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Apple is making its own version of the Amazon echo smart speaker and a new report from Bloomberg says Apple has begun testing it in the homes of Apple engineers what makes Apple's voice-activated speaker different is that it's said to have cameras with facial recognition that can detect your emotions so that means soon Siri will know if you're not smiling oh goody I always wanted artificial intelligence to read my feelings and see everything I do in my home back in May CNET was first to report that Apple Smart speaker hub would have a facial scanning camera and Bloomberg's report corroborates that reportedly Apple is working on expanding series role for the speaker so the assistant can read off things like emails text messages and tweets as for the cameras well bloomberg reports it's only in some models being tested so it is possible it may not make the cut Google's answer to this is called Google home it's gonna go on sale later this year we're expecting to get more details about its launch at an event on October 4th meanwhile Amazon just keeps making more echoes this month the echo with the personal assistant Alexa made its way to Europe and now it comes in black and white the smaller echo dot also now comes in both colors and it dropped its price to $50 in the US that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash you