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Newsy, the E.W. Scripps-owned OTT channel, Tuesday joined the growing ranks of news outlets offering news briefings on Amazon’s voice-enabled Alexa platforms such as Amazon Echo. The millennial-oriented Newsy will distribute regular updates on top stories via Flash Briefings – pre-recorded shorts furnished by participating news organizations. Last week, NBC Owned Television Stations became the first […]

If you haven’t heard about Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, and its incarnation as the Echo consumer device, you should definitely check it out. Alexa is a centerpiece of Amazon’s Smart Home push, and quickly growing to become one of the most promising attempts at making a successful Smart Home hub, connecting all other devices around

Updated: Jun 20, 2016 – 5:55 PM Thousands of people around Washington State can now say “what’s the news” out loud and hear a 2-minute update from KIRO 7 Anchors. KIRO 7 is now on Alexa, the cloud-powered woman’s voice that’s the brains behind the Amazon Echo, Dot, Tap, and Fire TV. Our anchors will

Here’s something interesting for those of you who’ve gone head-first into the smart home craze. According to ZatsNotFunny, a blog dedicated to connected home tech, Logitech is recruiting beta testers for a new tool integrating Harmony remotes with the voice control features of Amazon Alexa/Echo. Basically, users who have both should be able to speak

Phones are becoming the hubs of our entire lives. / © Google A phone isn’t a phone, and that’s important Your phone isn’t a phone. It’s a computer with a phone app inside it – and for more and more of us, it’s become our primary computing device. Sure, you’ll do stuff on your PC,

I haven’t been shy about my love for the Amazon Echo. I wake up with it, and aside from my phone, computers and TV, it’s one of the gadgets I rely most on most throughout the day. So when Amazon announced the $90 Echo Dot, which brings all of its larger sibling’s features to any

Stay Connected with Us! Follow TechnoBuffalo The Amazon Echo has been racking up skills at an impressive pace, and the next feature it adds should really appeal to the couch potato in all of us. The company is apparently set to add support for Logitech’s Harmony remote, making it possible to control your TV with voice commands.

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NBC is now the first broadcast network to develop and launch a skill for Amazon’s Alexa, allowing fans to easily find up-to-date information on their favorite NBC shows such as “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Blindspot,” “Shades of Blue,” and “The Voice.” In addition to the newly launched skill, NBC also

Image source: Apple. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled some notable changes to its Siri voice assistant at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week. The company is finally opening up Siri to third-party app developers so that you can tell Siri to send a message to a friend through WeChat and it’ll be able to do just