Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

An AI overhaul makes Alexa+ a much better digital assistant and smart home control center I tried Alexa+ on my first-generation Amazon Echo Show 15, which received a major software refresh in addition ...

Look, I'm an Apple guy through and through. I've had an iPhone for nearly 10 years. I write on a MacBook, my iPad lives on the couch, and yeah, I wear an Apple Watch daily. HomeKit should've been the ...

When you set up a smart bulb in a lamp, you get to name that lamp, so Alexa will know which lamp you are asking her to turn on. In my living room, I’ve set up lamps called table lamp and floor lamp.

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 than ...

When Amazon first released the Echo with its voice assistant Alexa, many consumers thought “Yeah, this is cool, but do I really need this?” While consumers can connect to their Echo via bluetooth, add ...

Smart home hubs were once at the forefront of connected home technology, but nowadays, they're not really that necessary in ...

Amazon's Fire TV line is one of its most popular products, and as you might expect, it also includes Alexa. What sort of cool things can you do with it?

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been around for over a decade now. But over the past few years, it’s felt like Amazon was neglecting its digital assistant. In my own home, I found it buggier and ...