Enlarge / A group of Amazon Echo smart speakers, including Echo Studio, Echo, and Echo Dot models. (Photo by Neil Godwin/Future Publishing via Getty Images) T3 Magazine/Getty Images reader comments 92 with 72 posters participating, including story author Share this story Academic researchers have devised a new working exploit that commandeers Amazon Echo smart speakers ..
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reader comments 26 with 24 posters participating Share this story This Echo Show 8 is handling a group video call. The Echo Show has a privacy switch that turns off the camera and mic. This Echo Show 5 serves as a bedside clock when not called on for more advanced duties. The “Kids” version gets ..
reader comments 84 with 59 posters participating Share this story The new $199 Echo Studio speaker. It has two mics, three internal speakers, a directional tweeter, and 5.25-inch bass driver. The new $129 Amazon Echo Buds with Bose noise reduction. The updated $99 Echo speaker now has even better speaker hardware inside. A $59 version ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Echo smart speaker. reader comments 87 with 61 posters participating Share this story Amazon grew its Music Unlimited streaming service by more than 70% in the past year, according to data by Midia Research published by the Financial Times. The service currently has approximately 32 million subscribers. However, the report didn’t ..
Getty Images | wdstock reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued Verizon, alleging that the company promised free Amazon Echo devices and Amazon Prime subscriptions to new customers but failed to deliver the items after customers enrolled in two-year contracts. Verizon promised the incentives to customers who ..
Enlarge / Close-up of the base of an Amazon Echo smart speaker using the Alexa service, with Amazon logo visible, on a light wooden surface in San Ramon, California, May 31, 2018. (credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) On Friday, a local judge in New Hampshire ordered Amazon to hand over Echo recordings made the day a ..
Sam Machkovech SEATTLE—”Echo Dot is the best-selling speaker ever.” With that simple assertion, Amazon made no bones about its aspirations to keep making Echo-branded devices—and proceeded to unveil a significant number of voice-activated and connected-home products and technologies, with a mix of existing products and all-new ones. Read 13 remaining paragraphs | Comments https://arstechnica.com/..
Enlarge / The new Amazon Echo. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Analysts have been aggressively optimistic in their predictions about the growth of consumer shopping via virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, but a new report claims that only a small fraction of Alexa device owners shop with voice commands. And most of those who do only try ..
Enlarge / A Google Home smart speaker. Google surpassed Amazon in global smart speaker shipments in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report this week from research firm Canalys. Canalys says Google shipped 3.2 million Google Home and Home Mini speakers over the course of the quarter. Amazon, meanwhile, is said to have ..
Enlarge (credit: Jeff Dunn) Amazon confirmed an Echo owner’s privacy-sensitive allegation on Thursday, after Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO-7 reported that an Echo device in Oregon sent private audio to someone on a user’s contact list without permission. “Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” the user, Danielle (no last name given), was told by her husband’s ..