Google Home expands its mind with more than 30 new services

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If you’ve been itching to talk to your Google Home about current events, travel, and pizza, you’re in luck. The voice-activated speaker just added nearly three dozen new services that will expand its knowledge of what happening in your house and the world.

Earlier this week, Google Home gained the ability to play Netflix shows through a Chromecast and display pictures stored in the Google Photos app, but these new actions are conversational, meaning you can talk to the specific service to get information. Similar to Amazon’s Alexa Skills, if you’re looking for a recipe for tonight’s dinner, the Food Network can walk you through it. Or if you want to know what’s happening in the world, hit up CNBC, The Huffington Post, or The Wall Street Journal.

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