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welcome to alphabet city this is the show that covers everything related to alphabet Inc the company that owns lots of other companies like way mo XV r Li and Google I'm your guide ayahs actor and you are the excellent audience today we're talking about some three movies on YouTube the buzz around the pixel your comments and more but first up let's talk about some phones let's check in at Android Avenue it's time for more details about the upcoming Galaxy S 10 Evan blast says Samsung will be using a punch whole style selfie cam cut out for the s10 potentially the Infinity o display I know what you're thinking it's a me infinity oh and no you can never unhear that again I'm sorry what Samsung introduced its flexible phone it did briefly show off several different variants of the Infinity display with notches and cutouts another was labeled new infinity which did not seem to have any cutouts at all other details from blass include three rear cameras as has been rumored for a while and ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and one UI over android pi in a previous episode we talked about a number of issues affecting the new pixels one of them was an audible speaker buzz as Nick Shaw eloquently stated on Twitter my speaker sounds like at low volume almost like a buzzing at the bottom one and the sound is different depending on how I touch the back glass on Twitter a user posted a conversation with what looks to be a Google rep in it the world famous Jenni said that a software update will be coming to address the audible buzzing prior to working at Google Jenni was working from the block Android police confirmed that the software update is coming Russian site rosette CAD published pics of what could be an unreleased Google phone it's rumored to be codenamed sargo and it could be a mid-range pixel sargo has a plastic back instead of a glass one and would include a headphone jack and be around the same size as the pixel three but use a mid-range processor the site had published accurate pixel 3xl images this year but then again who didn't let us know if you're interested in a budget pixel let's go to uptown update over on YouTube you can now watch a selection of movies for free but they are ad-supported apparently YouTube rolled us out very quietly last month some of the bigger titles include some Rocky movies with great power the Stanley's story The Terminator and everyone's absolute favorite Polish short movie about living in a biodome movie biodome as an aside did you know that biodome has a Metascore of 1 on Metacritic meta scores are out of 100 that means it essentially got a point for existing that's just amazing almost makes me want to watch it anyway if you've got youtube premium you can watch the films without add breaks as of this recording there are almost 100 films available a YouTube director says the catalog will grow in the future alphabet is getting rid of shaft a company that was working on bipedal robots alphabet was looking for a buyer for the company but could not make the deal happen if you're wondering what shaft was let's break it down who's the company that was working on machines to walk on two legs shaft dang right what was the company Google bought around the same time as Boston Dynamics shaft can you dig it who was it an alphabet spokesperson told Nikkei the following softbank's decision not to move forward with the shaft acquisition we explored many options but ultimately decided to wind down shaft alphabets artificial intelligence unit deep mind is getting absorbed by Google it will now be within a new section of the company called Google Health deep mind built an app that helped medical professionals spot kidney failure the app was called streams CNBC says Google health will include a products division with Health Hardware way most CEO John craft SiC says the company will launch its self-driving car service in the next two months the service will be available in the Phoenix area to a small group and will expand over time verily is holding off on its smart contact lens project the lens was to help monitor glucose levels in a blog post the company said the lenses had an issue they suffered from insufficient consistency in measurements of the correlation between two glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device Merrill it will work on other lens tech as well as other ways to track glucose let's go to comment code this is the part of the show where we shine a spotlight at the most amazing audience in the world you guys Dex Ville says why make the folder that's so small I'd like to see a 6.3 version unfold to 9 inches think big Samsung you know I think this is just early days I bet Samsung will gradually increase the size of the cover screen as time goes on Alex asks when is Google buying Twitter I'm gonna guess sometime between right now and 2021 Josh asks again can you buy me a pizza and Josh I ask you what kind thanks to everyone for writing in 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