When Amazon’s latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a feature the company spent time hyping during its fall devices event was missing. Alexa Home Theater arrived in late November, allowing owners ...

The first step toward building a smart home is deciding which smart home platform to use. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are two of the best on the market, offering support for hundreds of third-party ...

Sure, Apple and Google's smart speakers have beautiful aesthetics compared to the Amazon Echo Dot. But walk into any store selling smart home gear and check the box. "Works with Alexa" appears on ...

Panos Panay, Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, talks about Alexa+ at the launch event in New York earlier this week. At an event in New York City this week, Amazon launched the ...

Alexa users will be able to access content from third-party skills on the Echo Show home screen later this year, under a new developer feature announced by Amazon today. (Amazon Photo) Amazon will ...

Our kids' room has its own routine. When we say, "Alexa, it's bedtime," their sound machine turns on (powered by a smart plug), their bedside lamp switches off, and their smart light strip turns on to ...

We’ve been an Amazon Alexa family since the company started releasing products, but Amazon’s announcement of a new and improved Alexa — named Alexa+ — has us questioning how much longer we want to be ...

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ has improved smart home controls and conversation abilities, but the Alexa app is still buggy.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With 100 million Matter-enabled Echos and the fourth-gen smart speaker as a Thread border router, it should now ...

Alexa can respond to snoring, coughing, a baby crying or a dog barking. Here's how to set up sound detection, plus why you'd even want to. Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at ...

If you’re seeking to make your home smarter, odds are you’re in between two smart home ecosystems, Amazon Alexa versus Google Home. Both Amazon Alexa- and Google Assistant-enabled devices can help ...