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As anyone who has seriously built up a household around Google Home can attest to, the service can feel like it’s constantly in a state of flux. New fixes are arriving all the time, and today Google just shared word of a big wave of updates arriving for the company’s hardware. But that’s just the…

To round off the month of September, Google rolled out a feature-packed update for Google Home and its Gemini integration, improving the AI assistant’s ability to hear you in noisy rooms, making it respond faster, improving multilingual conversation reliability, and more. The tech giant is following that up with the first Google Home update for…

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If we curated a list of all the Google Home issues we keep running into, it would be pretty lengthy. In the past month alone, we’ve reported an alarm routines and smart lights bug, along with a strange bug where connected devices refused to answer simple questions. Now, some users are experiencing a flurry of errors in the…

Last October, the Google Home platform received a significant upgrade with Gemini in copious amounts. One of the key new functionalities is Ask Home, which lets users talk to the app using natural language queries, and Google is even working on the ability to include media to make searches even better. While that hasn’t rolled…

Smart home owners will soon be able to control their devices connected to Google Homets Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Google Home ecosystem, which will allow any AI agent that supports MCP — like Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity — to securely work with their smart home devices and access their…

Lenovo’s little bedside clocks have spent years quietly doing the basics well: waking people up, answering questions, controlling smart-home devices, and showing the weather at a glance. That usefulness has survived Google’s messy transition from Assistant to Gemini, but earlier this year, owners of the standard Smart Clock lost convenient touchscreen controls for their smart…

A good smart home demands openness: With as many different devices as you’ll need to really get every last corner of your home automated, it’s critical that they all play nicely with each other. For Google Home, part of that means not arbitrarily setting up platform boundaries, and Google’s smart home solution is open for…