Amazon's AI-powered Alexa offers new and improved features for just about every user. Here's how to get started and whether you should buy a new Echo device to try it out.

Amazon showed me its new Alexa Home Theater surround sound system, which synchronizes and automatically configures multiple Echo Dot Max or Echo Studio speakers to work with your TV.

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With the new premium $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro, you can say "Alexa, find my remote" into any Echo device you own (or the dedicated Remote Finder button in the Fire TV app) to play a sound from your ...

Alexa Plus hasn’t changed anything for me; it’s just made my smart home (mostly) easier to manage. It still feels like pieces and parts, not a cohesive whole being run by an intelligent machine. Many ...

When someone's at your doorstep, Alexa+ can size up your visitors and tailor its greetings depending on whether it recognizes them. Also: Ring cameras go 4K, at last.

Amazon wants Alexa+ to handle your life, but it's running into more privacy scares than any other AI tool around you. It must set a new precedent, or risk widening the trust problem.

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Google and Apple speakers pair easily with Home Assistant, while Alexa speakers require a complex setup that didn't work in ...

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To help, Amazonacquired a startup called Bee in August. That company developed a wristband that can record a person’s day and send theuser a summary to a phone app. Though Amazon didn’t discuss the ...