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what's up Brian Tong here with your Google issues for everything Google we can pack inside of a show now next week Tuesday August the second is Samsung's big reveal for the note seven but new leaks continue to pour out from Android authority this time it's the lockscreen and security settings that shows irises as one of the options but their disclaimer also details how the iris scanning may not work if you're wearing eyeglasses or sunglasses well duh on that one or either color contact lenses and even circular contact lenses now if you've had LASIK eye surgery it might not work as well and you'll need to hold it at eye level in well-lit conditions with all those caveats it'll be very interesting to see how well it actually performs now other screenshots from this show off the s-pen air commands and the ability to video capture specific parts of your screen but details of the iris scanning setup revealed that users will be asked to position their eyes into two circles at a distance of 25 to 35 centimeters from their face patently mobile uncovered the Samsung patent that outlines how its iris scanner works now the iris recognition system uses three lenses to capture the image and then checks the iris of the user based on the image it's generated and we'll also use images of the user's face for additional information right now it might not be fast enough to replace a fingerprint scanner but we'll see how it all plays out and then the most important Samsung news of the day the Samsung one font has become the company's universal typeface for all of its products like Apple and Google Samsung now has their own font so to be important in this world you need a font like everyone's doing it well that in Bakke Monaco in Google News Google has lost the title as world's favorite company to Apple but on a technicality future brand takes the 100 largest companies by their market cap size and asks 3,000 consumers and industry professionals questions and then ranks them by what they call perception strength and not their financial strength Google dropped all the way to 21st overall because it's now part of alphabet no one really knows alphabet and people still call them Google like even in the show number two was Microsoft number three with Samsung and number four was Walt Disney Google's phone app gets a nice update that will now warn you when you're getting potential spam calls the incoming call will show a red screen and label it as suspected spam caller it's only available for Nexus and Android one devices right now with the latest update on the Google Play Store also Google Maps is getting a few visual changes and cleaning up there look it's subtle but Google is taken away Road outlines which allows for a cleaner look and it's a good thing typography for points of interest is more distinguishable on the map and it stands out they've also added an orange shading to areas of interest where there are activities to do and a new color scheme to help you easily differentiate between man-made or natural features so let's be honest it's a slower news week but this might be my favorite story of the week and especially for my comic book readers on Android devices the Google Play Books app is introducing a new feature called bubble zoom and it's freaking cool using Google's object recognition tech it can now recognize speech bubbles in comics and bubble zoom expands the speech bubbles with a tap on your mobile device while keeping the art exactly the same making it easier to read even on a tablet there are times where this comes in handy and this really needs to be everywhere all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at Google issues at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks much for watching we'll catch you all next time for some more of that delicious Google ishes