While the original Echo and Google Home were relatively popular, it was the introduction of their smaller, more affordable ...

Make sure you know these commands to get help in an emergency by heart. Let’s start with the most popular Amazon’s Echo line ...

Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...

Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers and voice assistant Alexa cannot call 911 for you. They won't reliably report your location and don't offer a callback number, so they don't meet the ...

All the best Amazon Echo speakers are on sale, and you can even get a free smart light to get started on your smart home.

You just need to ask. Smart speakers come with one of three voice assistants built-in — Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Apple's Siri. When you start to build your smart home, you'll need to ...

Amazon Alexa is flexible and compatible with many smart home devices but can be clunky and has no native smartphone support.

The best smart speakers make controlling your smart home devices a piece of cake, with simple voice commands putting you in charge. These speakers are for far more than music, with many including ...

The Privacy Concerns With Smart Speakers . If smart speakers didn't already exist, they would sound like a pretty strange ...

About two years ago, I got a call from my mother. “You know,” she said, “that Alexa is really working out. I was feeling a ...

The Alexa Skills revolution that wasn’t The Amazon Echo graveyard Alexa, thank you for the music Fast-forward to today, and there are over 40 million Echo smart speakers in US households, with Alexa ...