How to group Smart lights in Google Assistant (kinda)
While I bet this will be solved soon enough, right now if you have multiple smart lights in a room
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Setting up a deadman’s switch (probably to kill your porn folder you perv,) using Assistant
A few days ago I saw something along the lines of “real friends delete your porn folder when you die.”
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Continued conversation rolling out for Assistant-enabled smart displays
According to a blog post from Bibo Xu, the Google Assistant PM, continued conversation is rolling out to all smart
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Insignia’s Google Assistant-integrated Speakers closing gaps
If you own a Lenovo, Insignia, Sonos, Harman, or any of the not Google-owned speakers that work with Google Assistant,
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How to fix a petulant Google Home
I had an interesting experience with one of my original Google Home units where I would ask it what the
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You can now audio Duo call another Google Home speaker, some hoops required.
It’s not quite walkie-talkie level awesome, and it requires that the person initiating the audio be recognized, know the name
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Too many The Googles
I reached peak saturation with Google recently and have run into some interesting issues. Maybe interesting only to me, and
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Google’s Ambient mode can now be told to shut up and display bad photos
If you’ve ever made a collage simply for sharing of 50 or so pictures and then discovered that the Google
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What happened with Paul’s Nest demo?
Not a huge secret for those who stalk my every move, but I’ve been on TV five or six times
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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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