Google Home Gets Long-awaited Bluetooth Music Streaming Capability
Google has updated one of the biggest missing features for Google Home since its launch – audio streaming via Bluetooth….
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Your Google Home Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Within the U.S. and Canada
The new Google Home feature announced back in May is now released to the company’s smart speaker users. Google’s smart speaker…
Anker’s Eufy Genie Smart Speaker: Amazon Echo Dot Rival Sold on Amazon
Anker, primarily known for its power banks and charging cables, has announced a new smart speaker called Eufy Genie. Anker’s announcement…
Alexa on Amazon Echo is Now Fine-tuned to Your Music Needs
Alexa, the intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon, has had a major upgrade this week. Alexa became popular on the…
Wink Smart Home App Company Now Owned by Will.i.am
Wink, a smart app for your smarter home, is being acquired by i.am+, the “lifestyle technology company” from Flextronics. The…
Facebook Reportedly Working on Modular Hardware, Another Smartphone?
Several companies in the past have tried to create modular smartphones so individual components that become obsolete can be periodically…
Amazon Echo Users in the UK Can Now Order by Voice from Domino’s Pizza
UK users of Amazon Echo smart speakers will now be able to talk to Domino’s Pizza’s own AI ordering assistant…
Roomba Kicks Up Dust Around Privacy Issues for Smart Home Owners
Roomba, a product of iRobot, is a vacuuming robot powered by a full suite of smart sensors to keep your…
Bixby AI Smart Speaker Plans Scrapped for Now, Samsung Cites Competition
Earlier this month, there were speculations on Samsung’s plan to create a smart speaker featuring its Bixby voice assistant and…
Prime Day 2017 Sees 7X Spike in Amazon Echo Sales, Alexa Hits Puberty at 15 (thousand skills)
Amazon just announced that it had sold over seven times the number of Amazon Echo and related devices during Prime Day…
Amazon Alexa Races Past 15,000 Skills this June (US), Google Assistant at 378
If smart speakers – or, more specifically, the AI entities that reside within – were reckoned on the basis of…
New Amazon Echo Competitor from Samsung Under Development: Vega with Bixby
Samsung is next in line for a piece of Amazon Echo’s massive 70 percent market share. Vega, a smart speaker…
No More Apple Pay: New Jailbreak Tweak Unlocks NFC on iOS 10 iPhones
Apple has been using near field communication (NFC) technology on its iPhones from as far back as 2014, when iPhone 6…
Google Assistant 6X Smarter than Amazon Alexa, Why It Matters to Consumers
A new study by 360i, which involved asking both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa a set of 3,000 questions, showed…
Protecting Your Smart Home from Hackers is as Simple as Plug and Play
There was a time when your home’s computers and gadgets could be protected by antivirus software. Just buy a premium…