Amazon announced over a dozen brand new products last month at its hardware event in Seattle, such as the Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Auto, and even a smart microwave. In addition to new hardware, ...

If you’re tired of Alexa chiming in with a verbal confirmation every time you ask her to do something for you, you’re going to want to check out the new “Brief Mode” that Amazon just rolled out. When ...

Amazon’s Alexa is one of the main competitors to Google’s Assistant. At CES this year, Amazon and Lenovo announced their partnership in which they unveiled Show Mode for select Lenovo PCs. This ...

Alexa is getting less chatty, with Amazon reportedly testing a new "Brief Mode" which would cut down the assistant's confirmations to a simple beep. Although not yet officially announced by Amazon, ...

Show Mode offers an immersive hands-free Alexa experience for Fire tablets—just ask Alexa to show your calendar, video flash briefings, weather, timers, movie trailers, camera feeds, and more—with ...

If you value silence in your home, Alexa has not historically been the best addition to your household. Sure, she is helpful, but she’s also a bit verbose, often repeating your questions back to you, ...

Those of us with Echo devices are used to saying “Alexa” whenever we want to speak with Amazon’s voice assistant, but now there’s a way for you and anyone nearby to chat up Alexa without repeatedly ...

Amazon confirmed it’s rolling out an optional “Brief Mode” that lets Alexa users configure their Echo devices to use chimes and sounds for confirmations, instead of having Alexa respond with her voice ...

Amazon Alexa can be a terribly useful device, and yet many fear that it collects terrible secrets. Any time you place Alexa or any other “smart speaker/virtual assistant” in your home, you’re ...

Amazon's Alexa ecosystem encompasses a wide array of devices, from the original Echo, to Fire tablets, to the bedside Dot, to the magnetic Wand. What all of these devices have in common is one thing - ...

At Amazon’s Alexa event last month in Seattle, the company teased a new feature soon coming to its voice assistant: the ability to whisper. The company demonstrated how whispering a request – like ...

Amazon announced over a dozen brand new products last month at its hardware event in Seattle, such as the Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Auto, and even a smart microwave. In addition to new hardware, ...