May 13, 2021
If you’ve been spending the past few months telling your Google Assistant to tell you a Quidditch story, you’ll love this weekend’s update from Google. According to XDA Developers, new features have been added to Google Assistant, and among them is the addition of
“new stories and games that can be accessed from a smart display or Android device.”
This includes more stories from
Quidditch Through the Ages, as revealed in the article from XDA Developers and in Google’s own blog post on the subject. (The information on Quidditch Through the Ages: Highlights also confirms that there are now five excerpts from the book available to users.)
Google adds new features to the assistant, includes games, bells and new languages
You can also embarrass yourself by playing Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Google is adding new features to its Assistant, helping families come together just in time for Motherâs Day.
In a blog post, Google revealed that itâs extending its Broadcast feature so that it can be used even when youâre not at home. Until now, the feature was only available on Nest devices, but it’s expanding to iOS and Android devices, provided the person is in your âFamily Group.â The new Google Assistant functionality is identical to Alexa’s Drop-In feature, which allows you to send a message to your Alexa smart speakers and displays using either an Alexa-enabled device or the Alexa app on your smartphone.
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My kid may be back at school on a part-time basis now, but for a solid year, like so many kids across this world, he sat at home and we tried our hardest to keep him focused on his schoolwork. The first few months were the hardest, because we had no idea what we were doing. Then, the start of a new school year arrived and Google happened to push out its Google Assistant Family Bell feature at that same time. It changed everything. The added bit of structure helped all of us stay on task, know when meetings or work needed to be done, and laugh at the goofy messages we programmed Assistant to say.