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what's up Brian song here and welcome to Google issues for everything Google that we can pack inside of a show now we talked about how Google glass appears to be fading last week but Intel hopes to re-energize the platform with a new partnership now The Wall Street Journal reports Intel will equip the next version of glass in 2015 with the new low-energy processor designed to increase battery life and will replace the current one by Texas Instruments that lasts around a day Intel's making a bigger push into wearable technology and it currently produces the super fashionable mica bracelet that has little mainstream appeal intel is planning to promote glass to industry and businesses such as hospital networks or manufacturers where they believe it can have a stronger lasting impact and use case now google continues to push glass as a consumer device but it still faces the challenges of price privacy issues and let's be honest it still looks awkward in casual settings yes it's still an evolving platform but last week we asked some of you to chime in on your experiences with glass Scott Boswell says he loves his glass for daily lab work but it's ahead of its time John writes in that one of the big obstacles for glass is that Google isn't currently allowing devs to monetize their apps and they expect devs to put it on the platform for free not very cool and Kimberly and Graham who's an explorer says where do you get your information from I wear my glass every single day start to finish I'm telling you that you don't know what you're talking about or we live in different realities Kim don't get so defensive I actually get my information from this amazing resource called the internet and personal experiences so yes maybe we do live in different realities all right thanks to everyone for writing in let's check this out Google Chromebooks continue to make more strides in education according to IDC and for the first time ever Google has overtaken Apple in United States schools now in q3 of 2014 the goog shipped 750,000 Chromebooks to schools while Apple ships and mm the financial time reports that Google Chromebooks as a whole now account for a quarter of the education market thanks to their starting price at 199 fully functional keyboards no surprise and the ability to manage them more easily by IT peeps all right there's a new report from Sam mobile and don't get too surprised by this the next Galaxy S flagship phone will be called and a drumroll please the councii s6 and a galaxy s6 edge will also be coming as well all right it's part of their project zero initiative we talked about where they're starting from scratch to reinvigorate their galaxy line but changing the name won't be part of it and no longer will you have to be a part of the cool Club to get one of the 1+1 phones tatted by them as the smartphone killer and really one of the hottest Android phones to come out this year it's available for everyone you can check out the website that will have a special pricing on it for a few more days for a 16gb model at $2.99 and the final story that could be big but might not mean anything I know don't you love that forties TechCrunch discovered a newly published pen by Nintendo that shows the company is looking to bring some of its titles to mobile devices through emulation technology on products ranging from on seat displays in airplanes and trains and smartphones now I've been saying this forever how many people would buy Super Mario Brothers on a platform for like 5 to 7 bucks everyone would so we've seen plenty of Nintendo emulators in the past that end up getting shut down in Nintendo hasn't made any official announcements but it's the story of the week that let's be honest it got me a little giddy all right that's gonna do it for this week's show thanks so much for watching it we'll see you all next time for some more of that Google ishes dee-licious