Then, on Wednesday, Google announced a huge overhaul of its smart home efforts. The headline is that it’s finally bringing its Gemini AI fully into Google Home with Gemini for Home, a new, smarter LLM ...

Amazon's latest addition to its smart speaker line brings extra smarts, a new sonic architecture, and a new look. It's not ...

The fresh slate of smart home hardware from Google includes the Nest Cam Indoor (3rd gen), Nest Cam Outdoor (2nd gen), and Nest Doorbell (3rd gen). Additionally, in partnership with Walmart, Google is ...

Generative AI is hitting your smart speakers and displays, reigniting the rivalry between Amazon and Google in the smart home arena. Here's how their next-gen voice assistants stack up. I’m PCMag’s ...

The new AI-powered capabilities primarily focus on a smart home assistant that can understand and use natural language, as well as comprehend, generate, and summarize descriptions of events within and ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google introduced a range of new Nest-branded hardware on Wednesday, just a day after Amazon.com Inc. held its own product showcase, as both companies vie to more deeply integrate ...

Home automation is one of those things that's both much older than people think—the foundations were laid in 1966—and yet still quite controversial in the era of cloud-based everything. Typically, ...

What’s happened? Google has announced Gemini for Home, a way to integrate all the power of Gemini AI with your smart home setup. The company says the move makes it “both more powerful and easier to ...

In true Google fashion, the tech giant is not afraid to terminate hardware devices when it feels they have run their course. In 2024, at least seven products entered Google's graveyard, including the ...

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Following new announcements this week, the future of Google Home is brighter than ever, and that’s exciting. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted newsletter that ...