Google's Nest Hub Max is an Echo Show killer with facial recognition

More than five years after acquiring Nest, Google is officially bringing all of its smart home products together, merging Google Home and Nest into a single division. 

Their first act: the Google Nest Hub Max, a $229 smart display with a built-in speaker and camera with face recognition abilities that goes on sale later this summer. Google unveiled the latest addition to its smart speaker lineup onstage at its I/O developer conference.

At first glance, the device is essentially a larger version of Google's Home Hub (now called the Nest Hub) with one major difference: it has a camera, the first of Google's smart speakers to include one. It's a significant change for Google, and one made possible by the decision to formally bring the Nest and Google Home teams together. (The camera on the Hub Max was designed by Nest engineers.)  Read more...