Google Home is a little device that plugs into the wall and responds to your voice. It can play recorded music or the radio through services like Google Play Music and TuneIn, and it can respond to questions based on the knowledge Google has amassed throughout the 21st century. If you’ve got the correct hardware at home, like a Nest Thermostat, Samsung’s Smartthings, or Philips hue, Google Home can allow you to control some of your home’s functions with your voice.

We’ve had some time to get to know the Google Home and there are a LOT of things to like about it. Its voice recognition is robust and its audio is impressive for being a little tiny speaker. At the same time, when one looks at Google Home through the lens of a smarthome, AI, product, one quickly realizes that the device is not quite where the demonstrations were during the 2016 Google IO developers conference, nor is it a device that delivers on the promise of its advertisements.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, was the U.S. election hacked?, Facebook compromises censorship to get into China, auto regulators want you off your apps, Google AI makes its own language, and much more.

This week, while The Drill Down celebrates U.S. Thanksgiving with our families, Dwayne DeFreitas brings you an interview with Sébastien de la Bastie, Managing Director of Invoxia, creators of the Triby, a voice-controlled speaker with built-in Amazon Alexa Voice Service.

This week’s Drill Down podcast, Silicon Valley responds to the election of Donald Trump, fake news on the internet, Apple wrote the book on product design…and it’s for sale, and much more.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Elon Musk says AI can take down the internet, China enacts cybersecurity… and it’s concerning, how a Donald Trump presidency will affect Silicon Valley, there’s something fishy with Amazon Alexa, and much more.