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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 some new phones a new Google smart home device and your comments but first things first let's talk about dragonfly to the garden of Google the intercept published another report about Google censored search engine built for China codenamed dragonfly this time the intercept wrote about a memo that's circulated within Google written by an engineer the memo said that users would have to log in to dragonfly in order to use search information would then be shared with a Chinese partner that partner would have quote unilateral access to the data searches would be connected to the person's phone number both Android and iOS apps were being developed the memo said that movements of Chinese users would be stored additionally data would be sent to a database in Taiwan but wait there's more the Chinese partner could add terms to blacklist front search and quote selectively edit search result pages unilaterally and with few controls seemingly in place end quote there were internal protests at Google about dragonfly according to intercept sources higher-ups at Google found out about the memo and were pretty ticked off since details of dragonfly were not supposed to be shared employees were told to delete copies of the memo immediately sounds pretty rough let's head on over to uptown updates several reports say that Google made a strange change in its browser beginning with chrome version 69 when a user would log into a Google site Chrome would then sign in that user to Chrome's in browser account system called sync guess what people are upset Google engineers published a few tweets explaining that the auto log-in does not sync data to Google servers to do that the user would have to manually turn sync on seems kind of fishy though right Samsung just introduced the Galaxy a7 and it's got three rear cameras one camera is a 25 megapixel shooter another is a five megapixel one used to control depth of field then there's a 24 megapixel lens wondering where that fingerprint sensor is Samsung put it on the side the a7 comes to Europe and Asia in the fall the pixel 3 may have been listed on a Chinese site JD comm and it looks like it could cost around seven hundred and twenty nine dollars also the pixel 3xl may have leaked again on Twitter look at the pics oh wait okay YouTube music got an update you can now choose from three audio quality levels the bitrate to top out at 256 kilobits per second Google held an AMA and explains quote right now we don't have any plans for audio quality higher than 256 kilobits per second our deals would require us to charge more to stream FLAC so at this point we are focused on improving performance rather than supporting lossless streaming end quote geek wire says that nest will be working on digital health products last year it was reported that Google purchased a health startup called cenotes back in August of 2017 geek wire says it was actually nest that bought the start-up at the time of the acquisition nest was one of the companies owned by alphabet nest is no longer an independent company and is now owned by Google which is still owned by off of it on to comment Cove this is the part of the show will be shine a spotlight at the most amazing audience in the world you guys hockey duck 3 says news new phones may ship with 4 or even 5 cameras in them NSA heavy breathing Mahesh commented on the report that Google may be working on 7 phones 7 phones can we just get the headphone jack Falcon has an idea of what Samsung is working on for its October event it could also mean 4x optical zoom on the new devices camera just saying it's a pretty cool idea Scott wants to know when we'll have updates on Chrome OS news well I'll let you know when I know thanks to everyone for writing in if you've enjoyed your stay in Alphabet City please like and subscribe also Android just turned 10 years old on my ass at tarp and I'll see you online hey we're at the end of the episode let's say hello to Jessie Bob the potato and Shivan reinder sorry if I pronounced your name wrong also Josh I'm not sure if I get you a pizza