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Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word detection) ...

As of March 28, Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson ...

On March 28, some Amazon Echo users will lose their ability to withhold sending their stored voice recordings to the company’s cloud storage system. With the rollout of Alexa+, the company’s ...

Echo Dot smart speakers offer a range of handy features. You can play music, audiobooks, and podcasts from Amazon Music and other platforms, sync your phone up to it via Bluetooth, and use Amazon's ...

If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands. Users of Amazon's Echo smart speaker will soon receive an email ...

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision ...