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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to Google ishes for all the Google goodness that we can pack inside of a show each week on this show Google goes acquisition wild and Samsung likes your eyes now let's get to it in Google is keeping itself very busy first with recent reports from variety and the Wall Street Journal that YouTube is in early talks to acquire twitch the live video game streaming service for 1 billion dollars now twitch is the most popular destination for watching and broadcasting video games I use it all the time to watch fighting game competitions and it's attractive for its 45 million monthly unique visitors that are engaged spending hours and hours watching tournaments YouTube has its own live streaming service but it lags significantly behind twitch it's an area that really youtube doesn't have a major focus on and it's fast growth including the inclusion of the app on the sony ps4 and xbox one make it an attractive by so we'll keep you posted if and when the deal goes through now Google is also picking up companies left and right and they recently purchased the company divided a start-up focusing on enterprise for Android and it keeps corporate information separate from personal information on a device that businesses don't own Android has trailed Apple when it comes to acceptance in the workplace across different Android devices so this acquisition will help develop and focus their efforts in house and the boobs also acquired a quest visual who's responsible for the world lens app and will be joining google's translate team the app is available on both android and iOS and has the unique ability to translate text in real life scenarios using the smartphone camera and displaying the text translated for you now it's really cool stuff that's right up Google's alley also let's check out some Samsung news The Wall Street Journal reports that the Korean giants senior vice president confirmed that biometric sensors for security features like the recent fingerprint scanner in the s5 will also be coming to sammys less expensive devices he also hinted that iris detection features could be the next sensor technology that is in and for their high-end devices but for everyone that's used it they really need to get that fingerprint scanner down and working properly before they start talking eyeballs and since we're talking Samsung devices of what could be looming in the rumor mills well photos of the Samsung Galaxy s5 Prime with a 5.2 inch qhd screen and a quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor leaked onto phone arena here and it's also still keeping its booty dimples and video footage of an alleged pre-production model of the rumored s5 Prime with an all metal backing show off the phone here as well but it still feels too soon for samsung to be releasing this phone to the public so we'll wait to see when that drops all right guys let's take a breather and check out some more info with seen its own sue me Dawson seth rosenblatt got a chance to check out the latest with Google's self-driving cars it's an amazing demonstration of technology white SUVs winding through the streets of Mountain View California yielding to pedestrians and navigating intersections sounds ordinary but these are Google's self-driving cars Google self-driving car is a car that's been outfitted with the latest in lidar and other sensing technologies to drive your car without a human behind the wheel using that tech the vehicle detects every car person an object in the immediate area google has been developing these autonomous vehicles since 2009 and aims to make them available by 2017 previously they'd been really restricted to freeway test conditions and now they are working in an actual city which is a much more complex driving situation in many ways the cars handle the streets better than humans by avoiding other cars blind spots and shifting slightly in the lane to make room for cyclists but the software in these vehicles is far from being ready to ship in a parking lot there are no lane lines and many cars are reversing it's a challenge that engineers at Google haven't solved just yet thanks for that first look guys in is pretty amazing to see how that project has evolved over time and the goofs always drops a surprise on us once in a while with their google doodles and this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the rubik's cube Google delivered with a fully interactive virtual Rubik's Cube now this is pretty awesome stuff if you missed it you can go to the link on the bottom of the screen and I solved the cube but I just didn't want to reveal to you how I did it all right guys and gals that's gonna do for this week email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me up brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time for some more of that Google Isha's get alicious