's in private beta test now so time tell if it's legit door if he should quit those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded