Google Assistant comes to “smart displays” (smart speakers with touchscreen displays)

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Smart speakers are everywhere at the Consumer Electronics Show… but they don’t all look like speakers.

Google has announced that its Google Assistant voice service is now a voice-and-visual service and companies including Lenovo, LG, JBL, and Sony are introducing “smart displays” with Google Assistant integration.

They’re basically smart speakers that respond to voice commands, but which can also play videos, display visual cards for things like traffic and weather updates, and respond to touch commands.

In other words, they’re like the Amazon Echo Show… but with Google Assistant instead of Alexa. 

Other features include support for video calls using Google Duo, support for showing pictures from Google Photos, and… YouTube. That seems obvious, but it’s also noteworthy since Google and Amazon have been in a spat over Google’s decision to block the Echo Show (and Fire TV) from accessing YouTube.

This isn’t the first time Google Assistant has had a visual component. It initially rolled out as a feature for the Google Allo chat app on smartphones before it was available as a voice assistant. Google Assistant is also available on some Android TV devices including the NVIDIA Shield TV, and Google says it’s coming to more Android TV devices through software updates set to roll out this year. 

The company has also announced that new headphones from Jaybird, JBL, LG, and Sony that are optimized for Google Assistant will roll out this year, and Google Assistant is also coming to Android Auto for hands-free use in the car.

One thing we haven’t seen announced this week? The long-rumored Google Home speaker with a built-in display. So far Google has only announced that Assistant is coming to third-party hardware. Does that mean there isn’t a Google-built device in the works? Not necessarily. Google might just be waiting to introduce it later this year (maybe at Google I/O?).

Or maybe the rumors got their wires crossed. It looks like it’s true that Google Assistant hardware with displays were in the works, and it’s likely that Google was testing some of that hardware in house. It’s just not clear if Lenovo built and/or planned to sell its own hardware in this category.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if Google was working on a reference platform, because the company says three of the four smart displays announced today (the JBL, Lenovo, and LG models) feature Qualcomm SD624 Home Hub chips. The Sony model is coming later this year and it will be powered by a MediaTek MT8173 system-on-a-module. 

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Liverpool fans are understandably raging over the latest news on Naby Keita

How they could do with him now.

Liverpool supporters are still getting used to a Coutinho-less future. Despite months and months of speculation, and a transfer seeming more and more inevitable as the weeks wore on, the eventual end was somewhat abrupt. Many were still hoping that the player could be convinced to stay until the end of the season to aid their Champions League/top four charge. Indeed it transpires that Jurgen Klopp indeed tried to loan him back from Barca until the summer.
But alas it was not to be. For whatever reason, Coutinho's immediate departure was approved, and now the Anfield club look a player short to compete on both domestic and continental fronts. Sure they have Adam Lallana returning from a layoff to add a creative spark to the team, and a remaining 75% of the recently christened 'Fab Four' are still around, but an injury or two could mean a troubling shortage of real quality. That's where Naby Keita becomes a factor.

The dynamic box-to-box midfielder is obviously destined for Anfield at the season's end, with Liverpool agreeing a £48m plus deal in August. But Coutinho's departure means that Klopp and his board have consequently explored the possibility of getting him to the club earlier than planned. That would obviously require RB Leipzig's blessing and a further financial sweetener. But Leipzig's straight response has the Anfield faithful beside themselves and understandably annoyed.

Keita's current club have reportedly said no deal, with empathic clarity. They don't want the early transfer to disrupt their season. It's not that Liverpool's support blame the Bundesliga outfit for their stance - quite the opposite in fact. They totally understand and appreciate it. What annoys them is that they wish their own club had had the same resolve in keeping Coutinho until the end of the season too.

So galling is the comparison that a few changes to the Leipzig's stand makes the difference in attitude jarringly clear. Time will tell if the club will end up regretting their decision.
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NEWSBREAKING: Football star, Emmanuel Eboue is Dead

Football star, Emmanuel Eboue has been found dead by authorities in his sister’s house in North London. This development is coming shortly after Eboue’s divorce troubles and the loss of all his property and wealth to his ex-wife came was made public.

