The 25 best Alexa skills
Alexa sure has plenty of talents to share. Here are some of our favorite Alexa skills and how to use them......»»
Early Prime Day Deal: Get the Amazon Fire 7 tablet for $30 today
This Amazon Fire 7 tablet Prime Day deal brings the price of the Alexa-powered mobile device down to just $30, after a $20 discount to its sticker price of $50......»»
Amazon Echo Show 5 just crashed to new cheapest-ever price
Grab an Alexa-powered smart display for cheap with this Echo Show 5 Prime Day deal, which brings the device's price down to its lowest-ever -- $35, from $85......»»
Apple interview questions range from the technical to the philosophical
A piece on how to land a job with the most desirable tech company in the world provides some interesting examples of Apple interview questions. It outlines the soft skills the company looks for, warns what not to do on your resume, walks you through.....»»
How to get sports updates from Alexa
Eager for the latest sports updates? A word to Alexa can get you scores, wins, and more. Here's how to give sports commands and how to personalize your updates......»»
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.....»»