Neowin News Feed for: Thermostat

Google Nest Thermostat says goodbye to Europe, older models discontinued

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:38:01 +0000

Google is dropping support for three more Nest smart home devices that were launched more than a decade ago. Read more...

Google launches new Nest Learning Thermostat with AI-powered energy savings

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:30:01 +0000

Google announced the new Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) and the redesigned Nest Temperature Sensor (2nd gen). The thermostat has a sleek design, a larger display, and uses AI to optimize energy. Read more...

New $129 Nest Thermostat with gesture controls launching soon

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:56:01 +0000

Google is working on its cheapest Thermostat yet, the $129 Nest Thermostat which will feature gesture controls presumably using Project Soli. The new thermostat will go on sale in the coming weeks. Read more...

Nest and Google Hardware will work together in future

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:54:01 +0000

Alphabet's Nest, the company that focuses on the smart home, will merge with Google Hardware. The move will allow the two parts of Alphabet to work more integrally than they already do. Read more...

Microsoft enters the smart home market with a slick Cortana-based thermostat

George Karmpoulonis — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:38:01 +0000

Microsoft partners up with Johnson Controls in the hopes of competing in the smart home market. The result is a modern and beautiful GLAS thermostat that you can control through Cortana. Read more...

Ransomware can now infect your smart thermostat

Justin Luna — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 07:26:01 +0000

While ransomware has been famous for infecting a lot of PCs, it has also shown no mercy on mobile devices. And with this, two hackers demonstrated that it can also infect 'smart' thermostats. Read more...

Hands-on: First impressions of Nest's new 3rd generation "Learning" Thermostat

Camden Krupala — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:36:01 +0000

Nest announced an updated version of its learning thermostat earlier this week, and it was officially released just yesterday. We picked one up to check out all the new features and additions. Read more...

Nest announces third generation Learning Thermostat with a larger high resolution display

Camden Krupala — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:12:01 +0000

Nest has introduced a new version of its popular "learning" thermostat with a larger, sharper screen, more customization options, more temperature sensors, and a cool new feature call Farsight. Read more...

Nest Learning Thermostat: The Next Generation, review

Byron Hinson — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:10:01 +0000

The Nest may have been released for some time in America, but it has only recently released the UK in its 2nd generation design. We check it out and see if all of the hype was really worth it. Read more...

Google will soon start extracting data from Nest thermostats

Brad Sams — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:01:29 +0000

In a new interview, the co-founder of Nest has stated that they will soon begin sharing data with Google, which may be a cause for concern for those who do not like what Google does with its data. Read more...

TechSpot: Nest Learning Thermostat Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:40:58 +0000

I've been using the Nest for nearly two months now and without jumping right to the conclusion, I can say it is an excellent and well-rounded product in terms of hardware as well as software. Read more...