It's been a slow erosion, but recent cracks in Google's smart home foundation paint a very grim picture of the future. Reading time 3 minutes When I started using a Google smart speaker six years ago, ...

Google is taking a big step toward making your smart home feel, well, smart, by baking in Gemini AI into the Home APIs that developers use to build their own apps and devices. Announced during Google ...

They're showing up as 'Offline' in the Google Home app regardless of their power status. Google says it's troubleshooting the ...

Once upon a time, Google made smart home announcements and debuted products at a regular clip. The arms race between Google and Amazon for dominance in the voice-controlled smart home was exciting to ...

Google’s first AI assistant has all but disappeared from new smartphones, but it still lives on in smart homes across the country — for a little longer, anyway. Starting this month, Google says it ...

A new Google smart speaker leaked during the Made by Google event, and it’s since been ‘confirmed’ by Android Headlines that it’s real. Details are few and far between, but the Google Home Speaker ...

“Hey Google, set bedroom lamp to 50 percent.” Such stilted voice commands have been the stuff of smart home for years, but with Gemini for Home, Google is promising a smart home you can have an actual ...

The mysterious smart speaker that appeared during Made by Google is a real, unannounced device. The speaker is said to come with Gemini installed. Users will reportedly be able to pair it with a ...