Alexa skills are voice-activated functions for Amazon Echo speakers and displays similar to apps on a smartphone. This list ...

With artifical intelligence (AI) a dominant theme at this year's CES, Amazon has unveiled three new Alexa skills that all come with a hefty helping of AI. Now accessible to all Echo and Alexa users, ...

Just picked up an Amazon Echo device? Then you'll be itching to discover what it can do. Play music? Check. Answer questions? Check. But as the 30 best Alexa skills (skills being similar to apps), ...

While the average Hackaday reader is arguably less likely than most to install a megacorp’s listening device in their home, we know there’s at least some of you out there that have an Amazon hockey ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ...

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 ...

Hagop is passionate about smart home products, especially when it comes to making life easier. He's always eager to try out new technologies to make life easier, in terms of cleaning, automation, and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You need a smart display to get early access. You need a smart display to get early access. The new souped-up ...

In another sign that Amazon is changing course with Alexa, the company has warned developers that it will soon stop paying them to build Alexa skills. As spotted by Bloomberg, Amazon posted a notice ...

After more than a month of sporadic outages that left many Sengled smart bulb users struggling to control their lights, Amazon has opted to pull the skill that allowed Sengled users to control their ...