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Almost every home electronic product is becoming "smart" nowadays with technology keeps improving. Today, Panasonic has launched a new WiFi-enabled Smart LED Bulb that offers a wide range of features to upgrade users' lifestyles. Now, let's take a look at what the "smart" lightbulb does!

A major reason why people use voice assistants is that it can often be tedious to type things out. It's even better when the device can recognise your voice and provide you with personalised results. That's what the Voice Match feature on Google Assistant does and it could be coming to Android TV soon.

Today, Google have announced that Google Assistant can now read whatever news articles aloud. Known as "Read It", the update will roll out later this year and soon Android users will be able to command Google Assistant to do so and it's fluent in 42 languages. All the user has to do is just say "Hey Google, read it" or "Hey Google, read this page".

The Xiaomi Mijia was found to have a very critical security problem recently. For some reason, Xiaomi's security cameras are able to capture still images from other cameras' feeds. Google was made aware of this issue soon enough and Xiaomi is hopefully already in the midst of resolving it.

If there's one feature that many travellers want on their smartphones, it's language interpretation. Google first rolled this out for smart speaker or display with Google Assistant, which was a weird choice since those aren't as portable. But according to 9to5Google, we are finally getting the feature on Android and iOS smartphones.

Do you know Google Assistant can help you to purchase movie tickets? Not only that, you can just do it with using your voice. How does it work you may ask, it all thanks to Google Duplex, a human-sounding AI-based voice service. Now, Google Duplex can be used on the web to buy movie tickets! However, the feature is only available in the US and the UK for now.

Google introduced four new security and privacy tools at Google I/O today. The new tools include a new Password Checkup built into the Google password manager, Incognito mode in Google Maps, auto-delete history for Youtube, and Voice deletion for Google Assistant activity.

The first update of Youtube Music of 2019 (version 2.65), isn’t that big of an update. Or is it? Source codes in the app reveals that the app may be evolving into a music player for Android devices which may replace Play Music, thus turning it into Android’s default music player.

We may be seeing Harman Kardon speakers being fitted into Samsung smartphones pretty soon – buw how about something different? Harman Kardon and Microsoft is set to collaborate in creating a new device to go against Amazon Alexa and Google Home. This new device will come built in with Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant as well.

In just a few hours ago, Google I/O 2016 kicked off in California, USA and they didn't waste any time announcing several Android and Google features, on this topic, we will take a look at their first two announced features - Google Assistant and Google Home. But what are they?