Published on: 2025-04-22 11:25:38
Many of us spend a big chunk of our week behind the wheel, whether its from commuting to and from work an hour each way or just taking long multi-hour weekend trips across several states. And unless you’re some psycho who drives in pure silence, we need to keep ourselves entertained be it with music, podcasts, audiobooks, or calling up a friend or family member. The Amazon Echo Auto is designed for exactly that and right now it is 36% off, bringing the price down to just $35. See at Amazon You
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 11:35:00
ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon sells the Echo Hub for $180. The Echo Hub gives Alexa the place it has earned in the smart home market: A control panel to easily access smart devices, no ads, and no unnecessary fluff. The smart display can be slow and buggy, especially while loading multiple camera views $129.99 at Amazon $129.99 at Best Buy $129.99 at B&H Photo-Video more buying choices The Amazon Echo Hub is currently on sale for $130. Act fast because this deal will only be available for a li
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:17:00
Amazon Alexa is one of the most capable smart assistants you can add to your home. With over 200 voice commands at your disposal, it puts the power of your smart home at the tip of your tongue. Just speak up to control your lights, adjust your thermostat or check who's at the front door. Alexa can also help you in the kitchen with timers and conversions or liven up family game night. The Alexa ecosystem has grown far beyond the traditional smart speaker format. Now, you'll find Amazon's assista
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 03:45:27
Alexander Skarsgård stars in the sci-fi thriller Murderbot. A rogue cyborg security (SEC) unit gains autonomy and must learn to interact with humans while hiding its new capability in the trailer for Murderbot, Apple TV+'s new 10-episode sci-fi comedic thriller starring Alexander Skarsgård. It's based on the bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. And judging from the trailer, Murderbot looks like it will strike just the right balance between humor and action. There are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 07:00:00
For a being named Murderbot, the star of Apple’s next sci-fi show is surprisingly relatable. The show — which is also called Murderbot — just got its first trailer, and it sets up the titular lead, played by Alexander Skarsgård, who has just become sentient and is, well, struggling. The bot is forced to hide its free will, and does typical human things like watching too much TV and avoiding eye contact, while also risking itself to protect a research team on a dangerous alien planet.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 23:05:30
We’ve all been there – tearing apart the couch cushions, checking under every blanket, and still no sign of the TV remote. Amazon’s Fire TV Alexa Voice Remote Pro solves this age-old problem with a simple voice command that makes your remote ring. And that’s just the start of what this upgraded clicker can do. Amazon has knocked the price of the Fire TV Alexa Voice Remote Pro down to $28, saving you $7 off the regular $35 price tag. While 20% off might not seem huge, this is actually the lowest
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 23:14:31
Apple has gotten a lot of flack for talking up Apple Intelligence while delivering very little of it, and now it seems Amazon is about to do the exact same thing. A new report citing internal company documents suggests that Alexa+, Amazon’s equivalent of the new Siri, will also launch without many of its headline features … Apple Intelligence embarrassment Apple promised a new, conversational Siri and a whole lot more, but what has actually launched is essentially just tinkering around the ed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 20:14:31
Apple has gotten a lot of flack for talking up Apple Intelligence while delivering very little of it, and now it seems Amazon is about to do the exact same thing. A new report citing internal company documents suggests that Alexa+, Amazon’s equivalent of the new Siri, will also launch without many of its headline features … Apple Intelligence embarrassment Apple promised a new, conversational Siri and a whole lot more, but what has actually launched is essentially just tinkering around the ed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 07:04:16
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Alexa Plus has launched in early access for a small number of users. The AI-powered assistant is missing a few of its promised features. The delayed features reportedly don’t live up to Amazon’s standards for a public release. In February, Amazon held a live event to announce the upcoming launch of Alexa Plus. This souped-up version of Alexa is designed to leverage AI to be more intelligent, proactive, and generally useful. Alexa Plus has now launche
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 19:07:41
If there’s one thing you can count on with AI tools is that they’ll launch without most of the promised features. It happened with Apple Intelligence. It happened with Galaxy AI. Now, it’s happening with Alexa+, Amazon’s AI-heavy upgrade to its virtual assistant. The tool is officially available but it doesn’t do a whole lot, according to reporting by The Washington Post. The paper reviewed a number of internal company documents that noted the delay of many features. These documents suggest tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 19:45:39
In Brief Amazon has delivered on its promise to launch an upgraded Alexa experience, Alexa+, by the end of March. But the service reportedly lacks many of the features Amazon demoed at a press event in late February. Alexa+ can’t yet perform certain “agentic” AI tasks showcased in the company’s marketing, like ordering takeout on Grubhub or generating stories to entertain kids, according to The Washington Post. The assistant also can’t visually identify people and remind them to do particular
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 07:58:23
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus – but it’s only available to a “small number” of customers to start, Amazon spokesperson Kristy Schmidt confirmed to The Verge. As shown on its early access page, Alexa Plus also doesn’t come with all the features Amazon showcased during its recent devices event, like the ability to brainstorm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 19:10:26
If you have not fallen prey to an Alexa-fitted speaker yet, even though hundreds of millions of people worldwide have done so, then think about the Amazon Echo Show 5. The product is a notch over carrying a simple Echo Dot or Echo Spot as it comes with a touchscreen screen. Now available for $69 down from $89 during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, this is a must-have opportunity to experience why so many love incorporating Alexa into their daily lives. See at Amazon Visual Experience, Alexa-enabled
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 18:55:23
ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon sells the Echo Hub for $180. The Echo Hub gives Alexa the place it has earned in the smart home market: A control panel to easily access smart devices, no ads, and no unnecessary fluff. The smart display can be slow and buggy, especially while loading multiple camera views $129.99 at Amazon $129.99 at Best Buy $129.99 at B&H Photo-Video more buying choices The Amazon Echo Hub is now on sale at 28% off, available for only $130, during the Amazon Big Spring Sale. A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 18:33:00
