All you need to do is say “Alexa, what are your deals?” and your device will read off several Amazon Prime-exclusive deals. You can also use your Echo to select one of these deals, purchase the item, and track the delivery of the product. When your shipment arrives, your Echo indic...
Customers admire the Echo Dot (3rd Gen) for its remarkable sound quality, user-friendly setup, and affordable price point. They appreciate its enhanced design and the convenience it brings to smart home management. While some users express concerns about the bass response and privacy issues, the...
What you need to know about the privacy of the new smart camera Amazon wants you to put in your bedroomAvery Hartmans
As many know, Amazon already owns numerous high-profile companies, including Zappos, Whole Foods, Ring, and Eero, among others, and additionally offers a wide array of its own connected digital devices like Alexa, Echo, and Fire TV and Tablets, which each allow Amazon (...
The Amazon Echo Show devices add a display to the Amazon Echo smart speakers, which are helpful in several ways. You can ask Alexa to play a tutorial while you’re in the middle of doing something, you can watch streaming shows while waiting for your food to cook, and so much more. ...
Besides, if you’re buying an Echo, security and privacy probably aren’t too high on your list anyway. Google and Apple are both betting that the evolution of the smart speaker is in higher-fidelity sound, an area that Amazon has conspicuously ignored, leaving that slice of the market to...
Smart assistants like the Amazon Echo are incredibly useful devices, but they are also potential privacy concerns. When you give away or sell your smart assistant, you can’t just reset it on your phone. You need to perform a hard reset that will complet
Amazon has fixed a potential exploit discovered by Checkmarx. The latter's researchers said that Alexa could possibly keep tabs on you even if you were totally unaware that malicious outsiders were turning your Echo into ...
Although Amazon’s Echo range is still going strong, it wasn’t long before other big tech names made a play for a slice of the smart home pie. These days there’s fierce competition from theApple HomepodandGoogle Home,as well as a whole host of third party speakers. ...
and pockets. We're aware, but unconcerned, that they're listening to us. It's a peculiar privacy paradox. We wouldn't agree to have our private conversations recorded by a stranger, so why is it okay to have an Echo Dot or two in the house, or a Google Home Mini in the bedroom?