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, ...

Why I'm switching from Google Assistant to Alexa, a white Echo Dot product sitting on a shelf while displaying the time Whether you have multiple smart home devices dotted around your home or just one ...

Alexa and Google Assistant will be available simultaneously on Harman’s new JBL Authentics 200, 300, and 500 smart speakers. (Google, Amazon, and Harman Images; GeekWire Graphic) Amazon and Google are ...

Chris Wedel is a seasoned technology journalist with a rich background writing for top publications like CNET, Android Police, and Digital Trends. His work spans the consumer electronics landscape, ...

Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the ...

Several companies have taken shots at Sonos over the years when it comes to multi-room audio and self-tuning speakers with built-in voice assistants. These devices are a lot more common in 2023 than ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask ...

The Google Assistant and Alexa have long been at odds, and back in the voice assistants' heydays, speaker-makers seemingly weren't allowed to ship both platforms in one product. Later around 2019, the ...

Controlling connected devices such as lights and locks, and doing what you ask it to do, are two very basic requirements of a ...

Apple and Amazon simply won’t be able to compete with Google’s virtual assistant over the next few years. Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is the best-known out there. Amazon dominates the home ...

“Hey Google, Arbab!” I utter these lines to Google Assistant, which automatically takes me to my Twitter DMs with my friend Arbab. That chain of actions happens because I customized one such shortcut ...