Facebook’s rumored smart speaker would be DOA

If Facebook is planning to make a smart speaker, it should really reconsider.
A report in Digitimes today says that Facebook’s Building 8 research group is developing a smart speaker with a 15-inch touch panel. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of this: Digitimes has a mixed track record on tech rumors; supply chain sources can misidentify projects or describe early tests that don’t make it to market; Facebook doesn’t have a voice assistant yet; and a 15-inch screen on