When it comes to ads, Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant take very different approaches. Alexa often includes ads and promotional notifications in its interactions, such as suggesting products ...

There are four main smart home platforms: Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s HomeKit, Google Home and Samsung SmartThings and all work with devices such as smart lights and plugs. But which is the best smart ...

Amazon has just unveiled Alexa+, a revolutionary upgrade to its voice assistant that leverages advanced AI to create ...

We’ve been an Amazon Alexa family since the company started releasing products, but Amazon’s announcement of a new and improved Alexa — named Alexa+ — has us questioning how much longer we want to be ...

Whether you have multiple smart home devices dotted around your home or just one hub that takes care of everything, you need to choose a virtual assistant to start creating your own smart home.

Credit: Clarity The home smart hub war is currently split into two camps: Google vs. Amazon. That means it's Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Echo vs. Home. Both systems have their pros and cons ...

Shopping for a smart display for Alexa or Google Home is a bit more challenging than you’d expect, as so many of the products share overlapping specs. And if you’re entirely new to the world ...

Because we don't have enough concerns about our digital privacy these days, it seems Amazon's Alexa and Google Home both gave thumbs up to apps that could be used to eavesdrop on users and phish ...

But Alexa versus Assistant is perhaps the companies ... An early experiment with using the Google Home speaker to advertise Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" resulted in user backlash.

Shopping for a smart display for Alexa or Google Home is a bit more challenging than you’d expect, as so many of the products share overlapping specs. And if you’re entirely new to the world ...