You can also ask Alexa ridiculous questions.

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Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been around for over a decade now. But over the past few years, it’s felt like Amazon was neglecting its digital assistant. In my own home, I found it buggier and ...

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Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health patients can now use Amazon Alexa’s electronic personal assistant to find the nearest physician clinic, urgent care or medical center, Winston-Salem Journal ...

We’ve been an Amazon Alexa family since the company started releasing products, but Amazon’s announcement of a new and improved Alexa — named Alexa+ — has us questioning how much longer we want to be ...

We all remember those commercials from the 1980s where someone says, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” While those devices still exist, many people now rely on their smartphones to call for help. But ...