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Google wants to talk to you in your living room in your car and even in the middle of your text messages with friends here's a quick summary of the biggest news google announced at its annual io developers conference first up google has created its own smart speaker for the home that answers voice commands it's called google home and although there was no price announced it is coming later this year this smart home hub directly competes with Amazon's echo smart speaker the Google home looks snazzy with no buttons and the design is customizable with different colors but you're putting Google in your living room so will people be concerned with privacy amazon has seen success with its echo since it launched in 2014 and it already works with many outside products and apps but Google could pull ahead by connecting two popular apps like it's calendar it also streams music to multiple speakers with chromecast Audio and it could talk to other nest homes smart devices because don't forget google owns nest google is also working to boost the smarts of it's voice-activated digital assistant google wants to jump into the chat bot game alongside Microsoft and Facebook and to start it's launching a new instant messaging app that puts the search engine inside of your chats it's called ello and if you're not creeped out by having Google watch over your conversations it will suggest what you should say next by trying to recognize what is being talked about there's another app called google duo it's a calling app it lets you see a video feed of who is calling before you pick up it's like a digital peephole before answering the door yeah there's no way that could go wrong or be awkward google also talked about new features coming to android soon there are some small perks like being able to work on too upset once in split-screen mode or reply to text directly from a notification it's code name is Android n and the end it will stand for whatever fans want it to be Google is running a contest for people to suggest what sweet treat name the end will represent could it be nut brittle nectar or Neapolitan ice cream go to android com / and to submit your idea the next version of android also is adding new features to work inside of a car dashboard so your car could run android apps without being connected to a phone and that means we can see Google's assistant inside the car in new updated ways of course virtual reality is a big area of growth so to encourage more VR headsets Google created this software and hardware platform called daydream it's not a physical headset but instead it's a blueprint for other companies to make better VR headsets just like what Google did to encourage others to make Android phones this is the same concept but for VR that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey and you can dive into all of google's news at cnet com