• Motley Fool, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:05 AM

Imagine you wake up in your bed to a freezing cold house. You know you set the thermostat to the right temperature the night before, so something must be wrong. You stumble out of bed and into the hallway to look at the thermostat. It's off -- and it won't turn back on. That was the scenario for some Nest thermostat owners (the company owned by Alphabet's Google) after a software updated inadvertently added a bug to thermostat's system, causing the batteries to drain and the device to turn off. In the scheme of Internet-connected devices, this wasn't a disaster. Nest identified the problem relatively quickly and provided steps for users to reboot their devices, and for those who couldn't figure it out, Nest offered to send an electrician to their home. Rebooting the device was inconvenient for users, but that's about all. 

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