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 is officially retiring the 2013 Nest Protect smart smoke and CO2 alarm. A similar product from First Alert is launching in its place, with full support in the Google Home app and ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google has discontinued producing the second-generation Nest Protect connected smoke detector. Existing Nest Protect units will ...

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 ...

Google has discontinued the 2nd-gen Nest Protect smart smoke detector. The search titan has posted on the Google Nest Community Blog that it is no longer producing new units of the Nest Protect.

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, ...