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no spam in today's show we're scanning faces and looking for life on Mars I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update it's not often we get a shake up an email but say hello to Microsoft's new free email account outlook.com it'll eventually be replacing hotmail and you can go to outlook.com to grab your name now aside from a new clean look it adopted some windows 8 touches like people hub it also has a strong tie in with social media you don't have to leave the email to send a facebook message or tweet to friends and you'll find social media info pulled into your contacts it's not too far off from what you might be used to already in gmail but you can check out a preview of the features at cnet com it's an exciting time for science the Mars Science Laboratory Rover called curiosity will land on the Red Planet overnight on Sunday to search for the building blocks of life and if anything could live on Mars now this is the most expensive and complex Lander that's ever been sent to Mars its nuclear powered and can scale a 3 mile tall mountain some say this program could be the most important event in the history of planetary exploration in other news we're watching the Apple TV streaming box just added an app for Hulu Plus and there's a new tag for twitter using the dollar sign before a stock symbol will create a cache tag and when clicked it takes you to financial search results for that company if you've been using stocktwits then yeah you know all about the cache tag stock to it says Twitter stole the feature from them right after claiming it wasn't interested a few months ago part of the fun of playing sports video games today is seen your favorite players on the screen and they can look so realistic but ever wondered what it takes to make that happen I got a peek at ea's head scanning technology at Grand Central Station where the Tottenham Hotspur soccer team gathered to have their mugs added to the next fifa soccer 13 game players are surrounded by 18 cameras that snap every angle of their face for about two minutes it creates a base model then the images are sent back to the game development team and it takes about 12 hours or so to process each character players were told to make a neutral face because if they actually log photos of everyone's emotions it would just take too long so the computer will program some basic expressions for them he's been traveling the globe to chase down teams of every sport and FIFA was the first to incorporate this scanning technology it's about two minutes literally you go in and get your picture done and the top of your head and that's it so it's easy as that that's your tech news update for today for more on the stories mentioned in today's show you can head on over to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey