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Why Google’s smart assistant doesn’t have a name like Siri, Alexa, or Cortana

Thomson ReutersA protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, symbolic of the hacktivist group Anonymous, takes part in a protest in central Brussels. See Also A Google programmer drew a cartoon that perfectly encapsulates its confusing product names For the first time, Google beat Apple in PC sales — and that’s really bad news for Microsoft …

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Google Plots Home Invasion

Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company’s annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday with a keynote address that included previews of a batch of new products. Among those showcased were Google Assistant, a tool that can understand and respond to complex questions in real time; and Home, Google’s highly anticipated response to Amazon’s Echo …

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Google Home Your Personal Assistant

Among the most significant announcements on Day One of Google I/O 2016, taking spot in Mountain View, property to Google, is Google Home, a voice-activated solution that brings the Google assistant to any space in your home. Google Home is primarily based on a new conversational Google assistant which further’s Google’s mission:  “to organize the world’s information …

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Google Home: A Smarter Alternative to Amazon’s Alexa-Powered Echo?

If you’ve hesitated about acquiring Amazon’s Echo, your reticence may have paid off. Sometime this fall, Google will release its own voice-activated assistant/Wi-Fi speaker called Google Home, which may be smarter than Amazon’s Alexa or even Apple’s Siri, with a wider array of compatibilities and capabilities than either. Introduced at Google’s I/O Developer’s conference earlier …

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Drones could deliver pig-to-human drone transplants: Rothblatt

United Therapeutics CEO Martine Rothblatt speaking during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Saturday, March 14, 2015 in Austin, Texas.(Photo: Jack Plunkett, AP) Martine Rothblatt, futurist and founder of Sirius XM, says by the time her biotech company’s genetically modified transplant organs are in use, drones will likely deliver them. Rothblatt gave her view of the future …

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Google I/O 2016: Google Home Officially Revealed; Company’s Answer To Amazon Echo?

(Photo : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google Home is expected to be released later this year with no word yet on an exact release date or price. Google just unveiled its voice-activated home device that would compete against Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo during its annual I/O conference on Wednesday. The device is simply called Google Home, and …

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