Google Assistant comes in first and Cortana finishes last in smart speaker Q&A test The Google Assistant finished tops among the digital brains that power smart speakers in an extensive Q&A test, answering nearly… Read More
Samsung introduces Galaxy Home smart speaker powered by digital assistant Bixby Samsung is making its entry into the competitive smart speaker market with the announcement of Galaxy Home, taking on fellow… Read More
Siri Shortcuts vs. Alexa Skills: How Apple is tapping apps to compete with Amazon’s voice assistant One of Alexa’s biggest competitive advantages is its catalog of more than 40,000 skills, leveraging third-party services to provide additional… Read More
Podcast Geared Up Podcast: HomePod bust and how Xbox’s backward compatibility gamble is still paying off Apple’s HomePod smart speaker is struggling in the competitive smart home market, according to a new report. What led to… Read More
Apple’s HomePod struggling to gain a foothold in competitive smart speaker market, report says Excess inventory of Apple HomePods is piling up at Apple stores, as the smart speaker has struggled to make a… Read More
Podcast Geared Up Podcast: A smart bike, an Alexa giveaway and is Apple cancelling the iPhone X? Rumors abounded this week that Apple is canceling the iPhone X. So are they? Well, not exactly. We explain on… Read More
Podcast Geared Up Podcast: The tech behind Amazon Go, Xbox Game Pass ups the ante, and a chance to win an in-car Alexa device Amazon Go sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons: A fully automated convenience store that tracks what you grab… Read More
Podcast Holiday gadget letdowns: How to cope with the Apple HomePod delay and Amazon Echo Spot sellout We’re excited about a lot of gadgets this gift-giving season, but we were also sad to hear some of them… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana finally gets her own speaker: Hands-on with the $199 Harman Kardon Invoke Alexa has a bunch of them. Siri is getting one. So why not Cortana, too? A new smart speaker from… Read More
Study: Amazon Echo owners love the iPhone, while Google Home keeps it in the Android family Amazon Echo owners are more likely to be iPhone and iPad fans, while owners of the Google Home smart speaker… Read More
Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More
Podcast Geared Up: Apple HomePod, iOS 11 and all the important stuff from WWDC The keynote speech at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference was 2-and-a-half hours long, but they packed a world’s worth of… Read More
Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home Apple today unveiled its own voice-activated smart home speaker, the HomePod. Set to begin shipping in December, the speaker is… Read More
