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what good brian Tong here with everything google that we can pack inside of a show right off the top Google i/o 2016 registration is now open and will be held at the shoreline amphitheater in Mountain View California on May eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth it's a more suburban business office area instead of an awesome city with tons of things to do like San Francisco now it's nine hundred dollars per ticket or three hundred if you're a student so I suggest you sign up for one credit of underwater basket weaving at your local junior college like immediately now once you register Google will randomly select applicants to invite to the show google i/o has always been a showcase of the latest hardware and software and we expect to see a preview of Android n with its expected May eighteenth release date after the keynote now no one still really knows what the N in Android stands for typically flavors of Android have been sweet treats so the end could stand for nougat or Nutella I want to know what you think and will read some of your responses next week you can just tweet me at Brian tongue or I'll dare to look at the YouTube comments and see what you all come up with all right the Samsung Galaxy s7 reviews are out in its hands down the best galaxy phone to date that we've seen and arguably the best phone on the market right now which it should be it's getting great reviews for its design it's big boy battery life and a killer camera reviewers still complain about TouchWiz which has become less intrusive and some of the additional carrier blow air but I'll wait to check out the material design theme myself before I dismiss the software now its waterproofing as a standout as well and youtuber jerry-rigged everything took one apart to showcase what internals are protected that allowed this phone the last 30 minutes underwater at 1.5 meters and people just love scene phones get torn apart anyways alright the u.s. 7 is a great boost for Android but Android adoption to its latest operating system is still very slow based on manufacturers and carrier rollouts marshmallow adoption almost doubled to just two point three percent since last month lollipop 5.1 5.1 makeup 36.1 percent while KitKat is at 34.3 now marshmallow will get a big boost the next few months with new phones coming out that's where we tend to see the biggest bump into adoption not from carrier updates but new hardware chromecast is making some good noise according to strategy analytics Google streaming dongle made up as much as thirty five percent of the streaming market in 2015 Bestine Roku Apple and Amazon Apple TV still leads the pack in total shipments at 37 million since 2007 but the chromecast is nearly 30 million over just two and a half years see digital streaming just keeps getting bigger now more important than video streaming Google's acquisition of satellite imaging companies skybox from a couple of years ago is now rebranding itself as terra bella initially they were proposed to help keep google maps accurate with up-to-date imagery now their goal is to pioneer the search for patterns change in the physical world using their satellite imagery the hope is to help address global economic environmental and humanitarian challenges you know no big deal now more than a dozen satellites are set to launch by 2020 and I love seeing some of Google's big ideas finally getting a chance for practical use after the economic times reports Google's Project loon is in talks with India telcos to launch a pilot program if you don't remember a project loon is there internet delivery balloon system that now has their own auto launcher system and can successfully deliver speeds up 15 megabits per second that's fast enough for streaming video like your favorite ones from cnet now the government has been very supportive of the technology but its deal with the telcos will be necessary to make it happen alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that Google ishes google Isha's