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hey it's next out with a virgin we're here with the new Google home it's their smart speaker kind of like a competitor to Amazon's echo you can talk to this you can ask it all sorts of questions it also plays music what really powers it on the inside is Google's assistant it's a new smart software assistant similar to Siri Cortana kind of an evolution of Google now simply say a voice command to it and it can do things like tell you the weather tell you how long it's going to take to get somewhere and it can do all sorts of other things like search the web play video through Chrome pass or play music through google play music essentially it works just like how it works on an Android phone you say okay Google what is the weather in Palo Alto right now it's 63 mostly cloudy there it'll be partly cloudy with a forecasted high of 69 and a low of 52 today you can also ask you other questions like directions ok Google how long will it take me to get to 150 skier Street on your way to 150 sphere Street traffic is lighter than usual the route via Bay Street and the Embarcadero the fastest it is 14 minutes by car okay Google who won the Vikings game last night the Minnesota Vikings won twenty four to ten yesterday against the New York giant so pre-orders for Google home start today you can get it for one hundred and twenty nine dollars it's available from the Google Play Store Best Buy Target and Walmart but if you want to get one of the fabric or metal covers you can get those from the Play Store only for more information about Google home and all the other news Google announced today check out the verge calm or subscribe to us on YouTube at youtube.com slash the Birch