We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa can be too talkative for its own good at times, which can be a bit overwhelming for users constantly telling ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual ...

Amazon’s AI-powered voice assistant has a new home on the web. Amazon’s AI-powered voice assistant has a new home on the web. Today, when I typed Alexa.com into my web browser, it took me to a page ...

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Amazon's "Thank My Driver" program allows customers to show appreciation for their delivery drivers. Customers can thank their driver by using an Alexa-enabled device or through the Amazon app and ...

Amazon's new Echo Studio is one of two speakers that allow you to use Alexa Home Theater to its full potential. (Billy Steele for Engadget) When Amazon’s latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a ...

There is certainly some irony in one of the questions most commonly posed to Alexa this year: “What does AI mean?” Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant has become a regular feature in 21st ...

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Amazon has long had to deal with the reality that owners of its Echo smart speakers weren’t using its voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, to buy things, as it had hoped. The tech giant hasn’t given up ...