Places and Things

Google Assistant can now help order takeout from restaurants online The pandemic has made ordering restaurant takeout a little less of a guilty pleasure, both because it’s safer and it helps support local businesses. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/14/22382754/google-duplex-web-assistant-online-food-orders-android

With help from the Google Assistant, you can customize your entertainment at home with just your voice: ask the Assistant to play your favorite part of a song, pause the game on your Chromecast-enabled TV to grab some snacks or dim the lights before the movie starts. from https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/21/google-assistant-rolls-out-to-several-bose-speakers-and-soundbars/ http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google Assistant lives in your home and might have its own button on your phone. Now it's in your Android Messages texting app, too. I got a hands-on demo of how exactly it works, here at MWC 2019 in Barcelona.  from https://www.cnet.com/news/google-put-assistant-into-its-android-texting-app-and-its-pretty-cool-mwc/ https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/-DDyf1CmM-r-w2z-7gUmDkUq1Do=/970x0/2019/02/25/7f90a402-ca42-4561-8e2b-cb885557185e/google-assistant-messages-android.jpg

Google Assistant is coming to Android Messages, one in a series of major updates introduced today at the start of Mobile World Congress Barcelona. Contextual integration of Google Assistant will be made available in Android Messages over the course of the coming months. from https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/25/android-messages-gets-google-assistant-suggestions/ https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IMG_20190108_1031381.jpg?fit=578%2C433&strip=all

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