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The BBC has admitted that it is blocking all of its podcasts from appearing in Google Podcasts, Search, and Assistant. For some reason.
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Google now documents the APIs required for smart blinds to hook into Assistant.
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Two models of Android TVs showed a stream of strangers’ Google accounts, along with profile pics, though not the actual photos. Continue reading Google Photos disables sharing on Android TV
Google and Apple could be working on bringing official Apple Music integration to Google Home speakers.
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A new report says that smart speaker sales hit a new record in the holiday quarter of 2018, with 86.2 million units sold.
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Google is reportedly planning to launch new Pixel 3 Lite line of phones, a new security camera, Pixel 4, a new Home, and a new Watch this year.
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Google announced this week that its Nest Secure smart alarm system now offers Google Assistant capabilities via its Nest Guard base station.
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To quote the greatest philosopher of the 20th century: “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Take personal assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. When first predicted by sci-fi writers, the idea of instant access to the sum total of human knowledge with a few utterances seemed like a no-brainer; who wouldn’t want that? But now that such things are a reality, having something listening to you all the time and potentially reporting everything it hears back to some faceless corporate monolith is unnerving, to say the least.
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Google Assistant gets new features on Android, and a new Interpreter Mode on Smart Displays.
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Google Assistant will soon be available on a billion devices, with number of active users growing 4x over the last year.
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