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what's happening Brian Chong here with all your Google Alysha since everything Google that we can pack inside of a show now it's not the biggest news week this week but we start off with an update on Google's self-driving cars after its first accident that involved injuries now it was nothing serious other than some minor whiplash but a post by the director of the project Chris Urmson talks about how the cars are being hit surprisingly often but not because of errors by their own cars but because of human error by other drivers now since 2009 Google's self-driving cars have been involved in 14 accidents with a 25 car fleet that has driven over 1.9 million miles there's never really been a real number based on accidents per miles driven because over half of all car crashes are never even reported so they're really hoping their driverless car project can also give them some more accurate information all right Google continues to make move to do really anything and everything a recode report says the big G is hiring the technical team that built home joy a service that matches people with professional home cleaners now a report from earlier this year said Google was looking to launch a tool for people to compare local home repair services for plumbers electricians roofers and other handyman jobs so the brainpower behind home joy will most likely be building this out now we don't know if it will be a standalone service or integrated into search but one thing is certain coming soon you'll be seeing a lot more of this thanks Google all right according to Bloomberg the boobs is on track to launch their paid YouTube service by the end of this year content always drives these things and their top partners that account for 90% of its views are on board but the major TV networks are still holding out like Fox NBC and CBS according to YouTube's Terms YouTube stars can't make their videos public and monetize them unless they agree to be part of this service so for them it's a no brainer when the challenge is getting original content that's worth paying for Netflix has done it and it's now up to YouTube to figure that out alright some pretty sweet developments on the smartphone front Samsung Apple and other phone manufacturers are in talks with cell carriers to create a SIM card similar to the one that Apple's iPad that let's a user sign up for a service plan of their choice on a single model of hardware now this would make life easier for everyone instead of manufacturing different phone models that support each different cell carrier the idea would be an embedded Universal SIM card that's built into the phone and not user accessible you would be able to sign up for any service but also switch them at any time as well the goal is to start rolling this out sometime in 2016 Samsung is also announced in super-slim Galaxy Tab s2 measuring in at five point six millimeters that's half a millimeter thinner than the current iPad air the tab s2 will come in either nine point seven inch or 8 inch screen sizes with a twenty 84 by 1536 resolution Super AMOLED display that's newly optimized as they say for better contrast and natural colors it will also get Samsung's improved fingerprint scanner an eight megapixel rear camera three gigs of RAM expandable memory storage and LTE and Wi-Fi models now there's no release date or pricing that's been revealed just yet and if you're an experienced reown err that lives in Sweden and owns a Windows PC and also must be willing to completely wipe your phone of its personal setting data and content if this sounds like you you are in luck so that narrows it down to like five people sony is looking for people to test their new android concept software between mid july and september but will not reveal any specifics or even a hint at what it will look like now no other device will work and customers from other countries will not be able to join either but I think a word of advice would be to get as close to stock Android as possible alright that's gonna do it for this week's show you can always email us at Google issues at cnet.com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you all next time for some more of that delicious Google ishes