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Amazon temporarily stops selling its Echo Wall Clock: Why we wouldn’t buy another one anyway

Amazon has decided to temporarily stop selling its Echo Wall Clock, a device that displays the time of day and… 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

Think you know news? Don’t ‘Wait Wait’ to prove it as NPR brings popular quiz show to smart speakers

If you’re used to just talking at the radio on Saturday mornings and playing along with NPR’s weekly news quiz… 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

NFL and Amazon go deep with a new Alexa skill to help casual fans better understand football

Just in time for the NFL Playoffs, which kick off this weekend, casual football fans can learn the difference between… Read More

I got my parents an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas and here’s how they’re getting along with Alexa

I spend a lot of time talking to my parents about the shows they’re watching on TV or the films… 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

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

Amazon’s Alexa delves deeper into the Windows universe with new ‘Alexa for PC’ app

Amazon today unveiled a new Alexa for PCs app that will bring the digital assistant to a lot more Windows… Read More

Little girl tries repeatedly to get Alexa to play song, before mom launches cute ‘Baby Shark’ attack

One of these days, cute Alexa videos will probably jump the proverbial shark. We’re not there yet, because we need… Read More

Geek of the Week: Alexa is music to his ears, but Fred Clarke also conducts business with the Amazon Symphony Orchestra

Fred Clarke was a music geek before becoming a tech geek. But now that’s he’s a tech geek at Amazon,… Read More

Amazon reveals flurry of new devices as tech giant aims to get Alexa inside homes and cars

Amazon today unveiled 13 brand new devices, some expected, others surprising, as the tech giant continues its quest to put… Read More

Amazon teams up with Audi to expand Alexa’s automotive presence

Audi just became the latest carmaker to integrate Amazon’s digital brain Alexa into its vehicles. At an event in San… Read More

Bose unveils Alexa-powered smart speaker and soundbars, aligning with Amazon on ‘next chapter’

Bose today showed off a new smart speaker and pair of soundbars powered by Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa as it… Read More

Stormy Daniels, Santa and marijuana: Amazon cleans up Alexa’s answers to certain kid questions

We know kids have always said the darndest things, but in 2018, with the growing ubiquity of voice assistants in… Read More

Hey, roomie, I’m Alexa: Saint Louis University putting 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in student housing

Students headed back to school at one university this fall will be getting to know a new kind of roommate… Read More

Amazon doubles down on vehicles as the next domain for digital brain Alexa with new tools

Amazon’s mission to put Alexa everywhere took another step forward today with the announcement of a new set of tools… Read More

A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI

Inside its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Amazon provided NBC’s “Today” show with an exclusive look behind closed doors at the… Read More

Amazon aims to make it easier to play music on Echo speakers with new Alexa Cast feature

Amazon is out with a new feature that makes it easier to control music on Echo smart speakers and other… Read More

Amazon introduces new ‘Tap to Alexa’ accessibility feature for Echo Show

Amazon has added a new accessibility feature to the touchscreen smart speaker Echo Show to help customers who are deaf… Read More

Don’t count Cortana out: Study predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will rival Amazon and Google in business use

Cortana is getting serious traction in the enterprise world, according to a new study that predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will… Read More

Alexa, play this ad for the Sonos Beam, which makes all other smart speakers just look dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ2eUw6dG60 You might not need another smart speaker in your house, but a smart-aleck commercial about not-so-smart speakers is worth… Read More

Siri Shortcuts vs. Alexa Skills: How Apple is tapping apps to compete with Amazon’s voice assistant

One of Alexa’s biggest competitive advantages is its catalog of more than 40,000 skills, leveraging third-party services to provide additional… Read More

Here’s what Amazon had to say after investigating an unusual case of Alexa eavesdropping

Amazon says it is taking steps to make sure that its Alexa-powered Echo home speaker devices do not secretly record… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa arrives on Windows 10 laptops for the first time this week via Acer devices

Amazon’s Alexa is live on a Windows 10 laptop for the first time, making its debut on a pair of… Read More

Amazon Alexa VP departs as companies continue to target tech giant’s executives

Amazon Alexa Vice President Jim Freeman left the company for the second time to rejoin German e-commerce company Zalando. Freeman spent… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere — but the name is dropping in popularity for actual human babies

Don’t ask Alexa about recent trends around the most popular baby names in the United States — Amazon’s virtual assistant… Read More

TLDR: Cortana-Alexa integration, Bono invests in Seattle startup, Oculus Go first impressions

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon show Alexa-Cortana integrations for first time

Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa are finally talking, fulfilling a groundbreaking promise made last year to bring the rival digital… Read More