While third-party skills get relegated to a sub-menu While third-party skills get relegated to a sub-menu is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, ...

Dozens of the best Amazon Echo and Fire TV Alexa commands. Others are available in the More menu of the Alexa app Alexa isn't just a speaker, it's a whole box of awesome waiting to be opened. Grab ...

One of Alexa’s biggest competitive advantages is its catalog of more than 40,000 skills, leveraging third-party services to provide additional capabilities to users of Amazon’s voice assistant. One of ...

At Amazon's Alexa Live developers' event last month, the agent's steward took up the mantle of improving skill discovery. A perennial challenge in many marketplaces and an exceptional bane of many ...

Amazon on Thursday launched a new service aimed at Alexa developers that automatically provisions and helps them to manage a set of AWS cloud resources for their Alexa skill’s backend service. The ...

Just picked up an Amazon Echo device? Then you'll be itching to discover what it can do. Play music? Check. Answer questions? Check. But as the 30 best Alexa skills (skills being similar to apps), ...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has a new trick: transmitting secure patient information between patients and caregivers. Developers can now use the Alexa Skills Kit to build HIPAA-compliant apps, ...

Amazon Alexa had a good year as a developer platform – at least in terms of the number of voice apps being built for Alexa, if not yet the monetization of those apps. According to new data published ...

Even the smartest virtual assistants aren't all that smart. Google's Assistant, Samsung's Bixby, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri can handle a lot of tasks, but they're limited to certain commands and ...

Every few months, I take a hard look at Amazon Echo and catch up on the latest skills. If you’re not familiar with skills, these programs give Alexa new tricks. What’s interesting is that individuals ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...