Android users enrolled in the Google Home Public Preview program can now control smart home devices using natural language commands in the Gemini app. Help Me Create will also be available later this year to US users. It will let users create smart home automation by describing actions in simple language.

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As announced at the end of last month, Gemini’s Google Home Extension is now seeing wider availability this week. Opening Gemini > Extensions in the Gemini for Android and look for “Google Home” and its green “Public Preview” label.

Apple (AAPL) is working on a smart home device to compete with rivals Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOGL). Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources familiar with Apple’s plans, reports that the iPhone maker is developing what will be a wall-mounted home “command center” that will be able to control appliances,

This description sounds a lot like the Google Home Hub, which came out in 2018, or the Echo Show, which is already up to its eighth iteration. If Apple wants to be a serious competitor in this smart home space,