{"id":187495,"date":"2025-10-03T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187495\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:57:07","slug":"i-tried-amazon-and-googles-new-smart-home-gadgets-ask-me-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187495\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried Amazon and Google\u2019s new smart home gadgets. Ask me anything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Hi! I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/jennifer-tuohy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy<\/a> (aka Jen), The Verge\u2019s smart home reviewer. I just spent the last week in New York City getting some hands-on time with the new smart displays, smart speakers, smart voice assistants, and smart security cameras launched by Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">I\u2019m hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscriber-only AMA<\/a> on the site today, Friday, October 3rd. Just ask your questions in the comments on this post, and my editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/nathan-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Edwards<\/a>, and I will join you here at 1 PM to answer as many as we can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Then, on Wednesday, Google announced a huge overhaul of its smart home efforts. The headline is that it\u2019s finally bringing its Gemini AI fully into Google Home with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/788102\/gemini-for-home-new-google-assistant-launch-date-price-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini for Home<\/a>, a new, smarter LLM-powered voice assistant for Google Home speakers that replaces Google Assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/787171\/amazon-alexa-plus-hardware-event-smart-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breed of smarter AI<\/a> is finally coming to the smart home. I know you have questions, and I hope I have the answers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi! I\u2019m Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (aka Jen), The Verge\u2019s smart home reviewer. I just spent the last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[971,11222,49,48,195,192,21798,1847,64,61],"class_list":["post-187495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-alexa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-google-assistant","tag-smart-home","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}