Opinion: why the American welfare state is unsustainable? Nationwide spending on the program is $70 billion annually, 20% of which is wasted on junk food and sugary drinks.

As expected, Apple unveiled an Amazon Echo and Google Home-competitor of sorts with the new HomePod, bringing Siri into the living room for voice commands at home.

After a lot of positive encouragement from colleagues and Twitter followers, I decided to give it a try – as an experiment. Could Google Home change my outlook?