Google copped to making a mistake Thursday by not disclosing a microphone component present in its Nest Guard devices, an enhancement to the Nest Secure suite. No Reports of Actual Consumers Bothered ...

You can turn your microphone on and off in a Google Hangouts call by giving the app permission to access your device's microphone. If your microphone doesn't seem to be working, make sure that it's ...

Google said it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system. The announcement on Wednesday is the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry's leading ...

Google said there’s absolutely, positively nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said ...

It appears no one realized Google’s Nest Guard home security device has a built-in microphone. In a blog post earlier this month, the company announced Google Assistant would roll out to Nest Guard so ...

Google conceded today that it was an "error" to keep a microphone covertly installed in its Nest Guard device a secret from users since its late 2017 release. The California-based technology giant ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In early February, Google announced that its home security and alarm system Nest Secure would be getting an update. Users, the company said, could ...

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In announcing that Assistant would lose 17 “underutilized” features, Google also said the Pixel Launcher microphone shortcut would be removed. Google is now rolling out this deprecation. The ...

People who use Google's home security device, Nest Guard, got some surprising news earlier this month when the company announced that the device could now be used as a smart assistant. That was ...