How to make your own Alexa skills
Learn how to build your own Alexa skills with Amazon's tools. You can even share your new skills with friends or publish them to the Alexa Skills Store......»»
Celebrate Fourth of July with these patriotic Alexa skills
Wondering how you can use your smart home to express your patriotism? Use these Alexa skills......»»
Smart earbud will measure how astronauts sleep
Sleep is important for our health and well-being, and bad sleep can negatively impact our attention span, memory, decision-making skills, creativity and judgment......»»
How to find ghosts with Alexa (and other scary skills)
Far more than a smart home controller, many Alexa devices can also be used for some truly ghoulish fun. Here are some of our favorite frightening Alexa skills......»»
Clashes of inference and perspective explain why children sometimes lose the plot in conversation
Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation often do so because they cannot combine two key communicative skills until surprisingly late in their development, researchers have found......»»
RangeForce platform updates enable users to conduct offensive and defensive attack scenarios
RangeForce announced it has enhanced its team threat exercises platform with new capabilities that make it easier for organizations to accelerate the skills development of their security teams through multi-user detection and response exercises of em.....»»
Custom touch screen application used to study navigation in chimps
A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers describe the custom applicati.....»»
I followed Alexa’s all of prompts for a day and this is what I learned
The Echo Show delivers prompts and news items during the day. Just how tailored are they to your preferences? We did everything it says for a day to find out......»»
Amazon’s Alexa Will Soon be Able to Use a Dead Person’s Voice
Amazon unveiled the technology at its annual re:MARS event, which centers machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. The post Amazon’s Alexa Will Soon be Able to Use a Dead Person’s Voice appear.....»»
Amazon"s Creepy New Alexa Tech Impersonates Deceased Loved Ones
Alexa's newest feature, dubbed creepy by some but heartwarming by others, will allow users to hear the voices of deceased loved ones. Alexa's newest feature, dubbed.....»»
Amazon Alexa will be able to mimic deceased loved ones" voices
The latest iteration of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant could sound eerily familiar......»»
How to fix Alexa not connecting to the internet
Smart devices that get disconnected from the internet can lose a lot of functionality. Here's how to fix that if it happens to your Echo device......»»
Amazon uses kid’s dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake
Amazon taps emotional woes of pandemic, grief to push developing Alexa feature. Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. (credit: Amazon) Amazon is figuring out how to make its Alexa voice assistant deepfake the vo.....»»
Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voices of anyone alive or dead
Amazon has revealed that they are working on a new feature for Alexa that will allow the digital assistant to mimic the voice of anyone. The post Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voices of anyone alive or dead first appeared on Phandroid......»»
Amazon feature has Alexa speaking in voice of late relative
Whether you find it comforting or creepy depends on your disposition, but Amazon has found a way to get Alexa to speak in the voice of a deceased relative......»»
Alexa Will Soon Be Able To Read Stories As Your Dead Grandma
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: At its annual re:Mars conference today in Las Vegas, Amazon's Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, Rohit Prasad, announced a spate of new and upcoming features for the company's smar.....»»
Solution to cybersecurity skills gap largely sits with hiring practices
(ISC)² published findings from its 2022 Cybersecurity Hiring Managers research that shed light on best practices for recruiting, hiring and onboarding entry- and junior-level cybersecurity practitioners. The research, reflecting the opinions of 1,25.....»»
The best Alexa commands
Unboxed an Amazon Echo and looking for the best Alexa commands? Learn how you can utilize your new virtual assistant to its full potential with our guide......»»
Speed dating skills can kickstart business relationships between entrepreneurs and mentors
The connection start-up entrepreneurs and potential mentors build during their very first "date" plays an important role in determining whether a mentoring relationship develops......»»
SwitchBot Curtain with Alexa makes any curtains smart for $99
There are thousands of great smart home devices with Alexa out there these days. Tens of thousands, even. But how many of them will actually wow you? The answer will obviously vary depending on who you ask, but the list is typically pretty short. Tod.....»»
US prison labor programs violate fundamental human rights, new report finds
Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to build skills for careers after release, according to a comprehensive nationwide report rele.....»»