Here's what to know about the assistants running your home . . . your car . . . your phone Google Assistant and Amazon's ...

Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches “over the next few weeks.” Users will no longer be able to use ...

AI-powered personal assistants have become essential in our fast-paced lives, helping us manage tasks, control smart devices, ...

Amazon certainly sees a future in there. After giving a massive overhaul to Alexa and introducing a ... It allows the virtual assistant to browse the web on behalf of users and get chores done.

Amazon will start Alexa's March revival with the virtual assistant ahead in the numbers, but not by much. About half of US adults have used a home voice assistant since Jan. 1, and Alexa ranked at ...

The new avatar of Amazon's in-house virtual assistant is turbocharged by generative ... and there's no way to disable that exchange. Amazon's Alexa devices haven't maintained a squeaky-clean ...

Amazon is removing a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers that one tech expert has called ‘absolutely unforgivable’. Some devices can process voice requests locally – ‘on-device’ – so all ...

Let’s get started. For the most part, we recommend Google Assistant, Gemini, or Amazon Alexa, as they are the top of the pantheon along with Siri on iOS. You can also get Google Home and Amazon ...

You thought your little Alexa devices were ... with dystopic portents — Amazon is changing it so that none of the requests you make to the tiny-speaker-cum-virtual assistants can be stored ...

At a time when the idea of talking to a device felt futuristic, Amazon’s Alexa made it feel natural, even fun. From turning off the lights to setting timers for pasta, Alexa quickly became a virtual ...

This two-step change means Alexa users need to make a trade-off between privacy and functionality. Put simply, Amazon needs Echo devices to start making money. As US voice assistant expert Joseph ...