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    #153: A Server Farm’s Opinion

    May 31st, 2018 · 73 minutes

    Andy and Flo start off this week wondering what attracts them to certain robot voices, and how that will inform their choices with the Google Home's latest voices update.

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    • Play Store: Carrot Weather

    • NYT: How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

    • NYT: How to Make A.I. That's Good for People

    • 9to5Google: Essential cancels development on second phone

    • Gizmodo: Google Just Turned a Huge Corner in the Smart Speaker Game