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hey I'm Kareem levy and welcome to rumor has it the show that rounds up the week's biggest tech rumors and don't forget that you can vote on what you think about the rumors too in the interactive player if you're watching on cnet now if you're sick of hearing about apple rumors you're in luck I've got a couple for you today and neither has anything to do with the company that you love to hate or love to love so first up here's a rumor that's still kind of in the rumor phase Facebook is testing out chat rooms according to TechCrunch who cited a person familiar with the matter Facebook confirmed that it actually is testing this out but the company's chatty lips were sealed about any other details the new feature which is codenamed host chat lets people set up chat rooms that their friends can join without an invitation kind of reminiscent of the old AOL chat room it would work by allowing you to set up a chat room which would then be broadcast on your newsfeed there may even be an option to let friends in there invite other friends and in one fell swoop it'll be like the 90s all over again not needing an invitation is the key differentiator between this service and say Google Hangouts but whether we want to return to the days of age sex location is a good question up next the war rages on between Apple and Google this week the wall street journal reported that google is working on an android based gaming console and a SmartWatch soon after everyone in the universe rushed to point out that this was probably in response to iOS 7 introducing third-party gaming controller standards and looming i watch that everybody is obsessed with speculating about the report also mentioned that Google would be updating the Nexus Q media streamer but since that product totally bombed and was super expensive it seems like there's no place for the Nexus Q to go but up also nobody cares about the Nexus Q as for the gaming console no specs were given in the report but you can imagine that Google is eyeing the android-based oya game console that's now currently selling for ninety-nine dollars now look I'm as addicted to candy crush as the next person but come on is yet another game console and an already oversaturated market something that we really need what do you guys think is Google trying too hard to enter a flooded market what would you want to see in a gaming console don't forget to vote and leave a comment and ask the cnet council whether it thinks that Google is working on a game console of its own the scene that council is composed of five editors who cast their votes anonymously their opinions are not an endorsement by cnet or CBS Interactive obviously because these are rumors folks and the cnet councils verdict is no they don't think that Google is building a game console one editor though who thinks that they are working on a console said that he thinks that since it's one of the areas in which Google doesn't have a presence he can't imagine them letting it stay that way for much longer 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 have a happy fourth of july and tune in next week for more tech rumors