Amazon Echo

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Third-party app Josh will bring a few new skills (and different voices) to Amazon Echo

A third-party app called Josh builds upon Alexa to make Amazon's Echo and other voice-controlled systems even more powerful.

Alexa is making the one-time futuristic vision of the voice-controlled smart home a reality

Around The Home

One year on, Amazon's Alexa is quietly ushering in the smart home of the future

Throughout the 20th century, visions of the future imagined smart homes that could listen and respond to all our requests using voice. Amazon's Alexa is making that one-time futuristic vision of the voice-controlled smart home a reality.

Queiroz holding a Google Home at the 2016 Google I/O conference

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Google Home to bring search and more to thin air

Mario Queiroz, Google's Vice President of product management unveiled Google Home, one of the expected announcements at today's I/O event. Will it be an Echo killer?

Tap can go anywhere as a Bluetooth speaker but needs to be online for Alexa to work

Home Entertainment

Amazon Tap review: Take Alexa with you anywhere

We've spent a few weeks with the battery-powered version of the original Alexa device, the Echo, and have this review.

Tesla Model S owners now have autosummon capability

Automotive

Hacked Tesla pulled out of garage using Amazon Echo

A California developer hacked together a way to command his Tesla Model S to pull itself out of his garage using an Amazon Echo.

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Amazon's new Echo Dot and Tap make Alexa more portable ... sort of

Amazon wants to make it easier to add its voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, to any room in the home by offering a pair of new, smaller versions of Amazon Echo, the original tabletop Bluetooth speaker inhabited by Alexa.