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A federal judge has allowed millions of Alexa users to sue Amazon as a group, claiming the company secretly recorded private conversations without consent. Here's how you can protect yourself.
Amazon's Device and Services Lead Panos Panay sits down for a big conversation about Alexa+, Amazon, hardware, AI, AR, and his old home.
Today, I’m talking with Panos Panay, who’s in charge of devices and services at Amazon. That includes everything like Alexa, Ring security cameras, Eero Wi-Fi routers, and the Project Kuiper ...
While they were adding voice modes and starting to interact with our calendars and inboxes, Alexa was still stuck as being nothing more than a glorified egg timer that could talk.
How to change Alexa’s name Changing Alexa’s name is simple, but at the moment, you only have a few Amazon-sanctioned alternatives: Computer, Echo, Amazon, or Ziggy.
Whatever your reason, you can change Alexa’s name. Moreover, Amazon lets you change Alexa’s voice as well. You can choose between female or male voices and also choose from different accents.
Step 6: Confirm your changes. Amazon How to change Alexa’s voice with an Echo device In addition to language and dialect switch-ups, Alexa users can now choose between female- and male-speaking ...
Connect to Alexa by downloading the app The first step to setting up Alexa is to download the app for Android or iPhone. The first time you sign into Alexa, it’ll ask for your Amazon credentials.
Alexa voice assistant and Google Assistant, the voice assistant for Google home, are similar in many ways, but one is more likely to fit you based on the services you use.
Amazon has agreed to pay more than $30 million to settle two federal lawsuits alleging that the tech giant violated users' privacy - including that of children - through its Alexa voice assistant ...
Amazon has paid a cumulative $30.8 million (£24.8 m) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle two separate privacy cases over its Alexa voice assistant and its Ring cameras.