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Introducing Google Home, a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own Google, always ready to help. Just start by saying, “Ok Google” to enjoy music, get answers straight from Google, manage your everyday tasks, and easily control smart devices around the home.

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Google Home is part Bluetooth speaker, part Google Assistant, all Amazon Echo competitor. For $129, it brings super-powered voice control into every nook and cranny of your house.

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At Google’s annual hardware event, the company finally provided us with more details on its Echo competitor Home. Google Home will go on sale today for $129 and ships November 4. Fredric took a quick look at the device at today's event.

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The $129 Home smart speaker plays a vital role in Google’s futuristic vision of “a Google for everyone” powered by its omnipresent Assistant. It sounds like a big deal, but we decided to have some fun with the new assistant instead.

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Google Home is the $129 Echo competitor that puts the search giant's much-touted new Google Assistant intelligence technology inside a small, but powerful Echo-like speaker and microphone.

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If you have a Google Home or Chromecast Audio we show you what you need to setup a whole-home music system.

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We asked the Google Home and the Amazon Echo the same 17 questions to find out how they respond differently.

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Google's smart speaker outdoes Amazon in some key ways.

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Use your voice to launch movies and music on your TV.

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Google's version of Amazon Alexa, complete with games and trivia!

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At CES 2017, you can control your car with your voice.

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How to customize the appearance of Google Home
dek: If you don't like the stock appearance of Google Home, here are two quick and easy ways to make it truly yours.

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Just for fun I connected an ESP8266 to Chip-E and opened up a port on the home router so the Maker IFTTT service could reach the robot. Now Google Home can ask my robot to do things over it's serial port

At this time Chip-E was programmed with Otto's Smooth Criminal sketch and it waits for serial data before dancing. When the ESP8266 receives a request for the dance URL it triggers the robot to start. A simple hack that could easily do much much more.

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In todays video I go over my top 5 reason to buy the Amazon Echo over the Google Home. After living with both devices for quite some time I go over the pros of the Echo and the best applications it's used for.

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As a voice assistant, Google Home is supposed to make your life easier. Here are five of the most useful commands to try.

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The smart speaker is criticized for spreading conspiracy theories about President Obama and other untrue statements as part of its spoken search results.

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