The3rd-gen Fire TV Cubealso has a few new Alexa commands, like"Alexa, watch ESPN on cable"so that you don't have to manually change inputs on your TV, and if you have a compatible webcam that you can connect into the Fire TV Cube, you can say something like"Alexa, call dad"to ...
Worried about too much screen time, some parents are turning to audio content like podcasts and smart speaker games.
become my go-to shopping list maker, entertainment center while cooking, and assistant to control smart devices around my home. I use it to ask Alexa for the weather while I'm setting up the kids' backpacks on school nights and to run my smart home routines to turn on the backyard ...
This setting stops Alexa from playing any songs or podcasts containing profanity or other explicit content. It means that your grandma (or kids) won’t have to listen to Ice-T listing pretty much every profane word under the sun. Here’s how to enable or disable the explicit filter on Ale...
become my go-to shopping list maker, entertainment center while cooking, and assistant to control smart devices around my home. I use it to ask Alexa for the weather while I'm setting up the kids' backpacks on school nights and to run my smart home routines to turn on the backya...
Users may be happy, for example, to give up their own data while wanting their kids’ to be off limits. “Tech companies tend to design these products with this idea that it’s all or nothing,” she says. “I think that’s a really misguided way to approach it. People may want ...
Ask Alexa to pause the Wi-Fi on your kids’ devices for dinner or bedtime by simply saying, “Alexa, pause the Wi-Fi,” or “Alexa, pause Wi-Fi for Sarah’s tablet.” Alexa can manage your home’s Wi-Fi access on compatible eero and TP-Link routers today, with support for Arris...
For younger kids, Pinna partnered with Random House Children’s Books to turn the publisher’s popular Ron Roy book series, “A to Z Mysteries,” into a podcast. Mo Willems and Rick Riordan are among top names in the company’s audiobook lineup on Pinna, along with music from Kidz Bop...
For younger kids, Pinna partnered with Random House Children's Books to turn the publisher's popular Ron Roy book series, “A to Z Mysteries,” into a podcast. Mo Willems and Rick Riordan are among top names in the company's audiobook lineup on Pinna, along with music from Kidz Bop, ...
Timers are important for various tasks, from cooking in the kitchen to setting timeouts for unruly kids, and Alexa makes it easy to set one on your device. Just tell the virtual assistant the time for your timer, and it’ll set one up for you. When the time is up, Alexa will let ...