For Nest Hub, you will have the Google Assistant, and for the Echo Show 5, you will be assisted by Amazon's Alexa. Google Assistant has a more user-friendly voice assistant interface as it doesn't ...

I've been covering technology for five decades and even I can't handle smart home setups – and that's a big problem.

Google is reportedly thinking of folding its Nest Labs home-automation unit back into the hardware team. Plus, Amazon.com has unveiled Alexa as a business tool for booking conferences and ...