A:AnswerI have the regular Google Home, and the mini. The Mini does have a mic as well. It has to hear you when you say "HEY GOOGLE". As far as I know, the main difference is that the Google Home has more speakers than the mini and has a touch control on top that you can use to activate it or control volume.
A:AnswerMy best guess is that the closest state to North Carolina... is... um, I'm pretty sure... that it borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
A:AnswerDo you have your SSN, bank account, or passwords saved to a file? As a Network and Cybersecurity Engineer, my advice is DON'T DO THAT! Memorize your passwords instead of letting your Internet browser save them for you.
You can avoid this concern by hiring a local technician to help you at your home where you look over their shoulder the whole time.
A:AnswerIn this version, no. But rumor is with the next version of Google home, they will integrate wifi capabilities so it can act as an access point.
A:AnswerObviously the product was researched and developed by Google engineers. The Google Homes brains comes via the Google Assistant which was announced in 2016. That being said, the Google Assistant was derived from Google Now which was launched in Android 4.1 in 2012. If your asking if Google created the Google Home based on another competitors design? In terms of hardware design I'm sure they took ques from competitors. However, the brains of the Google Home have been around for years.
