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Today's announcement is cloud-only. We also support an older algorithm for offline use that's less computationally intensive.

It runs in the cloud.

Just plug a Chromecast Audio into it.

Google Home is also a multiroom speaker. It also works with Chromecast Audio, Vizio sound bars, etc.

All recent Nexus phones have always-on hotword support. I just tested it from 20 feet ("OK Google, what's the weather like tomorrow") and it worked fine.

In this message I'm trying to make the argument I think they would make (I personally use monospaced fonts). It's not that Acme can't use monospaced fonts, it's that Rob/Russ/other…

Users of Acme, written by Rob Pike. See screenshots on this page and note that the font used is not monospaced. http://acme.cat-v.org/

A significant fraction of the Go core engineers use proportional fonts when programming. On their screens, hard tabs are the only tabs that work. Spaces on proportional fonts are t…

It takes some practice to learn how to dictate a response the way that you would type it. However, it has a lot of advantages. For instance I was able to dictate this response to m…

Feel free to say "Hello" to get a quick tutorial of the assistant features. The Google app understands searches as well as assistant-like features (like "send a text" or "open Face…

Yes.

The "OK Google" voice feature for Chrome is opt-in, not enabled by default. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500922#c...

I think the best use of taxpayer money would be improving the airport experience. The high speed rail initiatives suggested cost many billions of dollars per city served. Suppose t…

Normal watches are jewelry because they no longer have any other purpose for most people. Those who aren't interested in the fashion part of watches have largely stopped wearing th…

You're describing unsupervised training. It works with computers too, as in this article on using Google Brain to build an unsupervised image classifier. http://www.wired.com/2012/…

This Hans Rosling talk from a few years ago shows how most indicators are improving worldwide (e.g. reductions in child mortality, GDP per capita). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h…

The new high speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles is projected to cost $68 billion. Atlanta built a new international airport terminal for $1.4 billion. I'd think …

The Wikipedia article shows that passenger trains use about 35% less energy per passenger/mile than the average car. If fuel efficiency for cars rose to 40 mpg (less than a Prius),…

You can now click in the left column to do the same thing.(Images, Maps, Videos, News, Shopping, etc.)

The Go runtime keeps track of the number of goroutines that are currently executing and ensures that this doesn't go above GOMAXPROCS. As soon as a goroutine enters a system call i…

You can rent 20 AWS on-demand large instances for less money than a junior engineer. If you don't need a lot of machines and AWS saves you any time at all over dedicated hosting, t…