Tag Archives: Assistant

I don’t know how to say this, but sometimes the emotional labor of opening another app on my phone and typing in some text is just too much. I need to gather details about an Airbnb reservation from two different confirmation emails and send them to my friends. Or I want to figure out when to leave this coffee shop to get home by a certain time via bus. These aren’t hard things to do, but they require enough tapping around different apps or tabbing between screens that I start to think,… Source link

June Wan/ZDNET When you say, “Hey, Google, play the news” your phone, tablet, or speaker will give you a vocal summary of the news, like a podcast geared specifically for important events that have gone on around the world. But where and how does it select the sources it draws on?  You. Also: The best smart speakers: Sonos, Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and more compared Or, more specifically, your configuration options. Although, out of the box, Google Assistant is configured with certain news… Source link

What you need to know Samsung’s updated support page states Google Assistant will disappear from its smart TVs on March 1, 2024. Many of Samsung’s 8K and 4K QLED models and others from 2020 to 2022 will no longer have the Assistant. Google recently announced seventeen features its removing from Assistant as it prepares to integrate it with Bard. Several of Samsung’s smart TVs are preparing to go on without Google Assistant, according to an updated support page (via SamMobile). Per Samsung, “due… Source link

A total of 17 features will be removed from Google Assistant in February 2024. But that’s not all—Samsung is actually removing Google Assistant from all of its smart TVs. This unprecedented change takes place on March 1st. In a support article, Samsung explains that a “change in Google’s policy” is responsible for the depreciated Assistant support. The policy change in question is unknown. Samsung goes on to say that Bixby and Alexa are still supported on its TVs. “Due to a change in… Source link

Google Assistant has scrapped more than a dozen of its more “underutilized” features in the new year, and the culling’s latest victim appears to be the best Samsung TVs. Samsung confirmed this week that it’s winding down support for the search giant’s virtual assistant, and Google Assistant will soon no longer be available on its line of smart TVs, including existing models. On a Samsung support page, the company said that, as of March 1, Google Assistant functionality will be removed from… Source link

Samsung integrated Google Assistant into its TVs back in 2020, but now, that whole project is dead. Google Assistant isn’t exactly rare on TVs, with the voice assistant available on virtually all Android TV and Google TV products. It has also made its way to some other platforms, including Samsung’s Tizen. In 2019, Samsung announced that the 2020 model year for its TV sets, Google Assistant would be on board. That continued through the next few lineups, and was… Source link

Summary Google Assistant will no longer be available on Samsung TVs starting March 1st, 2024, due to a change in Google’s policy. Users will need to switch to Bixby or Amazon Alexa as alternatives for voice control on compatible Samsung TVs. There have been ongoing issues with Google Assistant on Samsung TVs, including missing support on newer models and broken setup processes. Google Assistant lost more than a dozen features in January, and it doesn’t look like things… Source link

Summary Google backtracks on killing off Assistant Driving Mode, but users will still lose access to the app launcher within Maps. Without the app launcher, all that exists of Assistant Driving Mode is a media player and an Assistant shortcut, effectively leaving the UI dead regardless of its name. The shift to Android Auto and Automotive suggests that Google may leave older vehicles and drivers behind, with no new car-friendly UI attempts in sight. In a classic case of… Source link

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the entire experience. Google tells us that is not the case, and here’s what will be left of Assistant Driving Mode after February 7. In short, Assistant Driving Mode is the black bar that appears at the bottom of Google Maps when you’re navigating. At the moment, it can… Source link

Google Assistant is the search engine tech giant’s answer to Siri that responds to “Hey Google!” In case you missed it, “Google Assistant with Bard” is now in the works, which is set to underpin the assistant with Bard (i.e., Google’s AI-powered chatbot). And now, thanks to a new leak, we’re seeing some semblance of its existence. ‘Google Assistant with Bard’ demo found in Pixel Tips app Since October, Google hasn’t said much about its plan to enhance its voice assistant with its powerful Bard… Source link