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Google moves further into health and wellness monitoring with updated Nest Hub that tracks sleep
Tech giant Google is ramping up its focus on health and wellness by adding sleep tracking to its Nest Hub smart home device. The company announced Tuesday that its second-generation Nest Hub includes a sleep sensing feature that uses radar-based sleep tracking in addition to an algorithm for cough and snore detection. It marks Google’s first foray into the …
Apple’s Giving Up on Its Original HomePod Smart Speaker
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Apple is reportedly discontinuing its original HomePod smart speaker as the company pivots focus to the HomePod mini, its smaller and more affordable baby brother. TechCrunch reported confirmation from Apple on Friday that it’s shelving the HomePod just a few short years after its initial launch. Reviews weren’t kind when …
Suspect sought in Marion Robin’s Nest break in
MARION (WSIL) — Robin’s Nest in Marion is asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who broke into their facility, late Tuesday night. Around 11:45 p.m., security cameras inside the facility captured images of a man, as he climbed through a back window, looked into a refrigerator, and searched other areas of the …
Washington state discovers first ‘murder hornet’ nest in U.S.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Scientists have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees, officials in Washington state said. After weeks of searching, the agency said it found the nest of Asian giant hornets in Blaine, a city north of Seattle …
How to support your adult children without breaking your nest egg
If parents aren’t careful, financially supporting their adult children could harm their retirement — and damage their kids’ own financial development. Of course, living in the time of Covid-19 brings its own set of unique circumstances. Many young adults are reeling from the economic fallout of the pandemic. While the unemployment rate decreased in May, it …
Google slowly starts requiring two-factor authentication for Nest users
Earlier this year, Google revealed that all Nest accounts will require extra sign-in security starting this spring. For those who haven’t enabled phone—based two factor authentication or have migrated to a Google account yet, that means having to verify their identities via email-based authentication every time they log in. Now, the tech giant has announced …
Google outage hits Gmail, Snapchat and Nest | Technology
A brief outage on Google’s Cloud Platform led to failures at Gmail, Snapchat and the smart home company Nest on Wednesday afternoon. The failure, which began at 3.35pm BST, affected a number of tools that Google uses internally and provides to other companies to host web services. At the root was a tool called Cloud …
Google Home app is getting a new event feed for Nest Aware subscribers
Google Home and Nest have been growing together ever since the company started merging the two brands, most evident by the option to move your Nest account over to Google. With this in mind, the company has teased a forthcoming addition to the Home app for Nest Aware subscribers: A Home Feed will show you …
Google announces Nest Wifi, a mesh router system with smart speakers inside
You want working, reliable Wi-Fi in every room of your house. Maybe you’d like every room of your house to properly hear your Google Assistant voice commands, too? Now, Google is about to offer a way to extend both your internet and the range of your voice at once — with the just-announced Nest Wifi …
13 Best Black Friday Deals on Google Devices (2020): Pixel, Nest, Stadia
The Pixel 4A is a good deal if you want a solid phone, don’t care (yet) about 5G network compatibility, and aren’t in need of the Pixel 5’s higher-end specs. In short, it’s all the phone you really need, and that’s why WIRED’s smartphone reviewer extraordinaire Julian Chokkattu gave it a coveted 9/10 in his …