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what's going on Bryant on here with your Google licious for everything google that we can pack inside of a show smartwatches are still getting all the attention and Google's all over this with a big update to Android wear that brings wrist gestures to the platform now you can flick through cards hands-free on Android wear by flicking your wrist away but I would advise against doing this constantly in public now Google's platform also brings Wi-Fi support so your watch won't always need to be directly connected to your phone you can also respond to messages by drawing little emoji replies as long as you are decent and drawing with your finger which I am plus they've added always-on screen always on apps and your contacts will be more easily accessible now these updates are coming to all 7 android wear watches over the next few weeks starting with the LG watch urbane really the most stylish looking one of the bunch alright google recently announced the works with google cardboard program that lets you be aware of all the third-party viewers that are compatible with cardboard apps they're marked with a little orange badge so you know google is implementing a QR code system allowing apps to identify which cardboard viewer the user has and it will adjust the experience to fit now this is really cool and if you're looking to still get one the good people at dodocase are making their virtual reality cardboard toolkit free for a limited time all you have to do is pay for the cost of shipping and it works with android devices as well as the iphone 6 and 6 plus and in a what if story this week bloomberg business reports that Tesla was almost sold to Google in 2013 on the verge of bankruptcy and hustling to fulfill their pre-orders of the Tesla s to early adopters Tesla had to Elon Musk started negotiating a deal to sell his company to Google through his buddy Larry Page now the report also says while the deal was being worked out the company would have cost six billion dollars and they also needed to invest five billion more for factory expansions at that time musk wanted guarantees that Google wouldn't break up or shut down his company and the google-owned Tesla for eight years or until they pumped out their mainstream third gen car that would be priced for the masses now Paige even agreed to the overall proposal and shook on the deal but it never happened after sales picked up significantly within weeks after that and Tesla was able to pay off its 465 million dollar loan to the US Department of Energy but this is just a fun what could have been story alright in announcements around the android world live streaming app meerkat has announced that its opening up a public beta for its upcoming android app it's currently on iOS and alongside of periscope both of these apps have really jump-started live streaming from your phone you'll just need to fill out a google form that you can find from meerkat to get a chance to be one of the early beta testers it's also been about a month of non stop leaks for Sony's Xperia z4 and it's now officially out in Japan it looks almost exactly like the z3 like we thought and brings an aluminum bezel this time the biggest changes a 20.7 megapixel rear camera and an all new Snapdragon 810 processor running Android 5.0 lollipop also LG keeps giving us more with the g4 this time posting a picture on its google plus page with its tan leather style booty we'll find out all the official details on april 228 and if you want people to stop caring about your quote-unquote big announcements keep doing what the team at one plus did after teasing an announcement for the past few days that announcement well you don't need an invite to buy a one plus one phone anymore thanks guys I don't need an invite to buy any of the killer phones on the market right now alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i will get back to you thanks so much for watching we'll see you all next time for some more of that Google issues and you know what go dubs google Isha's