Smart homes work better without Big Tech in the loop.

The new Google Home Speaker with Gemini is smart and capable, but it fails to stand out much from similar rivals.

The oldest devices in my Google Home ecosystem are pushing a decade old, and Gemini made the hardware worth using again.

Google is rolling out a series of Gemini for Google Home updates designed to improve voice assistant and camera intelligence.

Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant ...

Google's new speaker is a modest update, but the question is whether Gemini is a good smart home assistant.

Arriving six years after Google's last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.

We didn’t get a real update about Gemini on smart speakers and display at I/O 2025 last week, but Google Home recently added a new “Voice assistant experiments” setting for it. Since testing got ...

I have used several smart speakers powered by Google Assistant for quite a while. The first device I picked up was the Nest Mini, which was followed by the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. I have one ...

Google’s first new smart speaker in six years is here and once again leads its competitors—now with paywalled features.

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