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see if you can answer this Android related question in 10 seconds before Andy Rubin the co-founder of Android sold to Google who did he try to sell to first and the answer is Samsung and if you can answer trivia questions like that in 10 seconds without using Google search you might be able to win some cash I'm talking about the biggest viral sensation to hit Apple's App Store this year stay with me though because there are some promised Android goodies at the end I'm talking about the app HQ it's a live trivia quiz show for your phone where contestants compete for real cash prizes much like a regular TV quiz show the game is held at specific times and usually hosted by Scott Rogowski affectionately dubbed quiz daddy by his fans get a question wrong and you have to wait for the next game and you can't use Google search either because the question only shows up for 10 seconds it's like jeopardy and twitch had a baby that's sort of HQ in a nutshell now we were supposed to get HQ trivia for Android this Christmas but there was some sort of hiccup in the launch but we do have the next best thing to offer a link to pre-register so you can be the first in line when HQ trivia for Android actually launches hit the link in the description below and it will take you to the Play Store last week was big news for alphabet the parent company of Google and possibly very meaningful Google's parent company alphabet announced a major shake-up for its executive ranks this week Eric Schmidt the former CEO of Google will step down from his role as executive chairman on alpha-bits Board of Directors which he has held since 2011 the change will officially take place during the company's next board meeting in January 2018 now I thought long and hard before reporting on this but I thought this part does really need to be said Eric Schmidt has been slowly pulling back from responsibilities at alphabet in Google over several years on the surface it looks like just business as usual someone on Twitter who I won't say had perpetuated a rumor that perhaps Eric Schmidt is stepping down as a pre-emptive to dampen the blow of a possible sexual harassment allegation this person provided no evidence nothing verifiable nothing just fueling the gossip and in today's environment to me that is exceedingly dangerous we have no reason to believe that Eric Schmidt is stepping down for anything other than the reasons he stated in the press release nothing right but this person has a lot of influence and the rumor had just been stirring in the background if you guys follow me on Twitter I challenge that person and went back and forth and said maybe there were healthier ways to go around spreading rumors instead of risking destroying someone's life we are innocent until proven guilty and you know as a free society we try and allow due process to do its job to increase the chance that there can be justice for all people I wanted to say that because man the world is getting crazy now you guys remember magic leap magic leap was a secretive startup that received billions of dollars backed by Google and was working in the exciting arena of augmented and virtual reality over the past four years there has been fever pitched excitement about the new tech coming from magic leap unfortunately they produced bubkis nothing except for some videos they didn't produce anything tangible for us to see until now last week they revealed the magic leap one set which includes a pair of light wear goggles a portable light pack computer and a motion controller that looks a lot like daydream views remote crossed with an HTC vive wand starting with the light wear goggles itself according to a legal report the futuristic looking eyewear will come in two sizes while the unit itself has been engineered to be lightweight and comfortable as well as several adjustable components around the forehead nose and temple magic leap is apparently going as far as taking into account prescription details so it can adapt the lenses for users who wear glasses light wear is tethered to two cables to the light pack a circular pad that houses magic leaps spatial computing platform and provides the high powered processing and graphics needed to effectively blend digital objects in the real world the secret behind magic leap one however appears to lie in the firm's digital light field technology magic leap explains how this works in detail on its website our light field photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light to produce lifelike digital objects that coexists in the real world this advanced technology allows our brain to naturally process digital objects the same way we do real-world objects making it comfortable to use for long periods of time does that make you hopeful for me at best I am cautiously optimistic bang-bang