Alexa brings a vast amount of skills to its Echos. Add basic home security to the list. With Alexa Guard enabled on a first-party Echo smart speaker, it can use its microphones for good. In this case, ...

Amazon Alexa has been around for the better part of a decade, and can do everything from updating you on the weather, to controlling your smart home products, to allowing you to shop for essentials on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Echo is one of Amazon's most iconic items. This smart speaker comes built-in with the company's Alexa assistant, providing similar ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...

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