Google Pixel Tablet with charging speaker dock: From $299 (Original price: $399): ... generate images, do a Google search just by drawing a circle around what you want to search for on the screen, ...

History of Google Assistant smart displays. The field of smart displays began in earnest in 2017 with the Amazon Echo Show, which took the Alexa smart speaker platform and added a touchscreen display.

Those days are over now that Google has expanded its Circle to Search feature. All you have to do is long-press the navigation bar or home button on a supported device, and a new music icon will ...

Image Credits: Google. Circle to Search is something of a misnomer for the new Android capability, as it’s more about interacting with the text or image on the screen to kick off the search ...

In 2022, Google lost a patent case brought by Sonos, and rather than pay a licensing fee, Google reached into customer homes and removed the ability to control speaker volume as a group.

Sonos smacked down Google with five patents in 2022, with the (still valid!) headline patent allowing for the control of multiple speaker volumes at once. Sonos won $32.5 million in damages from ...

Google says in the future, the Speaker Labels feature will consume less power thanks to changes it’s making. Currently, the system works on the CPU block of Google’s Tensor chips.

Circle to Search uses Google’s AI-powered multisearch feature that’s built-in Google Lens and debuted back in 2022. Multisearch supports multimodal search queries so you can use both text and ...