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As part of Works with Nest (WWN) shutting down next week, Google says it will stop supporting the “legacy Nest skills for Alexa.” To avoid any control disruption, owners need to migrate from Nest to ...
Personal assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Nest products are popular every year. There are millions upon millions of these devices living in homes across the country. Alexa is #1 in usage but ...
With the release of the second-generation Google Nest Hub, Google once again raises the bar for what a smart display can do. The new Nest Hub offers premium features like gesture control and sleep ...
Amazon and Google are often framed as opposing camps in the giant war that is the consumer tech market. The reality, however, for many shoppers who are building their smart homes up is that they're ...
Google will need more than just a Gemini for Home patch to revive its Nest smart speakers and compete with Amazon Echo's ...
Commentary: It might surprise you what your Google Home can't yet do. Here's what we wish it had, and some ways you might be able to work around some of the drawbacks. Dale Smith is a former Associate ...
Google’s Nest Hub (2021) is still going strong even after two years. It also supports sleep tracking and several smart home protocols. Amazon Echo Show 8 (2023) carries a price tag of $150, slightly ...
Taking advantage of Amazon’s most recent API update, Google has updated its Google Nest Alexa skill so that newer Google Nest devices can stream live video to Amazon Echo smart displays and to Amazon ...
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – A year ago, we were so impressed with what was then called the Google Home Hub, we called it one of the top 10 best tech products of 2018, with one caveat. We wished it could ...
I love my cute lil’ Nest Thermostat — it makes my home feel like a spaceship. But there’s one thing that’s stopped me from feeling total futuristic vibes: its integration with other voice-activated ...
Following last year’s introduction of revamped Cams and Doorbell, Google is now letting Amazon users control 2021 Nest products with Alexa. This new Google Nest skill for Amazon Alexa supports the ...
We’ve shown you in the past how to make your Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speaker keep listening after an initial voice command, but how do you know for sure when they’ve stopped listening?