amazon echo
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Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa
More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its digital assistant by supercharging it with AI and charging you for…
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How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It’s a Lot)
Here’s a fun thought experiment; picture the amount of personal data you think tech companies keep on you. Now, realise it’s actually way more than that (hmm, maybe this isn’t that fun). Even as privacy and security become more talked about in consumer tech, the companies behind our favourite products are collecting more and more of…
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10 Privacy Settings Every Amazon User Should Enable Right Now
Amazon is so deeply entrenched in our lives that we all have a ton of info connected with the company. Even if you somehow haven’t directly used Amazon for shopping, you probably have used a Kindle, an Echo, or simply asked Alexa a question or two.
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How to Initiate Your Alexa Routines by Using Different Phrases
Custom Routines are one of the handiest features of the Amazon Echo — you can use them to launch a cascade of home automation actions before bed or play specific media each morning — all in response to a single request. And now Alexa can respond to up to seven unique phrases per routine (versus…