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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a first for everything, including Engadget stories about software updates for thermostats. If we're going to suddenly start getting granular in our coverage of home automation products, though ...

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 ...