Google chairman Eric Schmidt has dismissed reports that the company will merge its Android and Chrome OS operating systems into one. Schmidt told attendees at Google’s Big Tent event in New Delhi, India, this week that both platforms will “remain separate for a very long time.”

It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since Google last made major changes to Google Play, but it appears the company has been hard at work on another big overhaul. The Google Play 4.0 update has been leaked ahead of its official release, and it shows off a brand new look that seems to better fit Android’s Holo user interface guidelines.

Google has released an interesting update for Google Currents, which adds support for audio playback, along with various other minor updates such as synchronization of post read-states between devices.

Could we be seeing the Nexus 5? According to an anonymous source that claims they work for Google, this is it. It’s a device equipped with the latest cutting-edge technology that promises to be the smartphone to beat for 2013. To us, it looks more like a fanboy’s mockup.

Google is rumored to be unifying all of its existing messaging services under one umbrella called “Babble,” according to a report from Geek.com. The upcoming service will reportedly unify Google Talk, Voice, Messenger, Drive, and the Google+ version of Talk, and Hangouts under one roof.

Although the name itself seems a little ridiculous, Babble sounds like a step in the right direction for Google.