The Google Nest Protect (second generation) brings high-tech prowess to what has historically been a rather low-tech device—the humble smoke and CO alarm. Beyond the many convenience features ...

Nest CEO Tony Fadell has sent an open letter to customers as well as a separate letter to resellers halting all sales of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm immediately. In the ...

Nest’s Protect smart smoke and carbon monoxide detector just got a lot smarter. Nest today announced the first major software update for the Protect and its accompanying app, which brings with it a ...

Ever since a startup called Nest Labs unveiled its smart thermostat in 2011 — with high-end industrial design, an elegant touch-screen interface, phone apps and other consumer electronics-style ...

On March 28, Google Nest announced two major changes to its Google Home lineup of smart devices. First, it's going to end sales of its Nest Protect smoke detector, which featured on our list of ...

We’ve all experienced that annoyance: You’re cooking bacon on Sunday morning and the smoke alarm goes off. How convenient would it be to yell, “Bacon!” and have the alarm shut off? We’re not there yet ...

For years, owners of Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector have been asking when their devices would make the leap from the older Nest app to Google Home, and the answer was always the same: one day, ...

The Google-owned Nest Labs has halted sales of its smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, the company announced on its website. In a letter from CEO Tony Fadell to customers, he said the company was ...

"homeowners ... can get a free Nest Protect" Wow, one free? I have 9 smoke detectors/CO detectors in my house (one for each bedroom, two hallways, and two downstairs). One free isn't going to convince ...

Back in 2011, a company called Nest introduced a smarter thermostat, one that tracked heating habits, and had a touchscreen interface, and was WiFi-enabled so you could control it from your phone. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Properly installed smoke detectors are often the first line of defense against a house fire, keeping the homeowner informed and ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This feature doesn’t sound like a big deal — and by all means, it shouldn’t be — but it is a big deal because of ...