The Google Home Mini sounds better and looks better than the Echo Dot -- but Google needs to innovate if it wants to catch Alexa. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based ...

David Priest is an award-winning writer and editor who formerly covered home security for CNET. Amazon's Echo Dot is impressive as ever. Its 1.6-inch speaker is half an inch larger than the previous ...

Gaurav Shukla is a technology journalist with over a decade of experience reporting and writing about consumer technology. His work has appeared in BGR, How-To Geek, XDA Developers, and NDTV Gadgets ...

Amazon is offering the Kasa Smart Plug Mini with Energy Monitoring for only $12.99. That's a hefty 35% price drop from its $20 MSRP. This is also lower than what we saw on Black Friday, barring deals ...

There's a pretty good chance you unwrapped a new voice assistant, like an Amazon Alexa- or Google Assistant-enabled device, over the holiday. Devices like the Echo and Nest are incredibly powerful and ...

Saying the wake work for Alexa or Google Assistant over and over in a single conversation gets old fast (“Hey Google, turn the volume down; hey Google, turn the volume down again”), but it’s easy to ...