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Google’s Nest Protect is being discontinued, as is the Nest x Yale Smart Door Lock, as part of a move to build a platform “that all device makers and developers can use,” the company told me in a ...

This past March, Google announced that a new Yale-made lock was inbound, with availability now kicking off. The new Smart Lock for Google Home is available for $189, purchasable via Yale directly, ...

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Google introduced the first-gen Nest Protect smart home accessory in 2013. The company released the second-gen model in 2015, which it has just discontinued. If you like Google’s smart home ecosystem, ...