Home Assistant is one of the best smart home platforms out there. It's even better when you throw your Pixel into the mix.

Smart homes work better without Big Tech in the loop.

Google's new speaker is a modest update, but the question is whether Gemini is a good smart home assistant.

The oldest devices in my Google Home ecosystem are pushing a decade old, and Gemini made the hardware worth using again.

The latest edition of the Google Home Speaker serves a compelling mix of rewarding voice controls, surprisingly punchy audio output, and the most advanced suite of smart home features that you can get ...

Arriving six years after Google's last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.

Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant ...

Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining ...

Google Gemini upgrades Google Home with smarter AI conversations, sports updates, home automation, and faster responses while ...

Latest Google speaker does not necessarily sound any better than its predecessor but it does look more stylish ...

We didn’t get a real update about Gemini on smart speakers and display at I/O 2025 last week, but Google Home recently added a new “Voice assistant experiments” setting for it. Since testing got ...

Google’s first new smart speaker in six years is here and once again leads its competitors—now with paywalled features.