Google Reportedly Plans Major Home Mini Speaker Refresh, Will Embrace Nest Branding

Google reportedly working on next-gen Home Mini, dubbed the Nest Mini, with a wall mount, improved speakers, new colors.
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Google Store is Having a Back-to-School Sale

Some of Google’s hardware is on sale via the Google Store, and the prices match the lowest we’ve seen yet for this generation of devices.
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Will a High Volume Strategy Win the Smart Speaker Market? (Premium)

Microsoft’s high volume, low-cost strategy was the winner in the PC market. But will it work with smart speakers too?

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Top 5 Google Stories of 2017 (Premium)

Google had an interesting year of platform advances and hardware mishaps. Here are the top stories from 2017.

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Hacking an AUX Port for a Google Home Mini

Even if you don’t want to add an AUX audio output port to your Google Home Mini, you’ll still want to see a pair of videos from [SnekTek]. After all, you’ll eventually want to open it up, and putting it over some boiling water might not have been your first idea. You can see both videos, below.

However, he did want to add an AUX port. The biggest challenge was finding a place to put the connector. Even after identifying a likely spot, a bolt interfered with the case closing and so he removed it. The one bolt didn’t seem …read more

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