This time last year, I was about to move into a new house, and I made the decision to say goodbye to Google Assistant and hello to Amazon Alexa for all my smart home duties. Now, almost a year later, ...

To say I’m invested in the Google ecosystem would be a major understatement. Web browsing? Chrome. Emails? Gmail. Calendar? Google Calendar. Photos? Google Photos. Notes? Google Keep. Entertainment?

Alexa users can now access specific scenes in Prime Video movies by just describing them. Amazon first teased this functionality earlier this year, and it’s exclusive to Alexa Plus. Initial support is ...

Alexa was one of the pioneering names in the nascent voice assistant segment many years ago. However, its fate was very different from that of Google Assistant. While Google continued to invest ...

Smart home ecosystems such as Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Home have become incredibly popular, as they allow you to control devices from multiple brands from a single app. You don't need to pay to ...

Google Assistant was supposed to be Google’s future. The voice assistant was an early attempt at ambient computing that gave customers a one-on-one relationship with all of the company’s products.

All smart speakers nail the basics like timers, weather forecasts, music, and voice commands, but the differences show up once a real setup starts to form across multiple rooms. Amazon Alexa and ...

Echo Show 11 on a tabletop being operated as a smart home hub. - Amazon All smart speakers nail the basics like timers, weather forecasts, music, and voice commands, but the differences show up once a ...