Heres How to Enable Google Homes Latest Updates. Google Home owners will probably be talking to their living rooms a lot more thanks to an update that lets the voice assistant make phone calls to the U. S. and Canada. Its one of many recent updates granting the smart home device more features and compatibility with other services. Phone Calls Without the Phone. The calls are made over Wi Fi, with numbers pulled either from businesses or your Google Contacts list. Saying the phrase Hey Google, call Dad is enough to get your pop pop on the horn in speakerphone mode, of course. If you share your Google Home with someone else, its voice recognition capabilities will ensure you call the appropriate patriarch. Google may be playing catch up with the Amazon Echo, but Google Home already has a bunch ofRead more Read. The latest travel information, deals, guides and reviews from USA TODAY Travel. Were in St John USVI By Gianna ltdenisgianna at yahoo. Date Thu, 133254 0000 UTC Tortola is right next to us. There are a few bugs Google needs to iron out to make this a truly seamless calling experience, however. For starters, the Google Home call recipient wont see your number unless you have Project Fimore on that below, though the company says itll display the correct number for all users by the end of the year. It also doesnt have 9. Project Fi Users Get Perks. Google Home owners using Googles Project Fi wireless phone service or Google Voice are privy to an extra feature or two compared to customers with a different wireless provider. For one, your phone number is displayed on your call recipients phone, meaning theyll actually see whos calling instead of assuming youre some sort of robocaller. You can also make calls to premium rate numbers and international numbers at their respective rates, a feature unavailable to Google Home owners without the aforementioned accounts. Visit More Settings then select Calls to activate the feature. Finally, Bluetooth Support. In addition to making phone calls, Google Homes software update finally adds Bluetooth audio streaming support, a much requested feature thats been present in Amazons competing Echo voice assistant since its own debut. It also adds free built in streaming music through Spotify Free and Deezer, a perk previously associated exclusively with premium accounts. Granted, you wont be able to play songs on demand with the built in Spotify Free account, but at least youll be able to listen to some ad supported hits and use Google Assistant to select different playlists. Not a streaming music subscriber If you dont use any of Google Homes supported music streaming services, you can connect your Google Home to your phone via Bluetooth and play tunes through the app of your choice. Open the Google Home app, hit the Devices button in the top right corner, then tap the three dots next to your Google Home. From there you can select Paired Bluetooth Devices and add your own. Google Assistant offers simplified voice commands when paired over Bluetooth, like pausing and volume control, and lets you play tunes from places besides Google Play Music or Spotify like Apple Music or Overcast. This week, Google released Google Home, a voice controlled smart appliance, to compete with theRead more Read. Compared to the Amazon Echo, Google Home finally has the basics down, and is set to add even cooler tricks like streaming Home requests to your TV via Chromecast in the near future. MOL Comfort Breaks In Two Off Yemen, Salvage Firm Contracted UPDATE 6 g. Captain. Photo MRCC Mumbai. UPDATE 1. 0 JUL MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk. Update 7 2. 7 JUN Stern Section Sinks PhotosUpdate 6 2. JUN Tugs Reach MOL Comfort, Sister Ship Inspections Commence in Earnest. UPDATE 5 2. 4 JUN Tugs to Reach MOL Comfort. UPDATE 4 Quick update Saturday 2. JUN from MOL. The fore and aft parts are drifting near 1. N 6. 45. 0E and 1. N 6. 24. 8E respectively in an east northeast direction. The weather at the site is still adverse and a patrol boat is expected to arrive at the site around June 2. MOL says some of the containers might be lost or damaged, but majority of the cargo are confirmed to be aboard the fore and aft part. Also two tugboats are heading toward the site and are expected to arrive around June 2. MOL still confirms no large volume of oil leakage. UPDATE 3 Mitsui O. S. K Lines MOL notes today in a statement on their website that a salvage company has been formally contracted to perform the salvage of the two floating halves of the MOL Comfort. They didnt specify which company, but information weve attained seems to point to SMIT. Weve reached out to them this morning to confirm. In addition, crew members from the ill fated vessel arrived in the port of Colombo, Sri Lanka today. Crew members from Mitsui O. Walther Ppk Serial Numbers Dates on this page. S. K. Lines MOL Comfort disembark from a ship in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 2. Image c REUTERSDinuka Liyanawatte. Previous updates On Wednesday, MOL notes that their investigation into the cause of the incident has commenced, in conjunction with the vessels shipbuilder, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. According to a report from a vessel operated by MOL, the two sections of the MOL Comfort are stably floating even under adverse weather. The shipowner also pointed out in their statement this morning that it has not been acknowledged that fire has occurred nor a large volume of oil has leaked. Tugboats have been arranged to tow the two halves of the vessel and a patrol boat has been dispatched from Jebel Ali to monitor the scene until tugs arrive at a later date. The patrol boat is expected to arrive on location June 2. MOL said. At about 1. JST 0. 