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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to Google Isha's for all the Google that we can pack inside of a show each week let's get to the show in we start off with a little bit of moonshine moonshine what it's not that moonshine but according to Android police Google is working on new icons for its Android apps that more closely resemble the icons used for its web apps now internally the goom's is calling it moonshine and it's expected to bring a flatter icons with harsher shadows for apps like play music books and movies and core apps like mail YouTube and the Play Store and more that you can see here now these may not be the final icons yet but there's strong evidence that they are indeed real after three of them recently appeared on the Google partners page but it's an indication that androids new look will be getting even simpler and flatter than it already is and also for one day and one day only woohoo glass will be on sale for anyone in the US on Tuesday and sure it might be too late by the time you're watching this finishing up your taxes and realizing you might have a tax refund that covers the Google glass price tag of $1,500 plus tax but if you missed out don't worry you'll be just fine after a website patent bolt found that Google has filed a patent application for a micro camera component that will complement its recently announced smart contact lenses now Google's smart contacts are still in the prototype phase and will have the ability to monitor glucose levels in the tiers of diabetic users now this patent application would allow the user wearing the contacts to take pictures of something by simply looking at it and also notes that it could use multiple cameras and even help scan raw image data of oncoming obstacles let's say somewhere like a crosswalk and send an audio alert to the user if they are someone with impaired vision this just sounds crazy awesome it's only a patent application and it's not a real product just yet so really maybe you should just buy a Google glass with your refund and since we're on the topic of glass sports teams like the Golden State Warriors are bringing technology to fan experience so we got a chance to go to a game and hang out with Kevin Cote their senior director of digital and find out what the Warriors are doing with class and that my friends is the perfect segue alright guys now we're here at the mecca of technology here in the Silicon Valley you know what this is Google glass and the Warriors are jumping on this and you guys are developing your own of Google glass application correct correct yeah glass wearin and really it's an extension of our mobile app again being in the Bay Area we probably have more adopters of Google glass than most markets so we want to make sure we're ahead of the curve again and bring that experience to to this platform and the thing about this is this is not going to be just isolated at any section you want any fan that it comes to a game then is wearing a pair of these bad boys $1,500 right now to be able to jump into your app what type of information and things will they be able to see so it's actually built on the same Android platform as our Android mobile app so anything from play-by-play shot charts to game flow information about the players and then someday also live camera angles different different camera angles altering throughout the arena anything that really enhances that experience so that you don't even have to look down you can be watching the game but then they're actually looking up up into the right and seeing stats and anything that's going to make the game even more enjoyable we know in the ad D information all day every day age that's gonna be important you know I really think that reporter is very very good and more Google News The Wall Street Journal reports that the big G is considering giving higher search rankings to websites that use secure encryption if true it could force more websites to adopt a more secure set up making it harder for cyber criminals to spy on users even if they'll find another way to do it now it's just under consideration and I get the idea behind this but changing rankings for sites that are actually providing better data and more relevant data but then pushing them lower if they aren't secure enough come on Google don't be evil and in another Wall Street Journal report they say the goom's is purchasing Titan aerospace makers of high altitude solar-powered drone aircrafts that are intended to fly non-stop for years well they were really cool until that point because that doesn't sound scary at all now it's believed Google will use the drones to collect more aerial imagery for maps but even more intriguing is Google and Titan will work closely on Project loon now that's the plan to build large high-altitude balloons that can send Internet signals to areas of the world that are currently not online Titan may also work with another Google project called Makani to develop an airborne wind turbine that generates more energy at a lower cost than conventional wind systems see guys they really do everything and one quick note before we go HCC officially announced that they will push out a sense 6.0 update out to original HTC one owners by the end of May it's unclear which new features will actually make it from the m8 version to the previous m7 but it's good news either way all right that's gonna do for this week's show email us at Google issues at cnn.com or tweet me at brian tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next week for some more of that Google issues do this