Smart speakers have no idea how to give us news

One of the most exciting things about a new kind of device is how little we know about what it’s good for. At this point, we basically know what a smartphone can do, but the possibilities for a voice-activated, internet-enabled speaker are still more or less untested. There are lots of ideas, some good and some bad, and we’re still figuring out which is which.
A new report from the Reuters Institute suggests that the current round of news apps may be one of the bad ideas. The instit