Alexa gets smarter about combining AI skills, starting with dinner and a movie LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant will soon get savvier about juggling its thousands of skills — starting with… Read More
New Amazon feature lets users tell Alexa to delete recent voice recordings and commands Amazon is stepping up its privacy options for its voice assistant and digital brain Alexa, as tech giants look to… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Paging Dr. Alexa: Hospitals call on voice assistants, envisioning ‘massive’ impact on healthcare Play Voice assistants are coming to the hospital. Last month, Amazon Alexa announced a new skill that made the platform compliant… Read More
Amazon is reportedly building a wellness device that senses emotions in your voice Amazon is reportedly working on a health and wellness device that is worn on the wrist and can read human… Read More
Amazon says millions of custom Alexa voice apps have come out of no-code Skill Blueprints program Amazon has counted on others to spread Alexa everywhere — first developers, then device makers, and most recently everyone else.… Read More
Will AirPods spark the next technology wave? How ‘personal audio computing’ could reshape the industry Phone, keys, wallet. Oh, and AirPods. It’s happened to me, and I bet it’s happened to you too. The trio… Read More
Should Apple join Amazon’s healthcare venture? Analysts make the case for collaboration between tech giants As big tech companies vie for a slice of the $3.5 trillion spent by Americans on healthcare each year, analysts… Read More
Alexa, certify me: Amazon Web Services launching training program for Alexa skill builders Amazon Web Services plans to launch a certification program Tuesday that will give developers building so-called “skills” for its Echo… Read More
Jeff Bezos uses annual Amazon letter as antitrust antidote: ‘Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.’ Amazon is getting trounced by third-party sellers on its platform, has weathered some spectacular failures in the process of building… Read More
Amazon adds HIPAA compliance to Alexa Skills, opening door for secure health apps Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has a new trick: transmitting secure patient information between patients and caregivers. Developers can now use… Read More
This new health bot aims to spur behavioral change by using human-like compassion Tuzag is betting that health bots need a better bedside manner. The startup just launched a chat service that’s part… Read More
Amazon invests in Seattle startup Jargon, a voice application content platform for developers Voice technology continues to proliferate. There are more than 66 million smart speaker units in the U.S., up from 36… Read More
Worth seeing? We get fitted for Alexa-enabled smart glasses in a mobile showroom in Seattle A block from Amazon’s signature Spheres in Seattle, a small trailer was parked Monday in a lot that will soon… Read More
Amazon maintains big lead in smart speaker market over Google and Apple, new survey estimates There’s been some buzz about Google’s smart speakers catching up to Amazon’s market-leading offerings in recent months, but a new… Read More
Super Bowl ad recap: Bezos pushes Post message; T-Mobile offers freebies; Xbox and Alexa score big Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t show up in his company’s latest Super Bowl ad for Alexa. But his message was… Read More
Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed… Read More
Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors… Read More
Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Round 2: Digital assistants duke it out in the desert LAS VEGAS — Sin City has served as the backdrop to some of the most famous bouts and rematches in… Read More
The world’s first e-bike with Amazon’s Alexa built in LAS VEGAS — The first ever electric bicycle with Amazon’s digital assistant built in made its public debut at CES… Read More
Amazon reveals number of Alexa devices sold as smart speaker competition heats up Amazon says more than 100 million Alexa-powered devices have been sold, a figure that shows the company’s early lead in… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: CES set to exhibit the latest on 5G, AI and more Don’t look now, but 2019 is almost here. Hope you had a refreshing break, because the new year, as it… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Geared Up: Alexa from end to end, a hot-selling Elon Musk keepsake, and more crazy moments of 2018 Play A voice-activated microwave. A smart toilet. And a flamethrower … not. Those products represent a handful of the highlights for… Read More
Amazon is crowdsourcing Alexa’s ability to answer questions, says safeguards will keep out offensive content Amazon is enlisting customers to help make its digital brain Alexa better at answering questions. The tech giant today unveiled… Read More
Taps for Amazon Tap? Groundbreaking portable Alexa speaker disappears from Amazon Amazon has apparently — and quietly — silenced its Amazon Tap smart speaker. The portable Alexa device is not being… Read More
‘Not your father’s Big Mouth Billy Bass’: Amazon’s Alexa now comes out of the novelty fish’s lips Hoo boy, look what we done caught in the inter-net. Big Mouth Billy Bass, the flopping, singing, plastic sensation mounted… Read More
My parents are wowed by Amazon, LimeBikes and more as longtime visitors return to big, new Seattle Getting together with family during the holidays — especially with members who visit from across the country — is a… Read More
Alexa, heat up our leftovers: GeekWire gives Amazon’s new voice-controlled microwave a spin Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa boasts more than 50,000 skills, and one of its newest is microwave chef. That’s thanks to… Read More
Amazon releases new tools to help device makers build Alexa into bluetooth products Amazon just made it easier for makers of bluetooth devices such as headsets and smart watches to build in the… Read More
Skype calling comes to Alexa devices, furthering Amazon and Microsoft’s surprising partnership Skype audio and video calling is now available on Alexa-powered devices, the latest integration to come out of the alliance… Read More
A talking white board? Alexa for Business extends to non-Echo devices for workplace environments As part of its continuing effort to make the intelligent voice assistant Alexa available everywhere, Amazon has announced that third-party… Read More
