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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to Google ishes it's everything google that we could pack inside a show each week so let's get to it and the big news that broke out recently came in the form of a Samsung invitation to the press for an event that are calling unpacked 5 at mobile world congress in barcelona on februari the 24th now looking really closely for clues on the invitation i think that the announcement might be a reveal for a new cardboard box from samsung with the number 5 it's also called episode 1 and could feature a young Anakin Skywalker and Jar Jar Binks screen or this could be the reveal for the galaxy 5 now diagrams based on Samsung's filings for a super curvy smartphone have been outed but I've ohm Eric took those designs one step further and developed his own concept render of what the galaxy s5 might look like now it's still expected to come in two versions but some rumors claim Samsung could ditch their Super AMOLED display for an LCD this time around prototype benchmark results have already leaked online showing how it just slightly outperforms other phones on the market the leaks also show a 16 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixels on the front a 1080p display and a Snapdragon 800 chipset with a 2.5 gigahertz CPU but the source says it was just an engineering sample that was tested now our live coverage for Samsung's event will be right here on cnet that's a Monday februari the 24th at 1030am pacific time and the kino starts at eleven so join us and we can all find out everything together all right chrome boxes are making some noise starting with Google's shaking things up with their own video conference package called a chromebox for meetings that includes an Asus core i7 chromebox a high def camera microphone and speaker unit and a remote for nine hundred and ninety nine dollars google says it will allow businesses to outfit 10 or more rooms with videoconferencing now for the price of one and sticking with that asus box they'll also be selling it as a standalone chromebox with an entry-level price of only $179 that's touted as the smallest and most powerful chromebox a date when it goes on sale some I'm in March now it has all of your standard port connections and a modest 16 gigs of solid-state drive storage with 100 gigs of google drive storage thrown in the pricing for the higher-end versions with Haswell processors has not been revealed yet now HP is also announcing their own colorful assortment of Haswell core i7 chrome boxes that will come in silver white turquoise and black this spring the difference between the HP and a sous chromebox right now well HP didn't feel like giving us a starting price point and in a ventureBeat report the New York Police Department is testing out google glass with officers on patrol they signed up for a few pairs of glass and they're trying them out to see if they have any real value in investigations but more specifically for patrol operations in New York City I would just advise you not to call any of them glass holes if you see them on the street because yeah that would not be good and one of the quirkier stories that we just can't ignore flappy bird the game that set the world on fire is no more now it was a game for android and iOS with a simple but maddening mechanic and critics were bashing it now the game developer domed when was making about fifty thousand dollars a day but recently removed the app stain on his Twitter account that he cannot take this anymore and it ruined his simple life so now he hates it you know I admire him for staying true to himself people swarm to download the game before he pulled it and thanks to them he's now making even more money from it so dumb the win we salute you even if we still hate your game all right let's get to the winners of our speck case giveaway contest for the galaxy s4 and HTC one from last week and the picture I used in that episode was the one with the cute little dog and kitten also cute and cuddly and it warms my heart alright guys congrats go to our winners on Twitter Marvin Figueroa bill herndon and that's a fact jack and our email winners are Omar Elliot Whitney sit and boots on so congrats and we'll be in touch alright guys that's going to do it for this week's show email us at Google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i'll get back to you when I can thanks so much for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for some more of that Google ish give licious