Alexa skills are voice-activated functions for Amazon Echo speakers and displays similar to apps on a smartphone. This list features standout skills that highlight the platform's potential. They range ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...

Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away. Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future ...

You couldn’t miss the 2024 AI trends on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, but one announcement that flew slightly under the radar was Amazon’s launch of new ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...

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