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…makes it smarter and faster. Google's release notes for May 11, 2026, for Google Home state that Gemini will now interact faster with your connected smart home devices. The company has…
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In October 2025, Google finally announced that its smart speaker ecosystem was getting a new member. The Google Home Speaker was given a vague release date of spring 2026, and it would be equipped with Gemini, the AI model from Google, to provide more advanced smart home functionality. Well, if you haven't checked out your calendar in the last few months, it's currently spring 2026. In fact, we're more than halfway through spring 2026, with only one more month to go before it's officially summer 2026. Unfortunately, there has been no news, no release date, and no announcement of the Google Hom
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Microsoft has had a few goes at pulling attention away from Apple, Google, and Samsung with phones and other mobile devices in the past. Unfortunately, whether it’s through the acquisition of Nokia, the creation of Windows Phone, or the release of devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo, it has never quite succeeded. Project Solara isn’t a smartphone operating system, although Microsoft’s platform is based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but an app-less, AI agent-first platform made for both mobile and stationary devices. It’s also, at this stage at least, not aimed at consumers. Microso
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