You’ve got your newest Amazon Dot, Echo or Alexa enabled device. Now what? It’s time for Alexa to learn some skills! It may seem confusing at first, but skills ...

Dozens of the best Amazon Echo and Fire TV Alexa commands. Others are available in the More menu of the Alexa app Alexa isn't just a speaker, it's a whole box of awesome waiting to be opened. Grab ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...

Christmas has come and gone and the odds are high you received an Echo device; maybe it was the flagship model, maybe it was the smaller Dot or the display-toting Show. Regardless, Alexa is now a ...

Alexa will soon have a better idea of what you’re asking and won’t need to ask you as many clarifying questions to provide a response. That’s because Amazon is making a concerted push to expand the ...

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Amazon Alexa isn’t just a phenomenal voice assistant for the needs, wants, and personalized automations of human beings, but it is all that for our pets, too. Would you believe us if we told you that ...

Alexa-powered devices can do a vast number of things, driven by app-like abilities called “skills.” They can enable you to play games, listen to soothing sounds, enjoy an audio book, follow exercise ...

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With the voice commands "Alexa Skills," users can load numerous extra functions onto their Amazon voice assistant. However, these Skills can often have security gaps and data protection problems, as a ...