With the Essential, the pretense of a smart display is gone altogether; the LCD screen has been replaced with a basic LED display. It’s really more of a Google-powered speaker with a clock. As a ...

In our advice column, Ask the Strategist, we take your most burning shopping questions and survey friends, call up experts, and draw on our own personal experience to answer them. If you have an ...

If you’ve been wanting to spend less time on your phone, a new alarm clock could help. Setting an alarm at night and waking via your phone first thing in the morning can lead to getting stuck in a ...