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Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant. As the Financial Times reports, the tech giant still has to sort out "several technical hurdles" before ...

Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

The convenience of having a voice-prompted assistant can't be understated. Whether you have and iPhone and engage with Siri or an Android equipped with Google Assistant that help with anything from ...

I used to work in Alexa and I just don't see it being converted to an LLM solution for responses at all. A core problem is that user expectation is that responses are quite reliable outside of general ...

Amazon's Alexa horrified some parents when it answered kids' questions about "Elf on the Shelf." So I asked the company what ...

On The Vergecast: making sense of Alexa’s first decade, and wondering what might become of its second. On The Vergecast: making sense of Alexa’s first decade, and wondering what might become of its ...

Smart speakers can be a useful companion in your home. The voice-controlled devices can answer random questions, set multiple timers as you cook and play your favorite podcasts. Some even have ...

As Amazon.com Inc. trumpets its hosted IT infrastructure services, the Web site of its Alexa Internet division, responsible for some of the company’s best known Web services for developers, has been ...

Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant. “Hallucinations have to be close to zero,” Prasad told the FT. The issue? That’s far easier said than done ...

Apple and Amazon are two of the biggest players in home voice assistants (hardware and software). Both have struggled for years to develop a (arguable) compelling voice product. Each is taking a very ...