Amazon Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) review: Minor improvements
Smart displays are getting increasingly powerful. Not only can they show information related to your voice requests, but they can also be used for video …
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This new Alexa feature is so much cooler than we thought it would be
The voice of digital assistants has come a long way from the cold lifelessness manifested in the HAL 9000’s infamous apology to Dave, the one …
Atari founder will debut an intriguing new board game at Comic-Con
Nolan Bushnell’s famous dictum about what makes for a great game is that it should be “easy to learn, difficult to master.” The Atari co-founder …
Alexa is invading Windows 10 computers
It’s not a secret that you can run two virtual assistants on Windows 10 computers, including Microsoft’s own Cortana as well as Amazon’s Alexa. But …
Amazon’s next big products may be a high-end Echo and an Alexa home robot
Amazon’s suite of hardware will continue to grow in the coming years, as Bloomberg reports the company is making progress on its voice-activated home robot …
Your next smart speaker might save your life
The typical consumer who owns at least one smart speaker in their home might use it for helpful tasks that make the mundanity of daily …
Amazon is being sued over claims that Alexa ‘routinely records’ children
Anyone who opens YouTube can find countless videos of children reacting with glee and amusement when conversing with Alexa, the digital voice assistant that powers …
Amazon Echo users can now ask Alexa to delete stored voice recordings
Thanks to a seemingly endless number of privacy scandals involving Facebook and other entities, tech users across the board have recently become much more privacy-minded. …
Amazon reportedly developing a wearable that recognizes human emotions
In its latest effort to be involved in every aspect of our lives, Amazon is reportedly working on a new voice-activated wearable device that is …
Every Windows 10 PC can now use Alexa hands-free
While Cortana is still technically the default voice-activated virtual assistant on Windows 10 devices, it never took off quite like Microsoft hoped it would. That …
Amazon Music’s free ad-supported tier is now available for all Alexa users
Amazon on Thursday announced that everyone with an Alexa-enabled device can now listen to music for free. The free tier is ad-supported, as Billboard’s report …
Thousands of Amazon employees hear what you say to Alexa
Amazon has thousands of employees across the globe who actively listen to Alexa recordings from Echo devices as part of a broad effort to improve …
Amazon reportedly working on AirPods rival that will let you talk to Alexa
Amazon’s secretive Lab126 hardware division has reportedly been told to prioritize work toward the development of a new piece of consumer hardware that could help …
Sneaky 6-year-old gets caught asking Alexa for help with math homework
According to New Jersey mom Yerelyn Cueva, her 6-year-old son Jariel’s favorite subject is math. Okay, the kid likes numbers. Nothing unusual there. That fact, …
Here’s why Amazon’s Alexa says random creepy things like ‘kill your foster parents’
At this point, it seems clear that Amazon executives don’t get bent out of shape when they hear about the Alexa digital assistant blurting out …
Amazon just sent 1,700 private Alexa recordings to the wrong person
It was just this past May that Amazon had to explain itself after Alexa recorded a family’s private chats on their Echo speaker, and then accidentally sent …
Almost 130,000 people asked Alexa to explain what ‘Fortnite’ is in 2018
It’s that time of year. The time of year when the world falls in love, like the song goes, and when the tech giants start …
An intelligent parrot used Alexa to play music and order food from Amazon
An African grey parrot has made headlines recently for inadvertently making orders via his owner’s Amazon Echo. Originally reported via The Times of London, the …
Alexa is teaching itself to get better at understanding what you mean
One of the drawbacks of relying on a voice-based digital assistant like Alexa is you may be interacting with it without the benefit of a …
Skype calling and Pandora Premium arrive on Alexa devices
Amazon’s Alexa-powered devices are certainly the market leaders in the smart speaker category. And the more time that passes, the more useful they seem to …
Here’s why you can’t use Alexa to call 911
Amazon’s suite of hardware products that are powered by its virtual assistant Alexa are used for everything from playing music to controlling different aspects of …
How to enable Alexa’s whisper mode, rolling out now for Echo devices
Amazon announced over a dozen brand new products last month at its hardware event in Seattle, such as the Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Auto, …
Report: Amazon will unveil 8 new Alexa devices at an event later this month
Amazon is about to add its popular voice assistant Alexa to more than half a dozen new products — devices that range from a microwave …
You can now control your Xbox One with Alexa and Cortana
When the Xbox One launched, the revival of the Kinect seemed like a distinct possibility. After all, Microsoft had built all sorts of clever voice …
Amazon enlists more universities to help it give Alexa a leg up on the Google Assistant
If you’re Amazon and a big believer that voice inputs form an increasingly important technology platform, then the natural reaction is to put your Alexa-powered …
Alexa and Cortana can now be summoned on rival devices, in case that excites you
If you’re the proud owner of an Amazon Alexa-powered device who’d prefer to summon the digital dulcet tones of Microsoft’s assistant Cortana instead of Alexa …
Polk Command Bar review: A fantastic sound bar that happens to have Alexa
At a press conference last month, renowned home audio brand Sonos made a big deal out of how its sound bar with built-in Alexa is …
Sorry, Alexa – practically no one uses you to buy things from Amazon
Researchers estimate that voice shopping is a market that’s going to explode in a big way over the next couple of years, hitting more than …
Kevin McCallister could have put this new Alexa skill to good use in ‘Home Alone’
A would-be burglar creeps up on a house that looks like a tempting target, only to find — darn, it’s not empty. He listens closer …
Alexa is one step closer to replacing Siri as voice control comes to iOS app
Over a year after landing on the App Store, the Alexa app on iOS finally supports voice commands starting today. The feature arrived on Android …
