Google’s Nest Protect is being discontinued, as is the Nest x Yale Smart Door Lock, as part of a move to build a platform “that all device makers and developers can use,” the company told me in a ...

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Google has discontinued its smart smoke alarm and partnered with First Alert on a new $129 detector that will work with current Nest Protect alarms. Google has discontinued its smart smoke alarm and ...

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 ...

A study by The National Fire Protection Agency found that of “smoke alarms that failed to activate during home fires, 73% of them had dead, missing, or disconnected batteries.” The reasoning behind ...

Google acquired Nest in 2014 for a whopping $3.4 billion but seems increasingly uninterested in making smart home hardware. The company has just announced two of its home gadgets will be discontinued, ...

Google introduced the first-gen Nest Protect smart home accessory in 2013. The company released the second-gen model in 2015, which it has just discontinued. If you like Google’s smart home ecosystem, ...