At CES 2023, Acer unveiled the Halo Swing, a new portable outdoor-ready smart speaker powered by the Google Assistant. At home, Google Assistant speakers make it all too easy to keep the good times — ...

After years of fierce brawling, Google Assistant and Alexa are finally playing nicely together. Harman today announced new additions to its JBL Authentics speaker lineup that integrate both Google ...

Smart speakers made by Amazon, Apple, and Google also double as powerful and future-proof Matter smart home hubs and Thread border routers. Support for these protocols ensures the speakers can ...

Alexa or Google Assistant? That’s the question that smart speaker users have long had to answer about which voice assistant they could install on their devices. But with JBL’s latest smart speakers, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After JBL announced its new lineup of Authentics speakers at IFA 2023, we put the two built-in voice assistants ...

Previous reports suggested that Gemini is completely going to replace Google Assistant, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Google Assistant is here to stay, thanks to the new powers it has received ...

While Gemini is the future on phones, Google Assistant will remain on smart displays and speakers thanks to Gemini updates meant to improve the experience at home. The AI focus with Gemini this past ...

Building your own smart devices can be a lot of fun, but as your projects scale in complexity, so can the parts required. I've wanted to build my own voice assistant for quite a long time now, after ...

Alexa, show me a real smart home system.

Commentary: Google's AI-powered Assistant could be a fantastic addition to Nest speakers, but none of I/O's Gemini announcements included the speakers. Mike Sorrentino Senior Editor Mike Sorrentino is ...