Then, on Wednesday, Google announced a huge overhaul of its smart home efforts. The headline is that it’s finally bringing its Gemini AI fully into Google Home with Gemini for Home, a new, smarter LLM ...

The new AI-powered capabilities primarily focus on a smart home assistant that can understand and use natural language, as well as comprehend, generate, and summarize descriptions of events within and ...

What’s happened? Google has announced Gemini for Home, a way to integrate all the power of Gemini AI with your smart home setup. The company says the move makes it “both more powerful and easier to ...

I’ve always liked the Echo Studio for its room-filling audio and the meaty bass that it pushed, but despite this launching in 2019 as a speaker for Dolby Atmos and Hi-Res music (both of which are ...

Amazon's latest addition to its smart speaker line brings extra smarts, a new sonic architecture, and a new look. It's not ...

We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. It wasn’t that long ago that Google Home seemed like the ...

We attended Amazon's February announcement of a massive Alexa AI upgrade with great interest. The new service, called Alexa Plus, promised us conversational AI to set reservations, learn what we like, ...

In this video, I share my experiences with voice assistants and home automation, focusing on Amazon's Alexa. While I have ...

Automakers constantly seek new ways to deliver a connected, personalized, seamless driving experience. One way to do that is to embed communications and entertainment features directly into a vehicle, ...

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Amazon Alexa is already a solid smart assistant, but a few clever tweaks and lesser-known features can take your experience to the next level. Here's how to make the most of it.

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