5 0. 0 local time on June 1. MOL Comfort, laden with containers, are drifting at about 2 knots near 1. N 6. 11. 0E in an east northeast direction. Details of onboard containers of the MOL Comfort that might be lost overboard or damaged during the incident are being confirmed. Image credit MRCC Mumbai. UPDATE 1 1. 8 JUN The MRCC in Mumbai has tweeted saying that the sections are still afloat and are being monitored by the MV Sanderling Ace, another MOL managed vessel. MOL update from Tuesday, June 1. At about noon JST on Tuesday, June 1. N 6. 04. 0E, and the aft part is about 1. At present, both parts of the ship are laden with containers and drifting in an east northeast direction. We are also arranging tugboats to tow both parts. There are no indications as yet of a major oil leak near the site. Details of onboard containers of the MOL Comfort that might be lost overboard or damaged during the incident are being confirmed. Captains unofficial weather routing expert, Fred Pickhardt, has informed us that on Tuesday near the vessel, winds remained from the SW at about force 7 with waves of 5 6 meters. MOL COMFORT AIS TRACKRed circle indicates MOL Comforts position reported on 1. JUN 2. 01. 3 at 2. GMT, as well as its track since approximately Saturday. At the time of this update, the ship was drifting at. Tuesday. Full vessel position report HERE. Satellite AIS data courtesy Port. Vision. Click image for larger. ORIGINAL 1. 7 JUN This photo of the MOL Comfort shows considerable hogging. Image credit IANSMOL Comfort Suffers Broken Back, Sinks Off Yemen Remains Adrift Off Yemen. MOL containership were forced to abandon ship Monday off Yemen after the ship suffered from catastrophic hull failure and reportedly sank broke in two. The MV MOL Comfort, an 8,0. TEU type containership cracked in half about 2. Yemeni coast at about 1. N 6. 0E while enroute from Singapore to Jeddah with a load of 7,0. TEUs. All 2. 6 crew made up 1. Russians, 1 Ukrainian and 1. Filipinos escaped the sinking ship on two life rafts and a lifeboat. According to a report by IANS News, the Indian Coast Guard in Mumbai diverted three vessels in the area to assist. The MV Yantian Express was first to arrive on scene and rescued the survivors. The 2. 00. 8 built MOL Comfort sank a short time later, the report said. Weather at the time was strong winds and seas up to six meters. The ships operator, Mitsui O. S. K. Lines, says that an Emergency Control Headquarters has been established for the incident and MOL is taking company wide measures to settle the matter. The MOL statement said that damage was extensive and that details of the incident were still being confirmed. Image courtesy Twitter user nalam. A Catastrophic Structural Failure. From a naval architecture standpoint, this is a puzzling situation. Ships are designed to handle long period and large waves that crest on the bow and stern and have a trough amidships. This creates a sagging situation that puts extreme tension on the keel and compression at deck level. The opposite, hogging situation occurs when the crest of the wave moves to the center of the ship and the trough of the waves are at bow and stern. The repeat flexing of the ship in these perfectly timed waves is likely what caused the loss of this vessel. In the photo above, a perfect example of hogging is shown, where the bow and the stern are both lying in the troughs of two waves. It should not have happened however. Ships are built to handle this situation and engineering rules are followed to ensure the transverse section modulus of the vessel is sufficient to handle these extreme stresses imposed by nature. There are other possibilities howeverThe loading of the containers on board may have exacerbated the situation. Although the loading of the containers appears even in the photo, the weight distribution of the containers may not have been even. Had heavier containers been loaded on the bow and stern and lighter ones in the center of the ship, the vessel may have been placed in a hogging situation before she even set sail. Its speculation of course to say one way or another, but assuming that she met class requirements, its one possible explanation for what happened. Mike Schuler and Rob Almeida. Extensive Control Of Routing Updates On Hurricane© 2017