Nest has made a few handy updates to its flagship Learning Thermostat, with more information, better auto-scheduling and easier operation. Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness ...

With all of the 10 hottest years on record having come since 1998, it's hard to deny that things are getting hotter. And as the temperature rises, so too does society's power usage. With that in mind, ...

Just three months after Nest co-founder Tony Fadell left the company and new CEO Marwan Fawaz took over, Alphabet’s troubled smart home division, Nest, is apparently experiencing another shakeup.

If you have a Nest Protect smoke detector, you’ll want to make sure that its software is up to date. On Tuesday, Nest officially recalled 440,000 Nest Protect smoke detectors, according to the ...

The inevitability of software bugs has once again bitten Nest thermostat users, with some reporting that they’d woken up to no heat. A Nest support page for update 5.1.3 describes several other ...

When you spend $3.2 billion acquiring a company, it's good form (and business) to do something with the newly acquired asset after the fact. That's how much Google paid to absorb Nest and its line of ...

What happens when your smart home devices receive a bad update that make them not-so-smart anymore? Many Nest owners are finding out the answer to that exact question this week. Users have reported a ...

The software update, which is a 4.3 version, introduces a revised auto-schedule algorithm that aims to save users on their heating and cooling bills by up to 6 percent. The trick lies in its ability ...

A Nest software update in December came with a hidden surprise: a bug that drains the thermostat's battery and ultimately deactivates the device. Users were caught by surprise, and in the case of The ...