{"id":272757,"date":"2018-08-21T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=272757"},"modified":"2018-08-21T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:55:17","slug":"google-testing-good-news-command-for-voice-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/272757-google-testing-good-news-command-for-voice-assistant.html","title":{"rendered":"Google testing good news command for voice assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced an experimental feature for Assistant which may be invoked with the command &#8220;Hey Google, tell me something good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in testing in the US, the Google Assistant will respond with a brief news summary\u00a0about people who are solving problems.<\/p>\n<p>The stories will come from a range of media outlets, curated and summarised by the Solutions Journalism Network.<\/p>\n<p>This is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation which aims to spread the practice of &#8220;solutions journalism&#8221; &#8211; which highlights how problems in the world are solvable and that doing better is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solutions journalism empowers and energises audiences, helping to combat negative news fatigue,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s an important part of a balanced news diet, so we\u2019re exploring how to incorporate more solutions journalism wherever you access Google News.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s an experiment worth trying, because it&#8217;s good info about good work that may bring some good to your day,&#8221; added Google.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lkDYqnnd3g\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/272377-google-executives-confirm-plan-to-bring-search-engine-to-china.html\">Google executives confirm plan to bring search engine to China<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a new experimental feature for Assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":256041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[167,5098,53297],"class_list":["post-272757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-solutions-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272771,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272757\/revisions\/272771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}