According to Information Nigeria, Eboue is believed to have struggled with long-term depression, did not leave a note behind and he was found hanging in the room on a fan hook, Police said in a statement.
Investigators declined to comment on whether it was suicidal or a perpetrated act but assured the public an investigation is ongoing. Eboue had received tons of offers on legal advice in his bid to overturn a court ruling which was set to leave him homeless in the wake of his bitter divorce.

His wife, Aurelie was given all his property and wealth after she filed for a divorce from him. 

LATEST;You cannot stop Muslims from entering America, Court tells Trump as he suffers humiliating defeat again -

President Donald Trump has suffered another humiliating defeat again as a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order's implementation of his revised travel ban which was expected to take effect hours later.

The judge who blocked Donald Trump's revised executive order barring travel from six predominantly Muslim nations has said it "targets Islam"
Consequently, the court verdict was the latest legal blow to Trump’s efforts to temporarily ban refugees as well as travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries, which the he said is needed for national security

The president signed the new ban on March 6 in a bid to overcome legal problems with a January executive order that caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February.

According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson put an emergency stop to the new order in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii, which argued that the order discriminated against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The judge wrote: “A reasonable, objective observer... would conclude that the Executive Order was issued with a purpose to disfavour a particular religion, in spite of its stated, religiously-neutral purpose."

He added: “It is undisputed, using the primary source upon which the Government itself relies, that these six countries have overwhelmingly Muslim populations that range from 90.7 percent to 99.8 percent."

"It would therefore be no paradigmatic leap to conclude that targeting these countries likewise targets Islam. Certainly, it would be inappropriate to conclude, as the Government does, that it does not."

Trump who denied the orders are a "Muslim ban" says his plans was an “extreme vetting.”

“It’s not the Muslim ban," he told ABC News. "But it’s countries that have tremendous terror… countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems.”

However, the Trump administration has also said the ban is not religiously motivated because the six countries only represent a small fraction – around nine per cent – of the world’s Muslim population.

Meanwhile, Trump called the judge's block "unprecedented judicial overreach" and said he will take the case "as far as it needs to go," including to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, in the video below, Nigerians have continued to react to the return of President Muhammadu Buhari after 51 days of absence.

BREAKING: EFCC intercepts cash at Kaduna airport;

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted bags containing N49 million cash at Kaduna Airport.

The anti-graft agency made the interception on Tuesday, March 14 at the airport.

It will be recalled that the Kaduna Airport became the diversion point for flights scheduled for Abuja Airport due to the repair work going on planned for six week's

Although the owner of the cash has not been named, there is suspicion that it is related to illegal activities considering the EFCC was involved and was on hand to intercept it perhaps based on intelligence report.

A few weeks ago, the EFCC recovered $9.8million in cash from a secret bunker owned by Dr. Andrew Yakubu who is a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

According to a post the EFCC, the discovery was made on February 3 in a building belonging to Yakubu which is located in the slums of Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna.

The anti-graft agency the former NNPC GMD confessed that the money was his and that it was given to him by unnamed persons.

BREAKING: EFCC intercepts cash at Kaduna airport;

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted bags containing N49 million cash at Kaduna Airport.

The anti-graft agency made the interception on Tuesday, March 14 at the airport.

It will be recalled that the Kaduna Airport became the diversion point for flights scheduled for Abuja Airport due to the repair work going on planned for six week's

Although the owner of the cash has not been named, there is suspicion that it is related to illegal activities considering the EFCC was involved and was on hand to intercept it perhaps based on intelligence report.

A few weeks ago, the EFCC recovered $9.8million in cash from a secret bunker owned by Dr. Andrew Yakubu who is a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

According to a post the EFCC, the discovery was made on February 3 in a building belonging to Yakubu which is located in the slums of Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna.

The anti-graft agency the former NNPC GMD confessed that the money was his and that it was given to him by unnamed persons.