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Android Wear with Google Home

Google Assistant still lacks any sort of chain of command when using it across multiple devices. And now your watch has it. A big part of the  Android Wear 2.0  update is the inclusion of  Google Assistant . If you've never used it, Google Assistant is like a friendlier version of  Google Now  that can remember things and help you by doing more "stuff" than the original could. It's pretty cool, and even though it's not been around for long we've already seen it get better and smarter. And now, it's on your watch. Assistant is on different devices with different hardware and different abilities. That means you can tell your watch to do things like add milk to your shopping list, tell you the weather or how traffic looks for your evening commute, or even play a movie on your  Chromecast . It can do all those things and will. But Google Assistant acts differently depending on what device it's running on, and there are some things your watch can'...