Google's Gemini can now help you create advanced automation scripts in Google Home, but it's still complicated and riddled with errors. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home ...

This is what you get when the smart home is decoupled from commercial interests ...

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 ...

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...

Many smart home devices rely on cloud services and internet access, but there are ways to reduce that dependence while ...

Google's voice assistant is getting phased out in favor of the more chatty Gemini: Here's how that could affect your smart home and Nest products. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types ...

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have ...

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 ...

Google I/O 2026 brought massive Gemini AI upgrades to existing smart speakers, but the promised $99 Google Home device ...

Google hosted its annual I/O developers keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California today, announcing multiple new products and services related to Android, search, messaging, ...

Home Assistant Android update 2026.6.2 beta patches a URI intent-hijacking vulnerability that could let attackers reach ...