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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to Google issues for everything inside the world of Google now the tech world was fixated on Apple last week with their new announcements and we can all agree there wasn't really anything groundbreaking with the iPhone X but solid upgrades for users across the board now Google is up next for their big phone announcement after they tease the date for October the 4th we know it's going to be all about the next pixel but there's an easter egg on the page thanks to nine-to-five google taking a look at the source code of the ask more page and a little digging reveals a picture of a black and white cookie with multicolored dots but digging even deeper into the exif data the GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken lead to Googleplex and from the camera listed that took the picture the message not that easy of course it says that even with all the leaks we'll find out the official pixel two details in about two more weeks all right the Bose QuietComfort 35 twos have been revealed as the first Google assistant powered headphones and are expected to go on sale on September the 22nd now it really came about as an accident after someone found a pair put on the retail floor to Best Buy and was told they couldn't purchase them until the 22nd with a retail price of 349 dollars now Google still might announce their own hardware at the October 4th event but we were expecting to hear about their new beasto platform first at the pixel event and not on store shelves all right Samsung's physical bixby button has been a pain in the button since day one after Bixby came late to the party and you know what it's really kind of been a hot-button issue now according to Sam mobile a new toggle option is appearing on some s8 and Note 8 devices after a recent Samsung software update it gives you the option to turn off going to Bixby home with a single press it doesn't disable the feature entirely and if you press and hold you'll still launch Bixby voice so instead of doing the right thing and just letting users customize it the way they want which they were doing until they were blocked by Samsung they just want to remind you it's the button you wish never existed all right this story is pretty cool Google has a new payment system that's exclusive to India it's called tez but what makes it unique is that it's a new payment app that uses ultrasonic audio to send money from one person to another now most mobile payment apps use NFC but tez avoids that because a large portion of users in India don't have phones with NFC now the ultrasonic audio pairs two devices together allowing them to transfer money tez also connects directly to a users Bank and it's available to download on iOS and Android right now it's currently only available in India but Android police has found trademarks that points to them launching it in other countries in Asia in the future so yeah check that out really cool stuff okay Google Earth VR has been a way to look around the world and one of their highlights of their VR platform it's now adding support for street view images so you can view 360 degree photos that people have taken from specific locations like AT&T Park at a San Francisco Giants game it's really sweet and gives you a more realistic view of what certain places look like Google's rolling it out to both the HTC vive and oculus rift and you can also check it out on the street view VR app on Google cardboard and daydream and believe it or not this week on September the 15th exactly 20 years ago in the year 1997 when some of you weren't even born yet the domain google.com was officially registered now the site didn't actually go live until September the 4th 1998 it still did basically the same thing but it's now a whole lot smarter with so many more specific ways to search but it's just fun to look back and think about a company that started in search and that same company is now making phones they're working on bringing Internet to remote areas with Project loon their self-driving cars with the way Moe and so much more but it all started with search engine so happy dome anniversary Google you domain alright that's it for this week you can email me at Google issues at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you next week on Google issues you're delicious