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what's going on Brian Tong here with your Google Isha's for everything Google we can pack inside a show and the headliner this week Google Maps goes offline this is a legitimate reason to get excited about maps because you'll no longer need a reliable internet connection if you want to use navigation now once you enter in your destination it will download the area data that also includes business information for lookup even without an active connection this version of Google Maps starts rolling out today but iOS users will have to wait until later with no exact date announced and Google for your next trick please bring offline viewing of YouTube videos to the US already thanks in advance now Google is also opening up after the company has decided to open-source their machine learning system called tensorflow to the public what's so special about this tensorflow powers speech recognition in the Google app which is the best in the business visual search in google's photos and smart reply in your inbox now anyone around the world can use these tools for its own research and development and the report from the information says Google wants to design its own smartphone ships to help it compete directly with Apple Google hopes to create a more uniform offering of Android phones by being actively involved in the chip design process with companies like Qualcomm it's really a similar approach to how Apple designs its own chips for the iphone and ipad with samsung and tsmc now the hope is that working directly with the manufacturers will enable them to roll out Android features that require more complex hardware and software relationship in the future and the google has also just acquired fly labs and plans to fold them into the photos team fly labs calls themselves creators of the world's best video apps and has a video suite of applications that's only available on iOS right now they bring some interesting features like changing the speed of a clip multiple times within that clip or their fly up lets you use gestures to edit videos alright new reports from users online are claiming that the rear glass panel on the Nexus 6p is spontaneously cracking it's not widespread yet but several people have posted their stories with pictures and it could become a bigger issue that we'll follow now I just got my 6p and I'm enjoying the pure Android experience like a whole lot but this week there's really only one product to talk about and that's the official announcement of the Tag Heuer connected SmartWatch it looks like a tag it costs $1500 with the sapphire glass a titanium body and one gig of ram it's the prices Android wear device out there but I'd already call it the best build Android wear device to date there are multiple interactive watch faces that you can change up with themes from timekeeping to weather to fitness but at the end of two years when the watch pretty much becomes outdated you'll have the ability to pay an extra $1,500 to get a similar Carrera watch so that's three thousand dollars for a watch that normally retails around five thousand what a business model for the connected trade your old SmartWatch in for a real watch so what's new is old is new but really it's timeless all right that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email us at Google issues at cnn.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you all next time for some more of that Google Isha's Google ishes