Amazon Alexa is flexible and compatible with many smart home devices but can be clunky and has no native smartphone support.

Google Home, Google's smart home platform, is relatively static at the moment. While millions of people use it, and there are ...

Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more ...

They were activated when a user said something like: "Alexa, turn on my horoscopes ... remember some of the apps offered for Amazon Echo and Google Home devices were made by third parties.

If you're not sold on Amazon Alexa, check out our guides on how to set up a smart home with Google Assistant and Apple Home. Today's best Amazon Echo Show 15 and Amazon Echo Dot (5th Gen ...

They let you jump straight into those apps, which is useful but not exactly vital when the apps are easy to find on the home ...

The Alexa digital assistant seems like the perfect product for the generative AI era. Getting this technology to actually ...