Amazon gears up on Thursday (Feb. 15) to roll out the largest overhaul of its Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console since it launched in 2015. According to news from TechCrunch, the new console is being rebuilt to improve developers’ workflow by offering separate sections for developers...
Alexa has many valuable skills to share – a little over 25,000, to be precise. Need to know the weather, order up an Uber, get a Domino’s pizza delivered, order flowers, listen to a joke, sing a song or have someone read you a bedtime story? Alexa totally has your back. If...
Amazon is trying to compete better in the discount shopping space, where mobile apps like Wish dominate, by rolling out a section in its iOS app that hawks items priced at $10 and under. According to news from TechCrunch, the items cost $10 or less and...
Amazon Alexa has been finding its way into all sorts of devices – and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual tech conference held in Las Vegas in early January, Alexa is showing up in a pair of augmented reality glasses. According to a...
Amazon has expanded into cooking with its latest round of new skills, with the announcement on Thursday (Jan. 4) of the launch of the Smart Home Skill API. In a blog post, Amazon developer Mike Maas said that developers can now build skills to enable...
It looks like smart home technology — driven by the ever-increasing installed base of smart speakers — is igniting all around us. According to estimates from Forrester, the installed base of smart speakers will hit 244 million by 2022. A bold prediction, considering that as of...
Next up for Amazon’s Echo, powered by Alexa: voice and video calling. In an interview with CNBC, Rohit Prasad, VP and head scientist at Alexa Machine Learning, said the next hugely popular function on the Echo devices will be voice or video calling, in which...
Amazon is expanding the uses for Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, and will soon find its way into future BMW vehicles. According to a news report in TechCrunch, BMW is gearing up to have Alexa in the cockpit of some of its vehicles beginning next...
Amazon, the eCommerce giant that is in hiring mode in New York, is looking to add positions to one of its startups that puts videos into online shopping. According to a report from CNBC, one job posting was for Amazon Live, the video startup. The...
