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How to Factory Reset Your Google Nest (and When You Should)
It’s usually a last resort, but with setup being as easy as it is, sometimes the best course is a hard reset.
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How to Make Sure Your Phone Isn’t Keeping Recordings of Everything You Say
Even the biggest tech companies continue to stumble when it comes to keeping user data protected, and that extends to giving us control over how voice command requests we make to our digital assistants are logged and processed. So we thought it was worth revisiting which key settings you need to know about on Android…
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66 Useful Things to Ask Google Assistant
Google’s voice-activated AI tool — AKA Google Assistant — is getting smarter and more useful with every new update. If it’s been a while since you used it last, you might be surprised by the huge number of tasks it can now help with. Here are 66 useful questions and commands to try today. Over…
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You Should Mute Your Smart Speaker’s Mic More Often
Does your voice assistant often seem a little too eager to chime in? A recent study by Ruhr University Bochum and Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy found over 1,000 words and phrases that Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant frequently misidentified as activation commands (also known as “wake words”). Here are a few examples,…