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Now that Nest Hub owners can speak to their display in Spanish – a feature that has long been sought after – Google is shifting its focus to the past. Well, sort of. In the same vein as the new Google Photos Memories widget that you can now place on your Android 12 home screen […]
Chromecast with Google TV has been rumored to receive multi-user profile switching support since June of this year, but all we got instead was Kids Profiles. While these have most certainly been useful to millions of families using Google’s streaming platform, the ability to house separate curated Watchlists and recommendations within the home among the […]
Streaming television offerings have quite literally overtaken the world. We live in the information and collaboration age, and we’re drowning in choice, and the traditional method of being limited to select programming that’s chosen for you is just kind of old school now. Back in February, Google upgraded its Huntsville, Alabama customers to accept a […]
The Soli chip that’s built into the second-generation Nest Hub lets you use Jedi Mind Tricks to control the experience using ‘Motion Sense’. Well, not literally, but holding your hand up to play or pause music and waving to dismiss timers sure feels like using the Force to bend reality to your will, doesn’t it? […]
Google’s Nest Thermostat is a smart device, yes, but over the past few years, the company has done its best to shift the public perception and marketing of this gadget to be more ‘thoughtful’. Using AI and machine learning, it has done a lot to make it more ‘considerate’, so to speak, and take into […]
For those of us just learning Spanish, those who are trying to brush up on their second language, or for those who speak it as their first, Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max now support Spanish in more significant ways. Previously, you could use Google Translate to convert a phrase, but the entire user interface […]
I just took my Pixelbook Go out on the porch to spend a lazy Saturday morning with my family over some Lofi hip hop and coffee, so naturally, I told Assistant to turn off my lights to conserve energy. In addition to doing what I asked via my Nest Mini speaker, my phone jumped to […]
According to a new report by Protocol, Google is in the process of creating or adding native TV channels to Google TV devices like Chromecasts and set-top boxes running the software. These channels will be referred to as ‘F.A.S.T.’ – Free, Ad-Supported, streaming television and come from companies that distribute this type of content. Similar […]
Earlier this year, the Google Home app received a redesigned Wifi section that included more of the old Wifi app’s tricks. Since Google was busy phasing it out in favor o the all-in-one experience for all of the smart tech in your home, this made sense. The ability to prioritize a connection so that it […]
Happy Labor Day! As we celebrate our workplace achievements and overall collaborative success, Google has placed several of its Nest hardware devices on sale for a limited period of time. Over on its own store and even at Best Buy, you can get a hefty discount on several configurations of the new Nest Wifi router […]
Back in June, Lenovo unveiled the next iteration of one of my favorite smart home devices of all time. The Lenovo Smart Clock w/Google Assistant is a great little bedside smart speaker. It’s discrete, attractive, sounds good, and does just about everything you would want an Assistant-enabled device to when located in a more intimate […]
Remember Assistant’s ‘Guacamole’ experiment that we discussed a while back? The ability to skip the “Hey Google” hotword in order to perform simple tasks was first discovered by 9to5Google during their APK Insights of the Search app on Android. At that time, Google stated that they had nothing to announce, but now, a new Insights […]
