Amazon's digital assistant can play music, tell you the weather and even turn off your lights. So why can't it perform these actions? Katie covered all things how-to at CNET, with a focus on Social ...

If you have an Alexa-enabled device, you probably already know how to ask her for the weather, to start a timer and to adjust your smart lighting. But, there are many clever Alexa voice commands that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Amazon Echo and the Google Home are among the elite when it ...

Amazon's voice assistant Alexa has evolved far beyond the simple talking speaker that launched more than a decade ago. Like Siri on your iPhone, playing music or checking weather updates is fine, but ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Since its introduction at the end of 2014, the Amazon Echo has done ...

Amazon will soon disable a privacy-focused feature available on three of its newer Echoes that allows commands to those smart speakers to be processed on the device rather than online. The decision is ...

Amazon's Echo lineup, like some smart speakers, uses proximity detection to decide which device is best-suited to responding to your voice commands. It's a clever way to prevent multiple devices from ...

While Amazon’s Echo can tell you about traffic and control your smart-home devices, users haven’t had much ability to develop their own commands for Alexa. But thanks to an improved integration with ...

Even though they’re not quite as ubiquitous in homes compared to smart speakers, the continuing affordability of smart displays make them valuable assets with far more functionality. If the report ...

Amazon.com is updating its Alexa voice software to let users delete recordings of their voice using a spoken command, a move that follows criticism of the company’s privacy practices related to its ...

Telling Amazon's Alexa to play some music or add an item to your shopping list is pretty cool, but there comes a point where you start to feel the limits of the Echo's pre-programmed voice commands.