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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For the past few years, I’ve been waiting for Alexa’s AI glow-up. For more than a decade I’ve been a loyal user of Alexa, the voice assistant that powers Amazon’s home devices and ...

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 ...

Amazon has a new crop of Echo devices designed specifically for its big AI revamp of Alexa, including a couple of new Echo speakers, the Echo Dot Max (which we’ve previously reviewed) and the Echo ...