Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Amazon has quietly started rolling out Alexa.com, bringing its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the desktop browser for the ...

Amazon's huge voice assistant upgrade is conversational, connected and well-suited for Prime users. I enjoy it, but still ...

Alexa is easily the current leader of the growing virtual assistant market, and Amazon is keen to stay ahead of competition from Google and Apple. The company's newest feature for Alexa is dubbed ...

Amazon's Alexa team is hard at work on an updated "AI brain" for the voice-activated smart assistant, according to a new report. But thanks to technical hiccups, a rapidly shifting AI market, and a ...

Alexa, a voice-based AI “digital assistant” that lives inside the retailer’s line of Echo home speakers, was launched in 2014 after Amazon bought a Polish speech synthesizer outfit called Ivona. Back ...

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Amazon’s Alexa needs no Introduction, however, its users are going through a dilemma because of it. Is Alexa not responding? Is it lightning up but not working? If all these scenarios are applicable, ...