Amazon's big 2025 Alexa announcement hit late last month, and we were there to cover the demos and new features. The new AI upgrade is aimed at making Alexa more conversational and at letting the virtual assistant tackle more-complex commands. But not everyone is jumping for joy. A new change to privacy settings, in preparation for Alexa Plus, is making waves. Starting March 28, Alexa Echo users won't be able to block their devices from sending all voice recordings to Amazon for analysis. Just
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 07:01:00
More Smart Displays We Like Google Nest Hub for $100: Google’s second-gen Nest Hub (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is a great option if you don't need a camera and don’t mind a smaller 7-inch screen. It has a wake-up alarm that emulates the rising sun for gentler mornings, and it has sleep tracking tech to track your sleep quality, though the quality of the results isn't great. It also supports gestures—like playing or pausing a video with a hand movement—by using unique radar tech. Echo Show 5 (3rd
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 11:01:06
It’s a curious image. The philosopher Plato, dressed in a turban and a sash, sits before a pipe organ and plays sweet tunes. Meanwhile, around him lies a catatonic tribe of lions, tigers, antelopes, leopards, deer, rhinos, cranes, phoenixes and other beasts. What’s going on here? Are these animals sleeping? Are they dead? What is Plato up to? It’s a strange and fascinating scene, so yesterday — not having much else to do under lockdown — I set about finding out more. It is not a scene you will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 15:12:25
According to images seen by The Verge, Amazon is testing changing the name of its Echo smart speakers and smart displays to Alexa. We saw two separate instances of Amazon.com landing pages displaying the name of the Echo Show 5 smart display as the Alexa Show 5, along with new branding for an Alexa Show 15, Alexa Show 10, Alexa Show 8, and Alexa Spot. Following receiving a tip from a reader who landed on an Echo Show 5 page on Amazon.com where the product had been rebranded Alexa Show 5, The Ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 17:09:00
The Echo Show 8 is one of the devices slated to get first access to Alexa+, Amazon's new voice assistant, which comes out later this spring. Before that release, though, the impending arrival will cause the privacy feature that keeps your voice recordings stored locally to go away. As of March 28, 2025, all voice commands will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud. Connects to Alexa. ★ A cheaper, similar Echo Show: The second-gen Echo Show 8 ($130) is a little cheaper and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 17:00:00
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Porsche is upgrading the infotainment in the upcoming 2026 model year Taycan, 911, Panamera, and Cayenne with “more responsive” software and features such as an Alexa personal assistant. The 2026 Porsche Communication Management (PCM) will get the Porsche App Center introduced in the Macan Electric. It provides “direct access to a large numbe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 17:55:06
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Amazon , in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users. AI has become a major area of investment across Amazon, including in its retail, cloud computing, devices and health-care businesses. Within the reta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:20:00
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Amazon announced a generative AI-powered Alexa+ in February. It's a revamped version of Amazon's popular virtual assistant that leverages the power of generative artificial intelligence to enhance the user experience. Alexa+ is exactly what you may have envisioned when you first heard of voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google, but without the accompanying disappointment at their shortcomings. Also: Everything you need to know about Alexa+, Amazon's new generative AI ass
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 22:18:29
The new souped-up Alexa voice assistant, Alexa Plus, is scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks in an early access preview. The good news is that as long as you have (or buy) an Echo Show 8, 10, 15, or 21 smart display, you’ll be able to use the generative-AI powered Alexa across any compatible Echo device you own. It will also work on Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, on the web at Alexa.com, and in the Alexa app. Sadly, a few Echo devices will be left out of the party. Several early models, in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 18:12:58
You thought your little Alexa devices were a privacy nightmare before? Well, the situation has only gotten grimmer. As part of its rollout of the "Alexa+" generative AI update — a phrase already weighted with dystopic portents — Amazon is changing it so that none of the requests you make to the tiny-speaker-cum-virtual assistants can be stored and processed locally, Ars Technica reports. Now, all of that must be done on the Cloud. And that means that going forward, everything you tell Alexa wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 10:15:00
Amazon Alexa is a versatile smart assistant and probably one of the best for your smart home. It can help you better harness the power of your smart home devices with over 200 voice commands. These include controlling smart lights, thermostats and more with simple voice commands. Alexa can even help you out in the kitchen or join your family game night. And with Amazon's Big Spring Sale now underway, many of the below picks are seeing significant savings. Amazon's voice assistant now supports e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 10:30:00
is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Suno wasn’t supposed to be an important part of Amazon’s Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how Alexa Plus could integrate into other apps, sandwiched between other announcements. But it caught my attention all the same — because whether Amazon realized it or not, the company blundered into
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 02:27:46
Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon's AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis. Amazon hasn't formally announced the change, and the help page for the feature still makes no mention of the March 28 deprecation. But the internet souk confirmed to The Register that emails to users about the update, which caused a stir on social media over the weekend, are indeed le
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 06:09:07
Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 10:01:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: Amazon Echo users concerned about their privacy might have something else to worry about on March 28. That's the date when supported devices will lose the option to store and process Alexa requests locally, ensuring that all voice recordings are sent to the cloud. An email that Amazon sent to customers confirms that the Do Not Send Voice Recordings feature they enabled on supported Ec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 10:14:17
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