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hey I'm Korean levy and welcome to rumor has it the show that rounds up the week's biggest tech rumors you can vote on what you think about the rumors too in the interactive player if you're watching on cnet this week blackberry is still trying to find a home for itself and there's something fishy floating in the San Francisco Bay let's get started first up blackberry time in order to get itself out of a jam after years in the red blackberry officially put itself up for sale last month so rumors are swirling as to who could buy up the smartphone maker the latest rumor comes from a report in the Wall Street Journal which says that blackberry sat down last week with facebook to solicit a buyout bid if Facebook were to go for it it likely would be because of blackberry messenger as opposed to going into the phone making business mobile messaging is super important to facebook earlier this week it upgraded the messenger app and blackberry recently released a version of BBM for iOS and Android to give its messaging app which was once the gold standard in mobile messaging more universal appeal so who knows what Zuckerberg has up his sleeve and who knows if the seal will ever come to fruition at all do you think it will let me know in the comments moving on there's something weird going on in the San Francisco Bay cnet had an exclusive report last week that a company very likely google has set up shop on Treasure Island which is between San Francisco and Oakland and has been building a large structure made from cargo containers on a barge some evidence suggests that it might be a floating data center including the fact that Google itself has a patent for such a concept so that's fine and kind of boring but then a new report from the Bay Area CBS affiliate new station suggests that the floating barge is actually a google glass door and that the plan might be to tow it into San Francisco's fort mason for some indeterminate time um what the barge even has its own Twitter feed with a description that says you might think you know what I am but you're wrong and there's a second barge that's been spotted in Portland Maine and both the main ball charge and the San Francisco barge are owned by the same company so spooky an anonymous tipster called Cena to let us know that he had heard from multiple sources at Google that the company plans to float the glass stores from city to city by rivers and that the idea for the project came straight from either larry page or Sergey Brin Google's founders double what floating Google glass doors be sure to take your Dramamine when you head out to buy your google glass so you don't barf all over the displays but in all seriousness or as serious as you can get when talking about a top secret barge I really doubt it's a google glass door for one thing it looks like a giant floating box not a place where consumers would want to try on nerdy glasses and another thing there aren't any windows I'm placing my money on it being a data center but what do you guys think what could possibly be floating in the bay would you visit a google glass store that floats don't forget to vote in our poll and leave a comment that's our show everybody please share your rumors at rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 cnet and tweet us and tune in next week for more tech rumors