Smart Assistant brain slugs invented to allow changing of Amazon/Google hotwords
While Amazon’s Alexa allowed you to choose a couple, and as my children discovered you can say “Potato Poophole” to
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2019: The year it became impossible to buy a roll of toilet paper without a smart assistant built in
If you haven’t heard, Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa are coming to everything. Both companies have opened up connectivity and
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Lenovo drops a smart clock at CES with Google Assistant, but is it anything a Google Home Hub isn’t?
I’ve got a real love of the Lenovo Smart Displays with Google Assistant – basically these take a Google Home
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Chromecast hack? Nope, looks like shitty routers.
As mentioned earlier, security people I’m following and talking to have mostly dismissed that Chromecast + UPnP was to blame
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One of the two Chromecast hackers bids Bye Felicia
One of the two Chromecast / Google Home hackers has removed himself from the internet for a while, here’s what
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65000+ Chromecasts/Speakers hijacked
Evidently thousands of Chromecasts and Google Home devices were hijacked into promoting a YouTube star. Several sources are claiming it’s
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Lenovo Smart Displays finally getting an update this week
About two weeks ago Lenovo announced in their forums that the R5 update was being released and it was an
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How to use Google Assistant and a multicolored LED bulb to make a child sleep light
The purpose of this project is to have a light be a certain color when it’s near bedtime, another color
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Merry Christmas ya filthy animal – Google Home Alone
Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin ha released an ad for Google Assistant and it’s pretty amusing. I should probably write about
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Goodbye Google Home
A couple of days ago I picked up an Insignia Speaker with Google Assistant built in. They were $80 off
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How to use Google Assistant (and others,) to control your PC, Mac, Pi, etc
Need to remotely nuke a folder on your computer? Want to require a second factor before allowing remote desktop communications?
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