Alexa Ilacad opens up on how she felt about her first-ever “Your Face Sounds Familiar” win, her preparations for her Britney Spears impersonation, and her showdown with her “Battle of One Icon” rival ...

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The performance of skilled behaviors requires a balance between consistency and adaptability. Although the neural mechanisms that regulate this balance have been extensively studied at systems and ...

When you're setting up your new Alexa device, there are three spots you should never put it. Here's why -- and what places ...

In many homes, Alexa mostly plays songs, sets timers and gives the weather. That is nice, but it can do a lot more with very little effort from you. With a few small routines and simple voice lines, ...

If you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you probably already know you can ask it to make a grocery list, give a weather forecast, or ponder the meaning of life. What you might not realize is that you ...

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If you’re seeking to make your home smarter, odds are you’re in between two smart home ecosystems, Amazon Alexa versus Google Home. Both Amazon Alexa- and Google Assistant-enabled devices can help ...

Amazon is transforming home theater setups and turning them into surround sound systems via Alexa's new update for Echo Dot ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...