I finally tried Google Home’s new Gemini upgrade and it feels like talking to a completely different assistant

For nearly a decade, using smart home devices, including those from Google, has meant entering into a psychological pact: you must learn to speak like a machine. We’ve all stood under a kitchen fixture or in front of a bedroom display, choosing words carefully. You couldn’t just ask for what you wanted; you had to express it exactly so that the system wouldn’t fail. If you faltered, used a compound sentence, or missed the exact hardware name…