This week we talk about some Alphabet stories (appropriately), Android P DP4 and its tweaks to the gesture system, and an overhaul for Android's notification system in the works...

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Hosts:

Stephen Hall

Abner Li

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Project Loon, Wing graduate from X to become latest Alphabet companies

Waymo gets Jaguar’s first all-electric I-Pace for testing in San Francisco

Android P Developer Preview 4 rolling out to Pixel and Pixel 2

Here’s everything new in Android P Developer Preview 4 [Gallery]

Android P DP4: Icons system-wide are now more in line w/ Google Material Theme

Android P DP4: You can now manually change system theme w/ dark or light colors

Android P DP4: Minor gesture nav tweaks make a big difference in fluidity

Google Pay 2.70 integrates P2P ‘Sending,’ adds ‘Passes’ tab, & Activity feed [Gallery]

Chrome 67 features Site Isolation to counter Spectre on Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS

New color-based Google Assistant voice picker now rolling out in Google app

Google Duo’s multi-device support is rolling out now

Google Keep for Android adds grid and ruled lines for drawings

Chrome Duplex takes shape in latest Canary w/ Omnibar up top, all controls below

Chrome Duplex will be renamed to avoid the obvious confusion with Google Duplex

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