Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app
and the new Google Home Speaker ✨ Gemini for Home, so you can talk and collaborate more naturally with your [image] @madebygoogle : Gemini magic ✨ is coming to your #NestMini, #NestAudio & #NestHub. W...
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems
The company is also pulling Nest thermostats out of Europe entirely, citing “unique” heating challenges.
Google says Nest hubs, Chromecasts, Google TV devices on Android 14, and more can now control Matter devices locally, and opens its Home APIs to all developers
One of the key changes Matter is bringing to the smart home is a standardized way to enable local control of smart devices.
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
code-named B589 — for release around the middle of next year. That accessory has now progressed in manufacturing tests, and Apple is getting ready to bring it to market. I'm told the new version wil...
Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective
the cadences, interleaving banter and narrative threads all of it is crraaazy [video] Deedy / @deedydas : NotebookLM may be Google's non-copycat product with organic traction in 15+ years with ~1M mon...
Google Ventures CEO David Krane about the firm's first 15 years, operating independently from Alphabet, early investments in Nest and Uber, generative AI, more
One of the first things David Krane and I do is look at some weird sculptures. — Walking through Google's Mountain View …
Google unveils Gemini-based features for Google Home, coming later in 2024: descriptive captions for Nest camera videos, a smarter Assistant for Nest, and more
here's how Joe Maring / Digital Trends : Google showed me its AI future for Google Home, and it blew me away
Google reorganizes its Devices & Services teams responsible for Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google
Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware.
Google reaches a $27M settlement with employees who accused the company of unfair labor practices in a 2016 lawsuit stemming from Nest terminating an employee
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After a US judge invalidates Sonos' patents, Google brings back support for multiple Speaker Groups across Nest speakers, Nest displays, and Chromecast devices
Just last month, Google was forced to limit Nest and Home devices to one Speaker Group in response to the Sonos lawsuit.