Your Amazon Echo and your Nest Learning Thermostat can keep talking to each other in perpetuity. Back in May, Google announced its smart home branch was merging with Nest to form a single entity ...

Earlier this year, Google announced that its line of Nest smart home devices would be folded into its “helpful home” initiative. A side effect of this move is IFTTT fans would no longer be able to ...

True to its word, Google is starting to migrate Nest accounts over to Google accounts. While that’s a positive change in some ways, IFTTT is warning Nest users that Google account migration will break ...

Google’s goal of making a “helpful home” rather than a “smart home” seems to be hitting a few bumps along the road to success. Nest owners are finally being asked to merge their Nest and Google ...

Google says it’s moving Nest devices over to a unified Google ecosystem for the sake of simplicity. But simple can be complicated, as is certainly the case here. In May, after user pushback, the ...

If you’re a Nest user who doesn’t already use two-factor authentication on your account, Google is about to force you to. But that’s a good thing. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA for short, is a ...