“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nest, the connected-home device maker Google agreed to buy in January, is disabling a feature that allows its Nest Protect smoke and carbon-monoxide alarm to be silenced with a wave of the hand. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is revamping its smart home lineup, ending production on two of its devices in favor of integrations with third-party manufacturers. First, it will sunset the Nest Protect smoke & CO alarms.

Will Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector ever work with the Google Home app? That’s what Nest Protect users are asking themselves following Google’s most recent promise to bring the popular and well ...

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 ...

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 ...