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yes as you've probably heard Google's self-driving car hit a bus but it was just kind of a little fender bender on Valentine's Day February 14th 2016 a self-driving lexus RX 450h um today navigate around some sandbags placed in a wide lane a bus traveling at 15 miles per hour approached the Google car from behind occupying the same wide lane as the smart car the Lexus then attempted to re-enter the center of the lane while moving at a speed of 2 miles per hour Google reported in a statement last week that the Smart car anticipated that the bus would slow down to allow the self-driving car to continue but the bus did not while the Smart car re-entered the center of the lane it struck the side of the bus causing minor damage to the front left fender front wheel and a sensor there were no injuries and no police report was filed now you may be thinking Jace it's a total non-story little fender bender why mention it well I mention it because some people we use this as proof that if self-driving cars can make little mistakes they can make big mistakes leading to loss of innocent life imagine the news flash in a few years where some wonderful innocent child is dead due to a car accident led by a self-driving car while tragically that is inevitable it's going to happen but the reality is it will happen a lot less with self-driving cars because computers make fewer computational errors than we do think about it are you a Sony Xperia fan like I am well you'll be happy to know that Sony has launched what it's calling an evolution of the Xperia brand the new reimagined brand hopes to be more than just a smart phone but a smart connected device capable of changing the way you interact with the world the first three phones and the new x-series are the xperia x the xperia x performance and the xperia x a the Xperia X will use the hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor and the xperia x performance will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 the Xperia X and the X performance will have 5-inch 1080p displays while the X a we'll use a five inch 720p display along with the mediatek mt6752 core cortex a53 processor the xperia x and xperia x performance includes sony's next-generation camera technology called predictive hybrid autofocus developed in collaboration with sony's camera engineers it lets you choose your subject and then predicts its motion so you can capture the action and perfect focus without any blur as well as camera tech sony says that the new x-series has next-generation battery technology with Sony's smart battery management which the company says will deliver up to two days of battery life when it comes to design each x-series smartphone has curved glass display within a rounded continuous frame while the xperia x a features an edge to edge display also the xperia x and xperia x performance and xperia x a each have a range of style covers and come in four colors white graphite black lime gold and rose gold and for those of you looking for news regarding the new version of Android coming up called Android n we got this in some new mock-ups from the folks at Android police we get our first glimpse at what changes it can expect when Android n rolls around as you can see the notification shade looks like it'll provide quite a bit more info per notification and the height of each notification has been stretched to accommodate this and lollipop notifications on the shade have a card like feel with gaps of negative space between each one n looks like it's filling up these gaps while both have a very sleek material design look Android n opts for a lengthly sheet of contiguous paper over the card layout we assume they will still be swipeable now anyone with real geek cred will tell you that the number one issue we hope manufacturers improve upon is battery life and Oppo has heard us at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Opel has unveiled a new solution to the battery problem called super vooc flash charge the technology is still in the early stages of development but it will ultimately allow smartphones to reach 100% battery charge in just 15 minutes the development will inevitably be limited to Oppo devices however there is a chance they could license it for broad usage from OMS around the world it will be available in both micro USB and USB type-c configurations thanks for watching guys you know the drill you can connect it in here and also my Android family right along here I shall see you next week on Android