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what's happened in Bryant on here and welcome to Google issues for everything Google you can think of there's plenty of pixel to stuff that we'll talk about shortly but with the natural disasters happening around the world we wanted to showcase what Google is doing right now now the US Federal Communications Commission recently approved a request for Google's Project loon to provide their airborne balloon cell towers that could help restore some of the cell service in Puerto Rico now there are obviously other critical needs like food water and electricity but communications is important moving forward where eighty four point six percent of cell sites were still not functioning according to the FCC now the goal of Project loon has always been to extend internet connectivity to remote areas and this is really an amazing way to use it for the people puerto rico all right after Google's keynote there's been a lot of buzz around the Google pixel to single-lens camera and it's rating as the best camera ever by DxO mark so to back up the hype the Google team posted a gallery over the weekend of almost 40 completely unedited photos from the pixel - and the results look pretty amazing like these pics are backing up that rating you can see how great some of these portrait mode photos look but the way it handles lighting and the fact that these are unedited like how can you not get juiced up about this on a phone and we still have to see how the iPhone tends camera stacks up now they also showed an example of the optimal image stabilization with this guy just running down a sand dune the video on the right is the stabilized one obviously now there's so much detail and clarity here and I would say just see this for yourself at this link we're showing on screen it's just really impressive alright some new features like a do not disturb mode weren't showcased at the keynote with the new pixel 2 & 2 XL will have the option to turn that on when it detects that you're in a car we've also seen it in iOS 11 where notifications and phone calls will be muted so it's a welcome addition also pixel 2 and 2 excels are already seen a big pre-order response with shipping days for the pixel to being pushed out for 6 to 7 weeks depending on the colors or just completely out of stock and adding your name to a wait list for the kind of blue version or the Panda version of the 2 XL and you know how I feel about the Panda Panda but if you live in New York or Los Angeles you might be in luck where there will be a made by Google pop-up shops on Fifth Ave in the NYC and on Melrose Avenue in Southern California starting October the 19th now there's no word if any or all of the products will be on sale or just for display also if you're getting a new pixel two phone one of the early benefits is getting a free Google home Mini to go along with it and it could come in pretty handy for you now you can now ask Google home to ring my phone or ask where's my phone and your phone will notify you of its location it even uses homes voice match feature to send it to the correct phone of the correct person this feature is live right now for the Google home today if you have an iPhone it just rings it as a normal phone call so you won't hear anything if your phone is on do not disturb mode but it still works and finally Google's way Moe is launching a self-driving awareness ad campaign titled let's talk self-driving that will be rolling out to Arizona first now waynebow is rumored to be launching the first commercial ride-sharing service powered by way most self-driving cars with no human safety drivers on board sometime this fall with Phoenix being its testing ground it partners with Mothers Against Drunk Driving the foundation for blind children and the National Safety Council with a very positive messages but you know what I think they need to speak to the millennial generation a little more so I came up with a few ads on my own like how about this one for the young professional I get Wei mo done on the road you like that okay well what about this one when you want to slide into her DMS after the club or whammo and chill see I'd actually use the service with an ad campaign like that all right that's gonna do it for this week you can email me at Google is just at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tong thanks much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that google issues