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Google takes the wheel Microsoft listens to you move and resume gate fires up I'm Bridget Carey and this is Racine it update Yahoo's resume gate has claimed its first victim but it's not the CEO yahoo board member patty heart will not seek reelection two Yahoo's board according to all things D she's tied up in the drama because she was in charge of the search to hire the CEO the scandal which has been developing for nearly a week now surrounds CEO Scott Thompson and how he claimed to have a computer science degree for several years but he did not and his education wasn't properly vetted when he was hired Thompson is not publicly admitted that he lied about his college degree but he did send an email to employees apologizing about how the investigation has been disruptive to the company a jury has cited with Oracle and determined that Google infringed on Oracle's Java language when it made the Android operating system but the jury couldn't decide if Google is protected under the fair use doctrine now because the jury couldn't come to a full decision Google's lawyers are asking for a mistrial and legal experts say Google might not have to pay a big feed Oracle this is only the first half of Oracle's two-part trial against Google in other news we're watching ATT said it will offer a family data plan this year although executives have not shared any other details verizon is also planning to launch a family data plan you've seen how Microsoft's Kinect uses cameras to detect motion but now Microsoft has come up with a way to use speakers it's called sound wave and it uses a laptop speaker and microphone to sense your gestures the speaker's admit in an audible tone and when your hand interrupts the sound it can tell you're moving because the frequency changes but it's still in the testing phase Nevada is the first state allowing Google's self-driving cars on the roads but when Google test these cars they're still required to have someone behind the wheel and one person in the passenger seat Boost Mobile is getting its first 4g phone at the end of this month Boost Mobile will sell the HTC evo design 4g which runs on sprint's wimax network and today we're watching the possible downfall of facebook social reader applications these are those apps used by news sites like The Washington Post or the Guardian before you can click to read a story it prompts you to add the app and the app will automatically post the stories you read on your Facebook page but based on information collected by app datacom it seems like people are not comfortable with these apps the number of users have rapidly declined that your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey