Samsung is baking Bixby into a speaker to take on Amazon and Google

Following Apple’s announcement of its HomePod last month, Samsung is now the latest tech giant to hop on the smart speaker bandwagon. The Wall Street Journal reports that the South Korean hardware maker is baking its Bixby assistant into a voice-activated device. It’s presently codenamed Vega, and has been in the works for over a year now – and there still isn’t a set launch date. That might be due to the fact that Bixby – which debuted on the Galaxy S8 handset in March – still doesn’t support English and hasn’t arrived in major markets like the US yet.…

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