Gemini is finally available on Wear OS smartwatches. Was it worth the wait? I tested the updated assistant to find out.

So, with ESPHome and the ReSpeaker Lite, you can build your own home voice assistant with additional features over the Home ...

Last week, Google Assistant users reported that the voice assistant was bordering on broken. Those complaints across Reddit ...

Topping 500 million active users, Google Assistant is perhaps the most popular virtual assistant out there. While Google has added dozens of unique capabilities during the past few years, many are ...

Fossil is one of the most popular names in Google-powered smartwatches, though. Support here ensures that many more wearable owners can use Assistant and avoid tapping a minuscule screen.

Google Assistant ties in tightly with Chrome OS as a whole: You can use the Assistant to turn wifi on and off, turn Bluetooth on and off, and to adjust the display brightness and system volume.

Google Assistant's version of "deeply committed" has so far involved stopping all hardware releases, with the last Assistant device launching 2.5 years ago in March 2021.

Google announced Assistant Shortcuts with Android 11 in late 2020, but at Google I/O in 2021 the company opened the floodgates. Allowing you to do all sorts of shortcuts with the Assistant.

Google Assistant and Perplexity Assistant have almost similar capabilities except for one or two outliers like the capability to use the camera and explain the picture, send WhatsApp messages, etc.

The Google assistant demonstrations I saw were compelling, even if they didn’t go beyond what I’ve seen Google do before taking place in a new, conversational interface.