I added Gemini to Alexa+ and was surprised by how much more control and customization it unlocked — here’s what actually ...

The worldwide AI craze set its sights on voice assistants in 2025. This year, it arrived at both third-party and primary voice assistants, including Google (Google Assistant is now becoming Gemini for ...

Amazon introduced the world to Alexa in 2014, but “her” real coming-out party was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2017. Since then, Alexa has been warmly invited into our homes, with more ...

It's become a sort of holiday in its own right -- Panic Day, perhaps, or Alexa Saves the Day. Every year, the Sunday before Mother's Day, I ask with great trepidation, "Alexa, is today Mother's Day?" ...

Amazon's Alexa is handy, but connecting it with If This Then That (IFTTT) lets you do so much more. Here's how to get started, along with some of our favorite applets. I’m PCMag’s home theater and ...

When Amazon launched its Alexa voice assistant, it envisioned a computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it. If you buy something from a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Every morning for the last four months, an alert has popped up on my phone between 4AM and 6AM, saying, “First ...

There are tons of reasons to use a smart speaker and digital assistant, like Amazon's Alexa. Whether you're streaming music, catching up on the day's headlines or taking control of your smart home, ...

Amazon's Alexa is a powerful virtual assistant that can fulfill a slew of roles in your daily life. Through a mobile app and the Amazon Echo series of devices, you can play music, hear the latest news ...

Amazon's engineers are tweaking Alexa's algorithm to help the virtual assistant guess users' requests, and offer to resolve them, before the demand is even uttered. After being asked, for example, how ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The new, large language model-fueled version of Alexa is ...