On March 28, some Amazon Echo users will lose their ability to withhold sending their stored voice recordings to the company’s cloud storage system. With the rollout of Alexa+, the company’s ...

Amazon is curtailing a privacy-minded feature that will affect owners of certain Echo devices. In an email sent last Friday to a number of customers, Amazon revealed that as of March 28, it will ...

The Amazon Echo Pop is a compact, budget-friendly smart speaker that offers Alexa's voice assistant features in a smaller, more affordable design (Amazon) Amazon will remove one of the key ...

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the ...

Amazon shows off Alexa+'s ability to order food on users' behalf with a single prompt. Just know your inane recipe ideas are being heard aloud by Amazon. © Kyle Barr ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that will allow virtually all voice requests to go to the company's cloud. The company's cloud-based voice service ...

Smart speakers can be a real help in our homes. Baking cookies? Alexa, set a 15-minute timer. Left the game on in the living room? Alexa, turn off the TV. And, of course, Alexa, tune in to NPR. You ...