Smart homes work better without Big Tech in the loop.

Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the ...

Google Assistant was supposed to be Google’s future. The voice assistant was an early attempt at ambient computing that gave customers a one-on-one relationship with all of the company’s products.

This time last year, I was about to move into a new house, and I made the decision to say goodbye to Google Assistant and hello to Amazon Alexa for all my smart home duties. Now, almost a year later, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AI has made virtual assistants a big deal again. So far, it looks like ChatGPT, Siri, Alexa, and the rest are all ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With the powers of context and conversation, Siri and Alexa could one day be totally amazing instead of vaguely ...