As a smart home fanatic, I’ve bought a ton of IoT paraphernalia over the last couple of months. Heck, I’ve repurposed old PC components like webcams and microphones into my smart home ecosystem, and ...

As smart home technology has progressed over the last five years, the interconnectedness of devices has been the central draw. The ability to tie your household lights to your front door, or to ...

Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration ...

Google Assistant routines can be extremely helpful throughout your day, though sometimes, those routines can slip through the cracks and you find that one is starting without any interaction with your ...

Google Home devices have long let users place phone calls with just their voice. An upcoming Assistant change will restrict that calling capability to numbers saved in your Google Contacts. Over the ...

Heather is a commerce writer with Android Police. She has been a full-time writer since graduation from SAIT Polytechnic in 2018. She is an experienced article writer working for many brands over the ...

Will Android Go phones soon have the option to move to Google Gemini? Teardown reveals plans to deprecate Assistant Go.

Google's expanded voice features aim to make Assistant more useful to consumers, a key goal as voice commerce and the market for smart home appliances swell. Features like Scheduled Actions, text ...

As the popularity of Amazon Alexa and other voice assistants grows, so too does the number of ways those assistants both do and can intrude on users’ privacy. Examples include hacks that use lasers to ...

Google Assistant is one of the best ways to control and customize your smart home devices. On a near-daily basis, new developers are incorporating the popular voice assistant into everything from ...