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welcome to alphabet city this is the show that covers everything related to alphabet Inc alphabet just so happens to own lots of companies including Google I'm your guide Aya's Akhtar and you are the fantastic audience today we're talking about Google app updates a new Google smart home device for real this time and your comments but first things first let's talk about Google's issues with the US government to the garden of Google Google finally headed over to the Senate for a hearing by sending over its chief privacy officer Keith Enright in a prepared statement he said we acknowledge that we have made mistakes in the past from which we have learned and improved our robust privacy program and read confirmed that there is a project dragonfly he also said we are not close to launching a search product in China Reuters reports that Google CEO sundar Pichai will appear before the US House of Representatives he'll be discussing privacy issues and concerns that Google is biased against conservatives the hearing will occur in November but chai will also meet with the president remember that change to Chrome you know the one when you would log into a Google owned site you'd be logged into the browser as well yeah that didn't sit too well with people Google put up a post on his blog saying changes are coming beginning in chrome version 70 there will be a new option in settings it looks like this it says by turning this off you can sign into Google Sites like Gmail without signing into Chrome so that means that if you do not toggle this option guess what when you log into a Google site you will be logged into Chrome you got that the post reiterated at the very beginning that the change in chrome 69 was not all super evil quote we want to be clear that this change to sign-in does not mean chrome sync gets turned on meaning your data wasn't sent back to Google servers onward to uptown updates Google Maps has some new tricks first up group planning you can create a list of places by long-pressing each location in the Google Maps app this list is then shareable using any messaging app each member of the group can add or delete places they can also vote on a place secondly Maps is replacing the driving and transit tabs with a commute tab and third music playback can be controlled in Google Maps during turn-by-turn navigation Google revamped its Search app as well remember that newsfeed thing on the left it had a house as an icon well now it's getting a new name discover with an amazing asterisk logo there new where OS is rolling out to watches it's a lot more gesture based and it allows you to get to features quickly swiping up brings you notifications swipe into the left get you the redesigned google fit swiping to the right brings you assistant click on the side button brings up your apps alphabets Chronicle released new anti-malware software called virustotal Enterprise by the name you can guess it's meant for business use in a blog post the company explained that virustotal Enterprise can create private graphs that feature visualizations of malware relationships which is help in incident investigations Google announced project stream the company is working with Ubisoft to stream an assassin's Creed game to Chrome browsers on desktops and laptops Google also published a video showing off 1080p gaming using project stream if you're interested in trying it out there's a sign-up page at project stream google.com goggle says you'll need an internet connection of about 25 megabits per second let's talk about that smart home gadget finally Google's got a new device that's going through the FCC it's listed as the interactive video streaming device this most likely is Google's rumored home hub my smart price published images of what it says is the home hub the device is similar to the Lenovo smart display with a 7 inch screen when it comes to styling it looks googly white rounded kind of dull looking also just recently Best Buy sold a Reddit user what looks to be the new version of the Google chromecast take a look at the picture the new chromecast looks to have a matte finish with a Google G instead of the chrome logo so it looks like we might get a new chromecast at Google's October 9th event speaking of that let's head on over to pixel Park guys I can't feign excitement over these pixel 3xl leaks anymore there's yet another hands-on with what could be the three excel on YouTube in the video the pixel to excel is compared with the three excel take a look I'll wait okay my smart price also published a video it says this is the official Google pixel 3 excel marketing vid in it you see all kinds of ways to interact with the phone just just so many leaks and there's one more thing a Google teaser video this one's official it shows people touching other things and squeezing then ever tangle object is squeezed in the hand it's probably active edge we've call-up assistant by squeezing but I want to believe that the next pixel is transparent yeah let's go with that too comment Cove this is the part of the show will be shining a spotlight on the most amazing audience in the world you guys friend of the show Luke Taylor says YouTube music still has an incredibly long way to go before I consider switching from Google Play Music feature parity has to be completed before I'll trust the new system also if you want more Chrome OS news look at the latest info about Nocturne and Atlas that have been floating around this past week looking pretty good thanks Luke there's a report of a new Chrome OS tablet by Google it's reportedly codenamed Nocturne and may be officially called the Google pixel slate we might see it very soon Mac says that was a very brief mention of the new dark pattern slash behavior of chrome 69 login without consent also please report about the manipulation while deleting cookies ads of chrome 69 deleting cookies does not affect Google web services cookies as they always persist allowing continuous tracking thanks for the info max I'll have to do some research before I speak on the matter a little further Dominic says well what did you seriously not dive into Google collaborating with a totalitarian regime well Dominic we've covered dragonfly a number of times on this program so discussing it at length each time seems repetitive Thanks to everyone for writing in if you've enjoyed your stay in Alphabet City please like and subscribe I'm iuz Akhtar and I'll see you online hey you're still here let's cram in even more News YouTube VR is coming to the oculus go that's the $200 self-contained in VR headset vocalist over 800,000 VR videos will be available YouTube via already worked on google staging view headsets but when is YouTube we are coming to the go soon