Amazon"s Alexa hears anchorman report story, puts in orders for dollhouses

There is a downside to smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and the Google Home. Since they are made to respond to the spoken word, some times the devices don"t take into consideration the source of those words. For example, the other day a 6-year old girl from Dallas named Brooke Neitzel ordere..

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Volkswagen and Ford will be integrating their vehicles with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant

Amazon"s Alexa voice assistant used to live predominantly in wireless speakers, but is now moving into smartphones (the Huawei Mate 9 becoming the first, and so far only example) and, what do you know – cars! At CES, Volkswagen announced it"s integrating Alexa into future automobiles with ..

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Amazon"s Alexa to be found on the next Android powered Huawei flagship phone in the U.S.

Sure, Alexa has been the voice activated personal assistant on Amazon Echo devices, but is it ready to handle tasks barked at it by phone users? Huawei announced at CES this week that the U.S. version of its next flagship phone will include an app that connects to Alexa. This has some analysts belie..

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Lenovo outs its own Alexa-powered home speaker

Lenovo will be the next major tech company to dive into the smart home market with its own AI-powered speaker, called the Smart Assistant. Following the launch of Google Home, and amidst rumors that Microsoft intends to enter the competition harnessing the power of Cortana and ubiquity of Windows PC..

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Kid attempts to get information from Alexa, ends up educated about porn (NSFW VIDEO)

For those of you unfamiliar with Alexa, she is a virtual assistant who lives in the cloud. She can be activated on Amazon Echo devices by simply saying her name and asking a question (what is the score of the Miami Dolphons game?) or requesting that a task be done (time 10-minutes). For the most par..

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Amazon"s Alexa AI can finally understand follow-up questions

Amazon"s Alexa AI is insanely cool, and while the folks over in Seattle have been doing a tremendous job at making their virtual assistant smarter and smarter since its initial release, it still isn"t quite perfect. One of the biggest disadvantages that the Alexa platform has faced since i..

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It was a Green Christmas for Amazon as Alexa-enabled Echo devices sold extremely well

Retailer Amazon is wrapping up a prosperous Christmas shopping season with sales of its Echo devices up 9 times over last year"s figures. Overall, Amazon had its best Christmas ever led by devices like the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, Fire tablet and the Amazon Echo; all of these products ended up ..

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