![]() That’s pretty simple - Google Assistant can already do that - but Weather Sky can give you information about weather anywhere in the U.S. Other public transit actions will help you catch a bus in Dublin, Singapore, and New Zealand.įinally, the Weather Sky action, from the makers of the Dark Sky smartphone app, gives you information based on weather anywhere in the United States. With Departure Mate and Line Status, there are now four different Google Assistant actions to help you ride the London Tube. Getting around London should be super easy now. Just ask when the next BART train is leaving the station near you and it will rattle off a list of trains leaving within the next 30 minutes. San Francisco finally got its own public transportation action with SF Transit. Can’t wait for this action to include descriptions of art periods and styles so I can show off to my friends and talk about the difference between Renaissance and Byzantine art styles.ĭanish Games action will give the latest Euro Jackpot or Danish lottery numbers. Made by Artsy, the Art Genome Project is a collection of more than 1,000 biographies of prominent artists from Raphael to Ai Weiwei. Like Life Stories and the World Air Quality Index, the Artsy action rests on a lush dataset. Warning: This action contains a fair deal of mature content, like the F word. ![]() Not only does the whole house smell like fish, there are countless bright yellow dog turds all over the house and our yard. Drawing from a community of human misery, Life Stories rattles off random and top stories of failures and misfortune in the tradition of FML online, things like: “Today my dog ate a whole case of my son’s paint balls because apparently they are made of a fish byproduct. Life Stories, based on the fairly large database from , may be the funniest action available today. I wonder just how helicopter-y parents will get when an action like this is mixed with a virtual assistant especially made for parents or emerging wearable devices for babies. This time last year, Alexa had a little over 100 skills.Īmong the Google Assistant actions added in recent days is Baby Stats for logging and tracking baby activity like when they eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom. That may seem like a lot, but ecosystems can grow fast. New actions added last week include a beer guide, slang dictionary, and some that draw on Hindu and Christian scripture.Īll of the 118 skills available today have been added since the launch of the Actions on Google platform last December.īy comparison, Alexa has more than 10,000 skills made by third party developers.
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