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Amazon’s Alexa can be used for a variety of home tasks, but could it make your phone calls? Recode reports that Amazon is developing Alexa-based devices that would have the ability to be used as a phone-like intercom. The devices are still in beta and details on functionality — for example, how the devices would pair

How much excitement can one tech product – the voice-activated Amazon Echo and its smaller siblings Echo Dot and Tap – generate before the “don’t-believe-the-hype” syndrome also sets in? Thanks to a gangbuster holiday season, the installed base of Amazon’s smart home “virtual assistant” speakers, which answer to the wake-up call “Alexa,” then do your

This afternoon, President Trump went to see a 4th-grade class at St. Andrew Catholic School in Florida with Betsy Devos, Gov. Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and Ivanka. According to the pool report, Trump told one girl who wanted to start her own business, “That’s a good idea. Make a lot of money, right?

Amazon’s Alexa can already hail an Uber, order a pizza and organize your shopping list. Now she’s funding a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Amazon announced a partnership with the university Thursday to support a doctoral student at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Language and Speech Processing. Amazon’s Alexa is Amazon’s digital assistant,

Home automation is a growing trend with its roots in decades old wired technology. It is quickly becoming a child of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. While many of its components still host wired connections like their ancestors, much of the recent innovation is linked via AI-based virtual assistants. Here’s a look at some of the