Smart assistants feel friendly, which makes oversharing easy. Here's a look at Alexa questions that can cause real problems ...

Amazon is expanding Alexa's new AI powers outward, as both Prime and other Amazon users may now access Alexa+ on the web for ...

It sounds like I’m talking to a teenage girl, wayyyy too peppy for me at 6 o’clock in the morning. Strongly debating going to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ...

On Thursday, Amazon introduced nearly a dozen new Alexa-powered products to the world. Some, like this year’s Echo Dot, were standard upgrades to familiar products. But in the bulk of the newcomers ...

Namely, you can now use person detection to fire off a set of commands as part of an Alexa routine. Think about lights that turn on and off depending on whether anyone is in the room. An air ...

Amazon started the current trend of voice assistants when it launched the Amazon Echo four years ago. But the first-mover advantage doesn’t last all that long in tech, and Google has been pouring its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author of best seller AARP Roadmap for the Rest of Your Life. In the olden days – way back in the 20th century – when my wife and ...

Alexa is one of the most popular smart assistants around. Along with the ability to control your smart home via voice commands, it lets you quickly get the latest news, check the weather, or check the ...

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa is typically associated with smart devices, from Amazon’s own Echo smart speaker line to compatible TVs, air conditioners, and more. But we don’t always mention that ...

But Echo spoke for itself–and not just literally. People quickly saw that the pint-size cylinder was a genuinely new kind of consumer-electronics device. They got excited over the concept, and, soon ...

More than 100 million devices with Alexa on board have been sold. That’s the all-too-rare actual number that Amazon’s SVP of devices and services, Dave Limp, revealed to me earlier this week. That’s ...