Lighting is an essential part of your smart home. With the proper equipment, you can dim the lights, change their color, and creating schedules using an app on your phone. In many cases, you can perform the same functions using voice commands through Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Our Govee LED Strip Lights review covers […]
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Opinion post by Andrew Grush We’ve known for a while Google planned to rebrand Nest, but at Google I/O 2019 it officially happened. Initially many believed Google might end up rebranding Nest products with the Google Home moniker. It turns out the opposite is true. Google’s smart devices will now fall under the new Google […]
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Ahead of National Tell A Story Day (which is a thing, apparently), Google is rolling out a new feature to Google Assistant-powered smartphones: Tell Me A Story. Truth be told, this feature isn’t actually new, as it’s been available on Google Home devices since 2017. However, the feature now works on Android and iOS smartphones […]
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The music streaming battle is definitely heating up. While Spotify and Apple Music dominate the market, Google and Amazon are also in the market and they are now trying to capture a bigger pie of the market by using the popularity of their smart speakers. Both Google and Amazon have announced free tier of their […]
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Google announced today on the YouTube blog that anyone with a Google Home or Google Assistant-powered speaker can now listen to ad-free music from YouTube Music. Google notes that you can’t pick and choose which songs or albums you want to listen to — you can only listen to pre-populated playlists. That said, you still have […]
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