Smart home devices are great, until you try mixing a few from different brands, and before you know it, you've got half a dozen apps on your phone for controlling your house. I had a similar problem, ...

Ever tried integrating Amazon’s Alexa devices into Home Assistant? You already know the pain — the integration was always a hit-or-miss gamble requiring Amazon Skills authentication hoops. Home ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...

She's "smarter than she's ever been" and is rolling out next month, Amazon announced today. The best part? Alexa Plus is free for Prime members. Amazon’s Alexa is going to be able to do more than just ...

Voice assistants are a path to efficiency, accessibility, and quick access to information—but first, you have to choose the right one for your household. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about ...

Britta is the former Deputy Editor of Pocket-lint and has covered the consumer technology industry since 2012. Her specialties include smartphones, smart home, speakers, and wearables. While there are ...

It's no secret that the smart home world is dominated by Big Tech, with Amazon's Alexa leading the charge, closely followed by Google Home and Apple HomeKit. These popular automation systems aren't as ...

Voice assistant technologies remain a hot commodity, given the ubiquity of Alexa and Google Home devices (although oddly, not Apple’s Siri to the same extent). The rise of voice assistants has become ...