First, we have to dispel the myth that your Amazon Echo records everything that is said near it. The device usually only reacts when it hears its wake word, Alexa (or the alternative wakewords ...

Amazon's Alexa is intended to be a helpful digital home assistant, setting timers, telling you the weather, and buying items off Amazon for you, among other things. Recently, however, Bloomberg ...

Alexa is Amazon's personal digital assistant, which lets you use your voice to control some of the easiest smart home devices available. It powers Amazon's Echo line of smart speakers and is included ...

With the rapid growth of technology over the last several years, privacy has become a hot-button issue in terms of security. Simply put, the idea that an Orwellian “Big Brother” presence in the ...

The convenience of Alexa is that you can ask her to perform tasks by prefacing your request with "Alexa ..." Your Alexa-enabled device is always listening for the key ...

Smart assistants such Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are now integrated into many of our lives. However, a common concern with Alexa relates to the device recording and storing users’ conversations.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's Alexa made a boo-boo this week. In a home in Portland, Alexa heard what she thought were a set of commands – to record a conversation ...

Back in 2018, an Amazon Echo device recorded a private conversation between a Portland, Oregon couple, and sent the conversation to one of the couple's contacts, according to Washington state news ...