Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

<a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/%20google-home-speaker-gemini-launch-date-%20price-specs-features"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260617/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260617/p26#a260617p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / <a href="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/%20google-home-speaker-gemini-launch-date-%20price-specs-features">Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.</p>