A year in, Alexa Plus is the best smart home assistant I’ve tested: It’s easy to talk to, handles routines and multistep commands, and helps in the kitchen. But Amazon’s attempts to stretch it into a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the age of AI, it should come as no surprise that Amazon's shopping tools can notify you when an item's price drops and, for eligible Prime ...

If you're an Alexa+ or Amazon Prime member, your interactions with Alexa are no longer relegated to fairly standard voice types or the creepy "Whisper Mode." Amazon now lets eligible users experiment ...

The Amazon Echo lineup of smart speakers and smart displays continues to be one of the most convenient and intuitive ways to automate your home. Powered by Alexa, products like the Echo Dot and Echo ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Using Alexa with your Echo devices or other smart home appliances is a good way to keep everything interconnected. You can use Alexa for a ...

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...

Amazon sells a variety of products, and the Fire TV lineup is one of the most popular in its catalog. It's the most convenient way to convert your regular TV into a smart one. Once hooked up to your ...

Alexa Plus is getting a new personality — actually, three of them. Amazon announced Wednesday that it is adding three styles to its generative AI assistant, with the idea that you’ll want the app to ...

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps. I took the new feature for a spin, and it does work. Alexa+ did a good job ...

Alexa+ is Amazon’s new AI-infused version of its popular assistant. Following a slow initial rollout, Amazon has just made Alexa+ available to all users in the US. Here’s how to upgrade to Alexa+, or ...

If you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you probably already know you can ask it to make a grocery list, give a weather forecast, or ponder the meaning of life. What you might not realize is that you ...