To achieve a smart home, you need a voice assistant to run it. A smart home assistant, usually folded into a smart speaker, ...

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Last year, Amazon held its Fall 2025 Event and announced it would be launching Alexa+, a more personalised and conversational version of its Alexa voice assistant. While it was originally launched ...

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Even though Alexa+ isn’t technically brand new, that didn’t stop many of us in the UK from getting a little excited when it finally arrived here a couple of weeks ago. Watching other countries get ...

Looks like Amazon’s getting back into the smartphone game. More than 11 years after the e-commerce giant pulled the plug on its failed first effort, the Fire Phone, the company is now developing a new ...

Amazon has released four different personality styles for Alexa+: Brief, Chill, Sweet and Sassy Amazon Amazon has released four different personality styles for Alexa+: Brief, Chill, Sweet and Sassy ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

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The youngest daughter of the “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum Lynne Curtin claims she is homeless and addicted to drugs. Alexa Curtin addressed her dire circumstances while speaking with the “L ...

Amazon’s redesign has made the shopping list feature mostly unusable, so I’ve switched to Apple’s Reminders. Amazon’s redesign has made the shopping list feature mostly unusable, so I’ve switched to ...

Alexa+ is a rebuilt version of Amazon’s assistant, powered by large language models from Amazon Nova and Anthropic. Unlike the older Alexa, which focused on short commands, Alexa+ is designed to ...