The incredible convenience of Alexa comes with a trade-off—the constant presence of a listening device inside our homes. If you use an Amazon Alexa-powered device, it's time to take a few steps to ...

Although Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant Alexa has thousands of health and wellness skills — not to mention experts have touted its potential in the industry — a Quartz ...

Google started out as a search engine, so nobody ever expected it to be directly competing with Amazon, an online retailer, in the smart home market.

Yesterday, Reuters ran a story with the headline “Weeks after Amazon’s Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?,” in which it detailed its difficulty locating first-hand accounts of the ...

Amazon says you Alexa Plus users can start conversations on your PC and continue them on your mobile app or your Echo and Fire TV devices. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...

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Amazon augmented Alexa’s knowledge of COVID-19 so the device can now connect users to nearby COVID-19 vaccine appointments, the tech giant said April 20. Users can ask Alexa to list local vaccination ...

During my first few days with the Amazon Echo Dot Max, my general feeling was, “well, it’s definitely an Amazon Echo.” That’s not a bad thing, mind you; having a reliable Alexa speaker in my living ...

As Amazon prepares to roll out Alexa+, brands face an urgent need to adapt their digital strategy for voice-powered shopping. Recent patent findings suggest the integration of Alexa with Amazon's ...

Amazon AMZN.O on Wednesday unveiled the first major overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant since its introduction more than a decade ago, embedding it with generative artificial intelligence. The ...

Alexa is found primarily on Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers but is also available on some devices made by other manufacturers. All of the Echo devices are good (and some are very good) audio ...