Dust off your old Nest speaker! Reconnect it to your Wi-Fi and enjoy hands-free help, music, and more. Learn how to ...

Home Assistant is super versatile but not all smart devices work with the open-source smart home platform. I've spent the ...

Google designed the Home Mini and Home to be standalone devices with the Google Assistant built in. These gave people a thing to interact with, as well as a gateway to control other devices such as ...

The highly-anticipated HomePod mini 2 could release in 2025, but it doesn't look like that much of an upgrade. The Latest ...

Google is fighting a battle for voice assistant supremacy against Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. The latter duo have the upper hand, but many smart speakers still use Google Assistant, so those are ...

Apple initially introduced the HomePod mini in 2020 alongside the iPhone 12 lineup, and since then, the product has ...

What’s most interesting about the new Google Assistant is that it will be coming to all existing Nest speakers and displays, including the diminutive Nest Mini. Ben has been writing about ...

Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...

The Sonos Era 100 has a lovely design – one that's a lot nicer than the Sonos One and Sonos One SL speakers it replaced. It's ...

Both Amazon and Apple are playing it safe when it comes to allowing generative AI on their respective smart speakers. On the other hand, you can already chat with Google’s Gemini AI on a Nest ...

For those who want a smart speaker device, but not at an exorbitant price, this is the one for you. The Google Nest Mini is the update to the now two-year-old Google Home Mini, and at $79 it packs a ...