NEW YORK (AP) -- The high-tech home monitoring device company Nest Labs is disabling a feature on its smoke alarms due to the risk that owners could unintentionally turn off the device with the wave ...

A smoke alarm is one of those devices that you really don’t want to fail when the time comes for it to actually do what it does. With this in mind, Nest has issued a safety notice for users of its ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When a group of former Apple Inc. employees announced that they had created a company called Nest to reinvent the thermostat, Silicon Valley did a double take. You left Apple to work ...

The Google Nest Protect (second generation) brings high-tech prowess to what has historically been a rather low-tech device—the humble smoke and CO alarm. Beyond the many convenience features ...

On Monday, Google bought Nest—a maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors—for the princely sum of $3.2 billion. Much of the response so far has involved 1) sussing out the strategy behind ...

When Nest Protect detects smoke, it gives and early warning called ‘Heads-Up’ before turning to a loud, howling alarm. The unit lights up yellow and speaks with a human voice, letting people in the ...

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