Google confirms Home devices are facing widespread breakdown

What happens when a digital assistant decides it no longer wants to help you? In what is either a case of a sentient digital uprising, or just a software bug that Google is scrambling to fix, owners of a Google Home smart speaker may be waking up today to realize their daily dose of traffic conditions and weather updates are not being delivered to them on a cloud-based silver platter as usual. First brought to attention by a user on the official Google Home Help Forum a few days ago, many users are discovering that every single "OK, Google" request… [Continue Reading]