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Amazon Echo and Google Home Head to Head

The Amazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. The device consists of a 9.25-inch (23.5 cm) tall cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The device responds to the name “Alexa”. This “wake word” can be changed by the user to either “Amazon” or “Echo”. The Google Home is a smart speaker developed…

Create Linux Mint Installation Media

To install Linux Mint requires you to download a Linux image file and to create installation media from it. These are the instruction to download and create the Mint media if you are using Windows: 1. Download and install qBittorrent from Ninite, 2. Download the torrent file from linuxmint.com. Open the torrent file and it…

Create Windows 10 Installation Media

If you have done the free Windows 10 upgrade and activated it your machine is entitled to Windows 10 and you can reinstall it anytime you like. You can even do a clean reinstall with no need to return to the old operating system. To reinstall you must first obtain installation media. Here are instructions…

Duo, a new, simple video calling app

Duo is a video chat mobile app developed by Google, available on both Android and iOS. Google Duo will replace Hangouts for video calling within the suite of Googles apps. Features: HD 720p video Optimized for low bandwidth mobile networks. The app optimizes WebRTC and uses QUIC over UDP. Optimisation is further achieved through the degradation…

Pixel Phones

The Pixel and the Pixel XL are the new flagship smartphones from Google, supposedly to compete with the iPhone an the the Samsung phones. The Pixel phones will be anufactured by HTC but for the first time this phone is 100% designed by Google, hardware and software. These new Google phones have some highend specs but…

Google Allo, A Smart Messaging App

Allo is an instant messaging mobile app developed by Google that includes a virtual assistant and provides a “smart reply” function that allows users to reply without typing. Allo’s “Smart reply” function uses Google’s machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the last message, which can be selected from a few options. The feature…

More Hardware Announced At I/O

Announced at Google I/O last week were several hardware products including: Google Home – a Wi-Fi speaker that also works as a smarthome control center and an assistant for the whole family. Daydream view – a high-quality VR headeset. Our goal for Daydream is to simplify the complexity behind virtual reality. Google Wifi – a mesh wifi system…

Google Home

Google Home is a Wi-Fi speaker that also works as a smarthome control center and an assistant for the whole family. You can use it to playback entertainment throughout your entire house, effortlessly manage every-day tasks, and ask Google what you want to know.

Google Assistant

Google Assistant is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google and announced at Google I/O May 2016. It is considered an extension of Google Now. Unlike Google Now, Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations. The assistant is currently integrated in the Allo app.

Windows 10 Free Upgrade Still Available

Windows 10 free upgrade is still available at least for now. Paul Thurrott of Thurrott.com has been checking it regularly and he says it is still working. Be aware that this could end at any time so do the upgrade right away.