After beating Sonos case, Google brings back group speaker controls

Enlarge / The Nest Audio. (credit: Google)

It's unclear how much life is left in the 4-year-old Nest Audio or 8-year-old Google Home speakers, but Google is at least bringing back a feature it stripped away from users after losing a legal case. In 2022, Google lost a patent case brought by Sonos, and rather than pay a licensing fee, Google reached into customer homes and removed the ability to control speaker volume as a group. Some of Sonos' patent wins were thrown out in October 2023...