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Google has finally added multi-room audio functionality to its video-based Chromecast, Google Home, and Smart Display devices

I really like Google's Smart Display platform, but a recent functional addition really puts it over the top.

Google will soon reveal its own smart display powered by Assistant.

While Google's plans for new Pixel phones and Pixelbook Chromebooks have leaked repeatedly, this one, I think, is new.

Two new reports point to an inevitable conclusion: Google could overtake Amazon in the smart speaker market as soon as this year.

Google launches two new music streaming service for Home and Smart Displays.

Some of Google's hardware is on sale via the Google Store, and the prices match the lowest we've seen yet for this generation of devices.

Google launches a new Google News experience on Assistant devices in the United States.

Amazon's Echo devices may still dominate the smart speaker market, but customers rarely use them to purchase goods from the e-retailer.

Google hasn't officially announced this yet, but it has added the ability to schedule custom routines for its Google Home speakers.

Google this week updated the software for its Chromecast devices to support a new Ambient Mode that displays when no content is being cast.

Google Assistant is getting support for Continued Conversation on the Home, Home Max, and Home Mini speakers.

Anyone interested in smart home technologies will immediately run into a long list of issues. And it's hard to know where to start.

With little fanfare, Google has bumped the number of simultaneous queries and actions its Home smart speakers can handle at once.

A Google-centric blog has discovered evidence that the search giant will finally release its own podcasts app for Android.

Google smart speaker sales are growing over three times faster than those from Amazon, closing the gap in this critical market.

Google announced today that its Google Assistant is now compatible with over 5,000 smart devices, up 1,500 from January.

To date, Google's podcast strategy has amounted to adding podcast support to Google Play Music. That's changing.

Google's "other revenues" business, which includes G Suite, Pixel, Home, and Nest, barely grew-year over-year.

Google now lets users of its Home smart speakers to connect to all Bluetooth speakers without needing a Chromecast.

A credible report explaining how Apple failed to capitalize on being first-to-market with Siri has triggered some fan fiction.

Routines represent the second-generation of the digital assistant era, where we move past simple command/response interactions.

Amazon's $1 billion purchase of smart home security firm Ring is big news, but it could result in a chilling new era of fragmentation.

Google Assistant on smart speakers is getting updated with an improved alarm feature, ability to look up TV schedules, and more.

You could soon be able to use Google Assistant with a custom hotword instead of the annoying Ok Google hotword. Yes, finally.

Ambient computing is the next major wave of personal computing, and smart speakers are how we get there.

Google Assistant now supports over one million actions, which are essentially things the Assistant can do.