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What will 2021 bring?

A friend gave my 10-year-old grandson a little round grey object as a birthday present recently, and I just could not figure out what it was, or why he was so much more excited about it than the new swimming trunks decorated with huge and colourful toucans that I gave him.

It turned out to be a mini smart speaker, or more precisely, an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker, apparently designed to control the home by voice commands, leaving your hands free

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