“It’s 4 a.m. and what the hell is that beeping?!” If you haven’t been rudely awaken by your smoke alarm’s dying battery cries yet, just give it time. For such essential and potentially life-saving ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google has discontinued producing the second-generation Nest Protect connected smoke detector. Existing Nest Protect units will ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. As a part of the Public Preview program for the Google Home app, Google is introducing support for Nest ...

Absent from many of the larger, often effusive, articles about the new Nest Protect smoke detector is the answer to what I think is a pretty big question: What happens when you have to replace the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The high-tech home monitoring device company Nest Labs is disabling a feature on its smoke alarms due to the risk that owners could unintentionally turn off the device with the wave of ...

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 ...

On this side of the pond most if not all ‘smart’ smoke detectors are not available anymore. It’s mostly because legislation now requires them to be locally interlinked so when one sounds they all ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 440,000 Nest Protect smoke alarms. They were recalled because the "Wave" feature, which disables the alarm sound if a person waves at the ...