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.

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Could this be the strongest Echo Show yet?

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 is rolling out a new feature for its virtual assistant Alexa that will notify users when it learns answers to old questions, TechCrunch reports. The “Answer Updates” feature, which customers ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Echo Show feature has been around for years but it’s still one of the best ...

A recently uncovered Amazon patent provides critical insights into how the company is merging Alexa's voice capabilities with Rufus's product intelligence to create a more sophisticated shopping ...