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Is Amazon Alexa down? It’s probably not just you

If you’re wondering whether Amazon Alexa is down or if it’s just you, there’s an easy way to check. On the morning of 20 ...

Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT and more taken down by major AWS outage

A major Amazon Web Services outage resulted in many different platforms and services being taken down for many users ...

Your Amazon Echo does more than tell the time: 5 features you haven’t tried yet

Most people use Alexa for basic requests, but Echo devices can do much more. From home safety to daily time savers, here are ...

Is Amazon Alexa down? Thousands report issues amid AWS outage

Amazon’s Alexa was one of the many tech services impacted by a major Amazon Web Services outage that started Monday morning, Oct. 20.

The most important Alexa voice commands you can use with your Amazon Echo

You can use Alexa commands to play music, check the weather, order food, and even turn on your living room lights.

Yes, Alexa can identify songs that it's playing for you — here's how to do it manually, or set Alexa to identify automatically

Your Alexa-enabled smart speaker can identify songs, but you'll need to say a specific phrase: "Alexa, what song is this?" ...
Ars Technica

Alexa’s survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices

Amazon’s voice assistant is hanging on by a thread. And that thread is generative AI—or, in Amazon’s case, Alexa+. Amazon hasn’t had a problem getting people to buy cheap, Alexa-powered gadgets.