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welcome to alphabet city this is the show that normally covers everything related to alphabet Inc the company that owns lots of other companies this episode is going to be a little bit more google centric than usual I'm your guide Aya's Akhtar and you are the audience full of mirth today we're talking about sundar pichai and Congress on new assistant trick and your comments but first it's galaxy gateway let's talk about the galaxy fold a blog called let's go digital found a very detailed report by an analyst group named CCS CIMB research the report looked at the phone market in general but had some very interesting details about the foldable samsung phone the group estimates that the foldable phone will cost six hundred and thirty six dollars and seventy cents to build at retail the galaxy f is expected to cost $1,800 to give samsung a 65 percent profit margin the firm says samsung will pack in two batteries for a total of five thousand to six thousand milliamp hours other notes from the reports say that foldable phones will make up more than 9% of global smartphone sales by 2022 time for some more Galaxy S 10 stuff gives moto UK published a report with all kinds of details about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S 10 first up the S 10 would launch at a Samsung event before Mobile World Congress the phone would be released on March 8th the report also says there will be three models of the S 10 the regular S 10 the S 10 plus and a flat version for screen sizes the flat version also known as the S 10 light would have a 5.8 inch screen the regular S 10 would have a 6.1 inch screen and the plus would go with a 6.4 inch one the S 10 would support reverse wireless charging meaning the phone could charge other devices like headphones wirelessly what about storage the flat would get 128 gigs the Plus will top out with a terabyte of storage Gizmodo says the price of that terabyte monster would be around seventeen hundred US dollars as for the 5g model Gizmodo UK sources say it will be in late q2 at the earliest let's go to uptown update sundar pichai took on the US House Judiciary Committee for several hours of questioning we've got a full highlight package up on our YouTube channel long story short which I said the company does not have any political bias he also said Google does not have any current plans to launch a product in China but I also said that the company had looked into the concept internally with a team of over 100 people otherwise we also learned that technology is still a very difficult concept for certain lawmakers to handle it's not a trick question you know you make a hundred million dollars a year you ought to be able to answer that question does Google know through this phone that I am moving over there and sit next to mr. Johnson which would make him real nervous Google announced that assistant is getting even smarter this time assisting will proactively tell you if your flight is predicted to be delayed you will also see why the flight would be delayed Google says it uses historic flight status data combined with machine learning to make predictions about flight delays let's go to comment code this is the part of the show where we shine a spotlight at the most amazing audience the world you guys Angelou asks what happened to Project loon that's a good question we haven't covered a major development out of loon for a long time last I checked loon signed a deal with telecom Kenya to provide Internet services by balloon the service should go live in 2019 now loon spun out of alphabets X company back in July X is alphabet research and development unit Apple goo-goo says I will really miss Google Plus it was really versatile and handy and useful for everyday toggling between my work life and personal life and of course I'm kidding I found it annoying because it kept trying to conflate the need that makes music videos with the me that does everything else never signed up for it never used it and still it managed to negatively impact me well stated Thanks to everyone for writing in if you've enjoyed your stay in Alphabet City please like and subscribe i'm is act iron i'll see you online blue introduced a new $80 phone running Android 9pi go edition that's the version of Android bells for lower and hard work 80 bucks gets you 16 gigs of storage one gig of ram 2 8 megapixel cameras on the back one 5 megapixel front-facing camera oh else also it's called the blue Revo go