Google Assistant

Google Assistant on Phones Picks Up Smart Display Styled Smart Home Controls

Kellen August 7, 2018

With the arrival of the first Google smart display devices, we got to see a new visual control style when you requested that the Google Assistant adjust smart home settings. That meant a slider to manual set temperature, adjust lighting brightness, or turn...

Google Home Will Now be More Contextually Aware When Turning Lights On/Off in Rooms

Tim August 3, 2018

Thanks to good spotting by users on reddit, then confirmed by Google to Android Police, your Google Home unit will be more contextually aware when turning on and off the lights moving forward. To explain, after this change, users can simply tell Google Home to...

Sonos May Finally Get Google Assistant for a Holiday Push

Kellen August 3, 2018

Sonos speakers are pretty awesome speakers. While the early models lacked the smarts of an Amazon Echo or Google Home, they were some of the first in the industry to do multi-room audio and support a variety of music services. Some newer Sonos models now have...

Google Home Scheduled Routines are Now Available

Kellen July 26, 2018

When Google Home picked up routines a few months back, followed by custom routines a couple of months later, it sure added a new level of power to the smart home system. Instead of having to fire off commands 1-by-1 to complete a series of tasks, you could do...

First of the Google Assistant-Powered Smart Displays Arrives This Week From Lenovo

Kellen July 26, 2018

Back at CES, Google and its partners introduced a new kind of home assistant speaker called smart display. As the name suggests, this was a device that featured the smarts of a Google Home, but was upgraded with a display to hopefully provide you with a more...

Google Now is Back! Well, Sort of in Google Assistant’s New Visual Snapshot

Kellen July 17, 2018

Google Now was easily one of the best features I think that Google has ever released on Android. Its awareness of your day made commutes, flight status checks, and sports score updates more convenient. Of course, it has long-been killed (or buried away) in...

Check Out the Sweet New, Colorful UX for Google Assistant Voices

Kellen July 10, 2018

When Google first rolled out the 6 new voices to Google Assistant after Google I/O, the UX that came with it wasn't exactly the prettiest. Because we love pretty colors and animations, Google says that it's updating that voice picker and sent us a preview of...

Google Says We’re Still a Long Way From Duplex, AI-Powered Robot Calls

Tim June 27, 2018

At this year's Google I/O, Google showcased Duplex, an AI-powered program that users will access through Google Assistant to book reservations for various things over the phone. You simply give Google Assistant a place and time you want booked, then your...