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Google Assistant to lose features ahead of Bard integration

The search giant announced seventeen new changes for Assistant, which include "under-utilized" features.

Most of these features appear to be voice-based, that is, the ability to use your voice to instruct the Assistant to perform tasks, notes Google in the accompanying blog post. This means that users won't be able to do notable actions like "send a message" by hitting the microphone icon in the search bar. For the past four years, he's been writing about consumer technology, primarily involving smartphones, laptops, and every other gizmo connected to the Internet.

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