Why Google Home has a lot of catching up to do

Amazon is quietly shaping the future of computing. The giant retailer created a popular voice-and cloud-based virtual assistant that’s smart enough to perform certain tasks and provide answers to our queries. Amazon doesn’t do voice better than Apple or Google, but Amazon nonetheless created a tool that made it easier for humans to talk to a machine . Google announced Home , a direct competitor for Amazon’s Echo , and Apple is rumored to introduce a similar device in the near f