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Alexa skill developers will now be able to sell “consumables” within their voice apps, aka Alexa skills, Amazon announced this morning. The company…

The launch of the Amazon Echo and its voice service, Alexa, brought virtual assistants out of our smartphones and into our homes and offices. While…

Enlarge / Skype calling on Alexa hardware.Later this year you’ll be able to say “Alexa, call Mom on Skype” and have Amazon’s digital assistant…

Amazon wants to make it easier to set up your smart home. Today at its hardware event, the company introduced a new Smart Plug device that brings…

Amazon keeps rolling out new Alexa devices this morning at its event in Seattle. And just now, the company announced the launch of a new Alexa…

As Amazon noted at today’s event, the company has already been working with a number of car companies to bring Alexa to vehicles. There are already…

Main image: Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. About half of the country’s 18 million people speak Kazakh. Credit: Alex J. Butler via Flickr, CC BY…

Microsoft has revealed that Skype is coming to Alexa devices. The partnership between Microsoft and Amazon means that owners of devices in Amazon’s…

“Alexa, how are you feeling?” I said to my Amazon Echo this week, partly out of curiosity, and partly to model for my kids how we can still be nice…

Amazon’s big hardware event isn’t all about hardware — although there is plenty of that, too. Amazon also talked about how it’s making its…