hello Automators. We're ready for a whole new set of updates new products
and new features related to your Google Assistant and of course the Google Home
products now if you haven't already joined automate your life on youtube
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weeks to make sure you have the latest news related to your Google Assistant
and your Google Home products and of course we show all kinds of tutorials
for how to use that within your smart home the first piece of news to talk
about is the new way that Google Assistant will tell you what it can do
so if you use the Google Assistant application and you simply ask the
question what can you do you get a whole new breakdown now on top of that what i
want to show you is there's a brand new feature that is sitting front and center
on what you can do that is the notes and lists feature now you're able to
actually utilize parts of this now and we've seen this slow roll out from
Google what are my lists you have three lists their to-do items guest and
shopping lists create a new list okay what do you want to call it video ideas
alright starting a list called video ideas take a note
sure what's the note make sure I get my dog on time so there you go that's just
a quick demo there's a lot more functionality to go through and I will
go through a full demo here on the channel next week but I wanted to show
you that you could actually use this in some cases on your Google Home and I
will tell you that the Google Assistant really has the full interface already
set up you can walk through your different lists and you can walk through
your notes some of the biggest product news has come out from Google themselves
now they didn't release this officially but what is being reported by some of
their suppliers and manufacturers is that we should expect a new google Home
device in 2019 as well as a new SmartWatch and a new nest camera all of
this in 2019 the details are scarce of course but when I look through some of
the FCC filings and I put together some of my knowledge what
I'm seeing is actually the opportunity for a new Google Home Hub type of device
that is also a Wi-Fi mesh router Epson is a printer company and they have gone
ahead and added Google Assistant support to their ecotank, workforce, and
expression printer series so you're able to actually control and start print jobs
through your Epson printer and the Google Assistant
information of course because that is a health related website now for a few
things Google's not going to love that I'm going to talk about here but Google
has had a couple of issues here related to nest and we've been following a
couple of these stories for a while now nest is locking users out of their
accounts if their accounts have been compromised and nest is able to identify
this and we've seen this in the past and there were some people that were getting
some messages on their nest cameras so nest is taking the action of if your
account has been compromised by some third party service then they've gone
ahead and locked that out now on top of that we heard about the new capability
of the nest secure having a microphone on board and basically becoming a Google
Home Mini type device now what's funny about that is that microphone that's on
that device was never listed in the technical specifications now Google has
come out and said hey you know what we just never listed it there we've never
turned it on it's not being used for anything but it was at some point going
to be turned on to listen for things like breaking glass the final little
piece here about Google and and some of their media issues right now the Google
Assistant actually did show some advertisements in the search results and
this was a mistake this has only been reported basically by one user and it
showed a few ad results and this is on a mobile device so I can see how this
would go on and I would expect that to happen over time as Google Assistant
gets more integrated with things like Chrome speaking of chrome the Chrome OS
72 now has full direct integration of the Google Assistant so if you have
something like a pixel book you're going to find Google Assistant on board
integrated fully I'm sure we all saw the s10 plus from Samsung with Google
Assistant integration of course they have their Bixby voice assistant as well
on there from Samsung but LG has actually come out and I'm just going to
read these three models with three models they're relatively budget models
so the q60 the k-50 and the forty and you know part and parcel to
what we've seen from LG is all three of them have a Google Assistant trigger
button alright guys that's all I have for you this week of course here come
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watching and we'll see you next time