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 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 ...

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 ...

Google Assistant has been one of the primary virtual helpers saturating the landscape. Alongside it has long been Amazon Alexa, and now, the company is beating Google to the punch in revamping its ...

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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, ...

Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI), ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Our kids' room has its own routine. When we say, "Alexa, it's bedtime," their sound machine turns on (powered by a smart plug), their bedside lamp switches off, and their smart light strip turns on to ...

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 ...