Amazon added a new adults-only “Sassy” mode for Alexa+, giving the assistant a more sarcastic tone that can use some explicit language. Despite the edgy branding, it still has Amazon’s normal ...

Alexa just got a little more… mouthy. Amazon announced this week that its revamped AI assistant Alexa+ is getting a brand-new personality — and this one isn’t exactly sugar and spice. The company is ...

In the 10 months since Billy Joel retired from touring after learning he’d been diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, reports that he’s handling it all well ...

Amazon launched a new adults-only ‘Sassy’ personality for Alexa+ that features playful sarcasm, mild profanity, and humorous roasts of users’ smart home setups. This age-gated mode requires identity ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A Texas mother removed her Amazon Alexa device from her home after the AI assistant asked her four-year-old daughter what she was wearing during a routine interaction, prompting ...

Alexa has long offered options for different voices and, at one time, you could even make the assistant sound like a celebrity. But now Amazon is going beyond voices by rolling out the choice of three ...

Alexa responds with “All systems operational” in the new Brief personality mode on an Echo Show. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Tired of Alexa’s constant chatter? Wish Amazon’s voice assistant would ...

Alexa Plus now offers three new personalities to choose from, in addition to the original tone. Brief delivers direct answers, Chill offers a more relaxed response, and Sweet gives you a warmer vibe.

All smart speakers nail the basics like timers, weather forecasts, music, and voice commands, but the differences show up once a real setup starts to form across multiple rooms. Amazon Alexa and ...

We use Amazon's Echo device at my house, mainly for voice control of our smart home devices like lights. Recently, Amazon introduced their new and improved Alexa service called Alexa+, which is ...

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps. I took the new feature for a spin, and it does work. Alexa+ did a good job ...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy writes at The Verge: I’ve used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding items by voice anywhere ...