Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From tomorrow, Amazon will force all Echo users to send voice commands to the cloud (Getty) (Aleksia) This week, a 'rule change' ...

Amazon's virtual assistant allows you to control your smart home with voice commands, but is Alexa safe to use? Learn about Alexa privacy concerns and how to secure your Alexa device. Most of this is ...

Your smart speaker suddenly lights up during a conversation even though nobody said its wake word. You notice your device activating when you're certain you didn't call for it.These moments might feel ...

Amazon has announced that it will scrap a setting that currently allows some Amazon Echo users to store and process their Alexa requests locally. In other words, all Alexa voice recordings of some ...

If you have an Amazon Echo device, you know it responds to the wake word, "Alexa." But did you know it's always listening? And now, Amazon is making changes to how those recordings are handled, ...

This means voice recordings will be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud but will then be immediately deleted. That might sound good, but Amazon says voice ID won’t work with this setting, ...

Amazon is making a major change to how its Alexa devices handle user voice data. Starting Friday, the company will disable the privacy feature that previously allowed users to block their voice ...

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Alexa Plus inexplicably turned on a user’s light without being prompted. When the user asked the assistant why it turned on ...