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what's going on brian Tong here with your Google licious for everything google that we can pack inside of a show and if you didn't think Google search could get any smarter it just did and it will continue to do so now Google search can now answer a variety of more complex questions that can understand the semantics of each part of the question so you can ask you something like what was the Warriors roster in 2011 and you'll find a roster from the previous season and not the current one look how stack that team was with mba greats like charles Jenkins and dominic McGuire all right now Google can also list results in ascending or descending order so you can ask what are the largest cities in California by area boom and maybe you want to try a complex combination how about this what was the US population when ronda rousey was born see there you go she was born in 1987 and it got that too geez google you're really smart but just wait until their knowledge graph gets placed into the head of an independent thinking machine from the future I'll be back what all right google gets major props after the horrible and tragic events in Paris they are making phone calls to France free on Google Hangouts you can get hangouts on both the google play store or the Apple App Store and it's great to really see tech companies step up when they can so thank you google also swiftkey is still popular on the Play Store and their latest version 6.0 brings double word predictions so you can select two words together that swiftkey predicts are coming next you'll also get new languages supported and an improved emoji panel which is obviously very important alright Motorola partnered with Ashton Kutcher for a fun video series to promote the new Moto X phone they told unknowing victims that they were running an experiment that required them to keep their hands in two circles on a table then they started sending notifications to the person's phone to see how long it took for them to look at it see one person took all of six seconds and yes people are that sad alright Monument Valley was one of the great games from 2014 and the team has brought their expertise for a new VR game for the galaxy s6 called Lands End it's an adventure through landscapes to awake a lost civilization and anyone with a gear VR setup needs to get on this right now and for all you galaxy users still waiting patiently a leaked roadmap has revealed when you can expect to receive the Android marshmallow update with most of the current mobile devices getting the update as early as this year and through februari 2016 for others now they're part of phase one right now but some of the less popular models are coming in phase two which still doesn't have specific target months and what's old is new again and I could prove that to you last week a new samsung phone was certified by the chinese regulatory authority and the images of the device have been leaked out to reveal a samsung flip phone I'm being serious it takes design cues from the s6 of the note 5 on the top with that flip phone design it has two three point nine inch screens on both sides of the phone with a 16 megapixel rear camera a 5-megapixel front-facing and three gigs of ram see somewhere in a phone recycling facility overseas the motorola razr is smiling alright that's going to do for this week's show you can email us at Google Isha's at cnet com or tweet me at Brian Tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for some more of that Google issues Google ishes