California-based chipmaker DSP Group today confirmed it's partnered up with Amazon on a low-power Alexa chip that's smaller than a 10-cent coin, which third-party vendors will be able to take advantage of to embed the smart assistant in their own portable accessories.
Alexa for iPhone now lets you check the weather, get sports scores, control smart home accessories, ask questions and more—all by using just your voice.
Tired of using Siri on your Apple Watch? Is Amazon Alexa your preferred voice assistant? Now you can use Alexa on your wearable device, courtesy of the new Voice in a can app.
Forget the eerie laugh. For a family in Portland, Oregon, an Amazon Echo device has become no laughing matter. Not only did one of the best-selling smart speakers in their home record their conversations, but it also sent those recordings to someone without the family’s permission. The alleged episode makes you wonder whether companies like Amazon are serious about privacy when it comes to smart home devices.
There's a new leader in the growing smart speaker market. During the first quarter of 2018, Google overtook Amazon for the top spot. Meanwhile, Apple's nowhere to be found in the new Canalys survey of the top smart speaker producers in the world, suggesting it might be awhile before the HomePod maker makes a mark in the emerging product category.
Amazon has developed a powerful new facial recognition technology, reports ACLU NorCal. The service is called "Rekognition," and it analyzes people in real time, quickly scanning information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces. It's capable of recognizing up to 100 people in a single image, and the scary part is that Amazon markets the service to law enforcement and is actively helping governments deploy it.
As most of you are probably aware of by now, Amazon Prime is going up in price this week. On Friday, Amazon is raising the subscription price of its popular Prime service from $99/year to $119/year. That's not a huge bump, but for those wondering how to avoid the hike, iDB has you covered.
Amazon now has over a hundred million Prime members.
Many smart home vendors are reportedly building homes that prioritize accessories that work with the smartphone assistant Alexa while deemphasizing accessories that are compatible with Apple's HomeKit framework for the connect home.
Seemingly out of nowhere, Amazon looks set to acquire Ring.
“Alexa lost her voice! How's that even possible?” a puzzled Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asks an engineer in a new 30-second teaser advertisement released ahead of Super Bowl LII.
Amazon has finally updated its pretty great Kindle app for iPhone and iPad with support for the edge-to-edge OLED display panel powering your iPhone X's Super Retina display.