Amazon Prime is really giving Santa Claus a run for his money. The Seattle-based retailer giant shipped more than 1 billion items with Prime around the world for the holiday season, more than five times its sales last holiday season, between November 1 to December 19. The Echo Dot was the most coveted gift out …
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You have the right to remain silent — but your smart devices might not. Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot are in millions of homes now, with holiday sales more than quadrupling from 2015. Always listening for its wake word, the breakthrough smart speakers boast seven microphones waiting to take and record your commands. Now, Arkansas police are hoping an Echo …
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Martian Watches has added Alexa to its line of mVoice timepieces, the watchmaker announced Tuesday. The partnership will give mVoice owners access to more than 5,000 of the Amazon voice assistant’s “skills,” which are kind of like apps. You’ll be able to ask the weather, add an item to a shopping list, create reminders or alarms, control your smart home, …
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The old “Top Gear” team of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reunite this Friday to the delight of gearheads everywhere in a new auto-focused series from Amazon called “The Grand Tour.” To celebrate the occasion, Amazon’s introducing a new skill for Alexa and offering its Prime service at a discount. Amazon Prime normally costs $99 a year. Starting …
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They say Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language — bad news for Amazon‘s Alexa, the voice-controlled personal assistant built into Amazon Echo and Echo Dot speakers. As the Echo crosses the pond to the UK, Alexa has had to learn a whole new version of English. So in the interests of maintaining the special relationship …
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Amazon’s Alexa is boldly going where no voice assistant has gone before. Now you can wear the voice assistant on you at all times, as Orion Labs announces Alexa’s compatibility with Onyx — a smart walkie-talkie that works like the communicators in Star Trek. “Onyx makes communicating — with people and with exciting new voice services like Amazon Alexa — …
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Now playing: Watch this: Alexa coming to Fire tablets 1:10 Amazon’s Alexa is moving into the mobile world. The voice assistant is coming to some Amazon Fire tablets as a software update — and that includes the newly upgraded Fire HD 8, shipping on September 21 for $89. It’s big news for Alexa’s growth, but voice assistant news won’t get …
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Want a smarter Alexa, savvier Siri, brainier Google Now or a cleverer Cortana? So do Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft — and each is working to make its voice assistant your personal Einstein of choice. Amazon recently enhanced its efforts by nabbing an AI expert from eBay, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Hassan Sawaf is now Amazon’s director of …
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Now playing: Watch this: Amazon wants to put Alexa on your PC 1:28 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant may be talking her way into yet another important place: PCs. Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has held talks with Amazon on potentially using Alexa in its computers and other devices, according to a Lenovo executive with knowledge of the talks. The …
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If documents and photos submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission are to be believed, Samsung is prepping a new voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that looks an awful lot like a potential competitor for the Amazon Echo and the upcoming Google Home. First noticed by Ausdroid, the speaker is currently called “Scoop.” It’s about the same size as the Amazon Echo …
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