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thanks to social media there's always a new way to annoy your acquaintances I'm Bridget Carey and this is just seen that update I know how much you all love being forced to watch as before playing a video well now you will experience that joy more often because YouTube is putting ads on videos watched on smartphones and tablets they will play for five seconds before you can skip it YouTube is hoping to make more money from mobile of course and Android users will start seeing this first that's because the current iphone YouTube app doesn't allow ads but that'll change in the next version the google plus social network has updated its sliders no no not those sliders although that would be cool rather this feature is a bar you slide to measure how many posts from a circle you want to see in your feed and now you can set it to the max to be alerted for every post or if there's one person or just is too chatty you can go to their profile to mute them also when you're making a post you can now check off a box to send an email blast to everyone in that circle yeah be wise how often you use that Microsoft has a new logo for the first time since 1987 along with the new font that has grey type is the four panel square color symbol and as for Windows and its other products wave goodbye to the wavy windows flags everything's more Square and straight edged across the board and as you heard on a previous update if you recently bought a PC you can upgrade to Windows 8 for 15 bucks instead of paying the full price well you can get that upgrade for free for any HP or compaq pc Bob between august seventeenth through February's second of next year HP is offering $15 refunds maybe others will also do the same another deal for gamers the price of the xbox kinect sensor just dropped forty dollars in time for the holidays it's now 110 dollars and you know how nasty a keyboard can be dust crumbs germs it can be frightening well Logitech just came out with the washable keyboard for 40 bucks no more dirty QWERTY if you feel like there's just never enough time in the day why not try living on Martian a day on Mars is three percent longer than a day on earth so you gained about 40 minutes more a day a NASA engineer had his whole family switched a Martian time when the Curiosity rover landed of course they'll have to switch back when school starts but you can keep Martian time yourself with Mars clock smartphone apps for Android and iPhone that your tech news roundup for today you could find more details about today's stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey