Articles about Alexa – Page 13 of 15

Amazon partners with Techstars for new Alexa accelerator at University of Washington

Amazon is looking for startups that can build innovative technologies using the company’s Alexa artificial intelligence platform. The tech giant today… Read More

Book a trip with your voice? Travel giant Expedia launches new Amazon Alexa skill

Today, Expedia is rolling out a new skill for Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices in advance of the busiest travel season of… Read More

NASA unveils a skill for Amazon’s Alexa that lets you ask questions about Mars

Amazon’s Alexa has gained many skills over the past year, such as being able to read tweets or deliver election… Read More

New Alexa skill lets AT&T customers send text messages through Amazon Echo speaker

Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa is becoming very skillful these days. She can buy stuff, she can find a lost phone,… Read More

Amazon invents another excuse to buy stuff: ‘Voice Shopping Weekend’ offers Alexa-exclusive deals

First there was Black Friday, then Cyber Monday. Now it’s “Voice Shopping Weekend.” Amazon has come up with a new holiday… Read More

Naughty or nice? Microsoft adds new holiday list feature for Cortana with Wunderlist integration

Microsoft released a new skill for making and maintaining lists using its digital assistant Cortana, just in time for the… Read More

Developer bootcamp Coding Dojo launches Amazon Alexa training program

Coding Dojo, a Bellevue, Wash.-based developer bootcamp, is launching a new training program for Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, starting today.… Read More

12 college teams try to build convincingly conversant chatbots in quest for Amazon’s $2.7M Alexa Prize pool

Amazon has revealed the 12 university teams that will compete for the inaugural Alexa Prize — which challenges students to build a… Read More

‘Alexa, who’s winning the presidential race?’ Amazon Echo gets real-time election updates

It’s going to be a long day, folks. If you don’t want to follow along on Twitter or tune into the… Read More

Something’s fishy about this Alexa: Big Mouth Billy Bass takes on voice of Amazon’s AI

“Alexa, tell me where my hammer is.” No, not to whack the guy who made this thing, but to whack… Read More

Reviews: Google Home outsmarts Amazon Echo, but Alexa is more skilled

Google’s $129 smart speaker ships tomorrow, and a new batch of reviews say Google Home is smarter than its competitor… Read More

Could smart speakers, like Amazon Echo, outpace early iPhone sales?

(Updated at 10:25 a.m. with more accurate iPhone sales numbers and clarification on smart speaker market). Allow me to take… Read More

Live Blog: Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in New York City

NEW YORK — GeekWire is live in the Big Apple, awaiting a series of announcements from Microsoft. Today we expect… Read More

Jeff Bezos sees a big future for Amazon Echo, Alexa and AI in health care

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks Alexa, the virtual assistant that powers Echo devices, could be a useful tool for health… Read More

Want to keep talking about the election? Amazon updates Alexa so she can answer key questions

Like many of us — when we’re not being asked to play more Adele or order more toilet paper —… Read More

Alexa in a drone: Amazon wins patent for voice-controlled ‘unmanned aerial vehicle assistant’

Amazon is working on adding an Alexa-like digital brain that can control drones small enough to fit in someone’s pocket… Read More

How people are using the Amazon Echo: New study reveals surprising patterns

Amazon’s Echo product line has been called the “accidental winner” of the smart-home speaker market, but it’s more accurate to… Read More

Third-party Amazon Alexa-enabled devices get key ‘wake word’ capability thanks to Seattle startup

Amazon makes it easy to create new “skills” for its Alexa voice-command system that work on its own devices, with step-by-step tutorials… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa will soon be able to cook a steak using ChefSteps’ Joule sous vide device

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is learning to cook the perfect steak. Seattle cooking startup ChefSteps unveiled at the GeekWire Summit 2016 a… Read More

Google unveils new Pixel smartphone, Daydream mobile VR platform and Amazon Echo competitor Google Home

Google today unveiled a huge new catalog of devices it plans to release in the coming months: a new smartphone, a virtual-reality… Read More

Watch out, Amazon: Google set to launch Echo competitor at event Tuesday

Google is poised to launch its Amazon Echo challenger at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to reports from… Read More

Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse intelligently for 20 minutes

Amazon will award up to $2.5 million in prizes and sponsorships in a new annual competition called the “Alexa Prize”— challenging university students… Read More

Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick comes with Alexa remote that can find TV shows, give news updates and order a pizza

Next month, Amazon will release the newest version of the Fire TV Stick, complete with an Alexa-powered remote for $39.99.… Read More

Amazon Alexa Fund leads $5.6M investment in touchscreen intercom builder Nucleus

Amazon’s $100 million Alexa Fund has made its latest investment: leading a $5.6 million round in a company called Nucleus… Read More

Analysts: Amazon stock could hit $1,000/share with Alexa possibly becoming a ‘fourth pillar’

A pair of Wall Street analysts are high on Amazon, and they project the company’s stock may soon exceed $1,000… Read More

Amazon Alexa in every room? New $50 Echo Dot comes in a 12-pack for $500

Amazon this morning unveiled a new version of its Echo Dot smart speaker — upgrading the hardware design, dropping the price to… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa tops 3,000 skills, can now read tweets and soon fantasy football scores

If only we could all learn as many skills as quickly as Alexa. The digital brain behind Amazon’s Echo and Dot… Read More

Talk to the fridge: GE links appliances to Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant to enable voice controls

The home of tomorrow, full of automated gadgets controlled by an AI housemaid, is not as far fetched as we once thought. From Amazon’s… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant coming to Fire tablets, expanding beyond Echo and Fire TV

Amazon’s Alexa is coming to its Fire tablets, giving users quick access to the voice-enabled virtual assistant, and positioning the company to… Read More

Amazon expands Alexa on Fire TV to search across more apps, including Netflix

Amazon Tuesday announced another wave of updates to its Fire TV platform, with an emphasis on improving integration of the… Read More