Google is adding over 50 games, activities, and stories to Google Assistant on your phone and Google Home. It’s making an effort to help you keep your kids entertained without looking at a screen with ...

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Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly. Google is trying to address those worries by both ...

Google Assistant, a well-known virtual assistant program, has recently introduced new features that aim to streamline parental controls, add child-friendly voices, and include a kids' dictionary.

Making Google Assistant more kid-friendly isn’t just about restrictions, Google has also developed four new “kid-friendly voices” to lend some diversity to its voice assistant. “We're really excited ...

Following the recent introduction of parent-controlled watchlists on Google TV and the revamp of its parental control app Family Link, Google today announced it’s also now bringing parental controls ...

I've spent days now, walking the show floors at , listening to pitches from baby- and kid-tech developers, and writing up analyses on all of it. I'm a smart-home reporter, so I knew coming into CES ...

The battle of the smart speakers and home assistants is in full swing. And both Amazon and Google think that gaming and fun will help provide a competitive edge. Amazon introduced Echo Buttons, which ...

Kids adore their new robot siblings. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to ...

Virtual assistants, like Siri and Alexa, provide numerous benefits to their users. However, a number of experts have begun to voice concerns about the potential effects these artificially intelligent ...

Kids don't quite have the diction that adults do, which can make it hard even for us humans to understand them. Google knows this and has tweaked Assistant and Home to better pick up what your ...