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Your Google Home is Getting New Gemini-Powered Features

Tim November 12, 2024 3

The Google Home team announced a whole bunch of new and exciting features for users this week, mostly thanks to the injection of Gemini into the service. For Nest users, Gemini can now view your clips and understand what it's looking at, then provide...

Gemini Users Can Now Control Smart Home Devices

Tim October 31, 2024 9

For those in the Google Home Public Preview, you can now control your smart home devices and compatible accessories with what's described as "natural language" thanks to the updated Google Home extension inside of the Gemini mobile app. This means that to...

Google TV Gets Google Home Panel, AI Wallpapers, New Sports Page

Kellen September 23, 2024 5

To celebrate the launch of the Google TV Streamer this week, Google is pushing out a handful of big features to the Google TV ecosystem. Previously announced AI wallpapers and the Google Home panel will land on all Google TV devices, plus a new Sports page is...

Shown in Teardown, Gemini Finally Getting Smart Home Controls

Tim July 29, 2024 2

Google is being shown to continue its push to improve Gemini by adding newly supported services. This is important because as of right now, Gemini is still unable to do quite a few things that Google Assistant can do, such as control your smart home. Once...

7 New Features are Coming to Android, Your Devices: Google Messages, Home, More

Kellen May 30, 2024 8

Pixel owners know about feature drops, because they are Google's way of continuously adding value to devices. With each big quarterly update, Google tosses out new software ideas onto Pixel phones and tablets to keep things fun and fresh. For those who don't...

Google Working to Take Google Home Offline, Meaning Functionality Even Without Internet

Tim April 1, 2024 10

As it stands, Google Home functionality like turning on a lightbulb, requires an internet connection. This is ultimately due to the command being routed to Google's servers and then beamed back to your home. But what if we could skip the middleman? This is...

Google Home for Web Gets Camera Histories, Custom Clips, and Public Preview

Tim March 13, 2024 3

The Google Home for Web experience as a whole has left a bit to be desired. However, that is changing this week. Announced by Google, Google Home for Web is getting a whole bunch of highly requested features, making it a much more usable web application. The...

12 New Android Features Arrive Through Google Messages, Wear OS, More

Kellen November 30, 2023 9

As we approach the end of the year, Google has another batch of Android features almost all of us can take advantage of, not just Pixel owners. Google does these regularly, like a Pixel Feature Drop, only they are for the broader Android world, whether you own...