Alongside a slew of Echo devices, Amazon also introduced a new smart home interface today. It's called the Alexa Home Map, ...

What’s happened? Google has announced Gemini for Home, a way to integrate all the power of Gemini AI with your smart home setup. The company says the move makes it “both more powerful and easier to ...

Google Home, Alexa, and HomeKit are the most common options when building smart home setups, and for good reason. Their plug-and-play nature, low reliance on local systems, and cheap maintenance costs ...

Voice assistants are a path to efficiency, accessibility, and quick access to information—but first, you have to choose the right one for your household. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about ...

The Gemini mobile app on Android now includes a Google Home extension, allowing users to control smart devices with Google's generative AI. Advanced AI models are increasingly being applied to smart ...

The Amazon Alexa app is getting a long-awaited redesign, and the new look is nearly identical to the Google Home app. In a post today, Amazon has officially revealed the new Alexa app for Android and ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

OPINION: There was a point in my smart home journey where I kitted my home out with Google Nest Home smart speakers and smart displays exclusively. For a short period, Google Home ruled with some ...

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...

All smart speakers nail the basics like timers, weather forecasts, music, and voice commands, but the differences show up once a real setup starts to form across multiple rooms. Amazon Alexa and ...