Has your Google smart speaker been giving you the silent treatment lately? Join the club. Over the past several days, owners ...

The problem led to Nest products being unable to answer simple commands, like requests for the time or weather.

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

The Nest Mini is great, but investing in a dedicated speaker without smart features like the Marshall Stanmore III is so much better.

Many Google Home and Nest users have noticed problems with basic commands over the past few days in an relatively widespread issue.

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 ...

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 ...

The Nest Hub and Audio are failing to answer basic questions like "Hey Google, what's the weather?" or "What time is it?" ...

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 ...

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 ...