Paul’s Tech Makeover: Baby Steps to a Smarter Home (Premium)

Anyone interested in smart home technologies will immediately run into a long list of issues. And it’s hard to know where to start.
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Google Home Now Supports Multiple Queries and Actions

With little fanfare, Google has bumped the number of simultaneous queries and actions its Home smart speakers can handle at once.
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Google Will Finally Release Its Own Podcasts App

A Google-centric blog has discovered evidence that the search giant will finally release its own podcasts app for Android.
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Teddy Ruxpin: Navigate to 143 Main Street

In the United States, TV and radio stations have to give the opportunity of equal airtime to all candidates. In that spirit, we thought we should show you [Jayden17’s] hack that puts Google Assistant into a Teddy Ruxpin. You can see the hacked bear do its thing in the video below.

Teddy was the best-selling toy for 1985 and 1986, and is still available, so over 30 years there are a lot of these hanging around. If you never looked at how they work, the original ones were quite simple. A cassette player routed one stereo channel to a speaker …read more

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