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WHY YOUR NEXT SCREEN COULD BE YOUR SMARTEST

SCREENS ARE A fact of life. You have one in your pocket, you probably use one at work, and you almost certainly have at least one of them at home in your living room. But the major tech titans are betting there’s room for at least one more screen in your life courtesy of a new category of gadgets called Smart Displays.

Smart Displays are a natural evolution of the Smart Speaker segment popularised by the Amazon Echo and Google Home. They’re more or less the same type of device, enabling you to leverage the powerful AI voice assistant platforms of Google or Amazon, only with a screen attached that adds visual information.

The extension makes sense. Certain types of content are

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