The first step toward building a smart home is deciding which smart home platform to use. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are two of the best on the market, offering support for hundreds of third-party ...

If you have a Google Assistant-enabled device, like the Google Nest Mini or the Google Nest Hub Max, chances are you already know how to ask it to turn on the lights, set an alarm and call your ...

If you have yet to wade into the smart home world, or if you're simply considering the best voice assistant and speaker combination to add to your space, you're probably looking at an Amazon Alexa vs.

A Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa smart speaker device is a popular gift each holiday season. There’s a lot these assistants can do for you around your home, but you have to know what they can do in ...

Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at CNET. So, how do I love thee, Google Home? Let me count the ways. Here are the top 5 features that have me smitten with Google Home. When ...

The biggest tech innovation so far this year is the ChatGPT sensation, a chatbot that might threaten Google's dominance of online search. Maybe that's why Google is in such a hurry to show the world ...

Shopping on Amazon got easier in recent years thanks to the advent of voice purchasing with Alexa. But not everyone uses Alexa or owns an Amazon Echo device. If you're a Google loyalist and you've ...

We’ve shown you in the past how to make your Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speaker keep listening after an initial voice command, but how do you know for sure when they’ve stopped listening?

Google’s smartest, Alexa is most impactful, and Siri is a bit of an ugly stepchild. At least, according to one recent study on the top AI-driven voice assistants by VoiceBot, which suggests that ...