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hey I'm Kareem leaving and I'm Eric no I'm not I'm Emily Dreyfuss surprise and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's biggest tech room and then we vote on what sounds likely and what's probably not true and remember that you can vote on all of the rumors too so keep your eye out for the pull in the interactive player if you're watching on cnet first up google i/o begins this week and we've seen a swell of rumors about what will be unveiled to the show the 1 i'm personally most excited about is also probably the most predictable so nerds wearing Google glass while live narrating the experience of waiting in line at Google i/o okay maybe it's the second most reputable I'm talking about the rumor that we're going to see the next generation of the popular Nexus 7 tablet a KGI Securities analyst says that the tablet will have all upgraded specs and components but the killer part is that the price will remain the same at 199 see people love the Nexus 7 and if they manage to make it faster and lighter and more powerful while keeping the price the same they'll have another hit for sure yeah another rumors swirling around Google's i/o conference is that Google will revamp its Maps interface according to the site Google operating system the web giant will roll out an update that takes away the sidebars and navigational buttons and concentrates more on one big interactive map how are we supposed to navigate without buttons see I think that the whole map will be one big button okay so what is now displayed in the google map sidebar would be overlaid on the top of a full-screen map and there would be new colors and icons but the absolute worst part of this rumor is my least favorite thing on earth google+ supposedly you'd be able to filter the maps now using recommendations from your google+ friends oh great that's really all i need look I just want to buy a huge bag of coffee at costco I don't need my opinion ated Google+ San Francisco friends telling me that I have to get the handcrafted small-batch shade grown organic nonsense from whatever hipster panda poop local coffee place is popular right now with a fixie bike rack whoa lady calm down the next big rumor is that Amazon is going to release two smartphones sounds familiar right we've been hearing about a possible Amazon phone for a year but this Wall Street Journal report adds a new twist it says that one of the rumored devices would supposedly sport 3d hologram images and have a cutting-edge navigation system that you use with just your eyes we saw a computer navigation program like that at CES and it was so rudimentary that all you could do is play fruit ninja hey that is not nothing it's like the only game I know how to play of course this rumor is sourced from anonymous people familiar with the matter so obviously take it with a grain of salt I for one though think it makes sense for Amazon to make a phone they're already in the hardware game as we've said with the kindle and more and more our phone is becoming our ereader our tablet and our television screens so they're not going to want to be left behind but why would it get all 3d gimmicky I don't know but maybe it's because amazon wants to be a content creator now with their new TV shows and they're letting us vote on the pilots and their publishing so maybe this way they could make 3d games next up Microsoft is holding an event on May 21st where it's presumed to announce the next generation Xbox which we've been calling the 720 but others are calling the Infinity gamers feared that the next console would require you to always be online this fear was ramped up after microsoft exec tweeted that having to be online wasn't that big of a deal and people should just hashtag deal with it however that same exact then left the company as a result of those tweets so we can't draw much of a conclusion from what he said now ARS technica is reporting that a new internal email to the Xbox team suggests the opposite that the console won't always need to be plugged into the web according to the report there are a number of scenarios including playing a blu-ray disc watching live TV and playing a single player game in which the console should just quote work regardless of the connection to the internet so not only do you not need to be connected to the internet but the next gen console will also be able to play blu-ray and let you watch live TV sweet what do you guys think will the next gen xbox force you to be connected to the Internet at all times is blu-ray a given are you excited about being able to watch live TV don't forget to vote and leave a comment and we'll check with the cnet council the cnet council is composed of five editors who cast their votes anonymously their opinions are not an endorsement by Cena or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks and the scene at councils verdict is no it's actually a unanimous know our editors said that the next-gen Xbox will not need to be connected to the Internet at all times that's our show everybody please share your rumors that rumor has it at cnet com or call set 1 800 750 cnet and tweet us and I'm so glad you came back a week so glad that I was able to guest host tune in next week for more tech rumors don't forget to vote and leave a comment and we'll check in with the cnet council hey nails really never really knew that I really gave myself a strong donkey yeah you really listen here so I really was like don't mess up