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Google announced today that its Google Assistant is now compatible with over 5,000 smart devices, up 1,500 from January.
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To date, Google’s podcast strategy has amounted to adding podcast support to Google Play Music. That’s changing.
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Google’s “other revenues” business, which includes G Suite, Pixel, Home, and Nest, barely grew-year over-year.
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Google now lets users of its Home smart speakers to connect to all Bluetooth speakers without needing a Chromecast.
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A credible report explaining how Apple failed to capitalize on being first-to-market with Siri has triggered some fan fiction.
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Routines represent the second-generation of the digital assistant era, where we move past simple command/response interactions.
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Amazon’s $1 billion purchase of smart home security firm Ring is big news, but it could result in a chilling new era of fragmentation.
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If you believe some of the more speculative stories on the internet right now, this question won’t be hypothetical for long. Continue reading Would you allow Facebook into your home?
Websites used to be uglier than they are now. Sure, you can still find a few disasters, but back in the early days of the Web you’d have found blinking banners, spinning text, music backgrounds, and bizarre navigation themes. Practices evolve, and now there’s much less variation between professionally-designed sites.
In a mirror of the world of hypertext, the same thing is going to happen with voice user interfaces (or VUIs). As products like Google Home and Amazon Echo get more users, developing VUIs will become a big deal. We are also starting to see hacker projects that use VUIs …read more
Google Assistant on smart speakers is getting updated with an improved alarm feature, ability to look up TV schedules, and more.
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