Here’s the easy way to make your holiday lights display voice activated so you can turn it on or off with Alexa, Google or Siri! Sure, you could use an old-fashioned rotary timer to turn your holiday ...

In the weekly “What’s New With Alexa” email newsletter, Alexa owners can opt to receive an update of all the cool, useful, and sometimes irrelevant, ways that Alexa is growing up, so to speak. This ...

You can connect an Alexa device to smart lights in your house and set up context-aware lighting using the Alexa app. When you set up context-aware lighting, you can turn on all the lights in whatever ...

Deploying smart home technology is one of the more appealing promises of voice control systems like Alexa. It’s tempting (and maybe inevitable) to fall down a rabbit hole of complexity when you’re ...

Need help keeping track of upcoming appointments or how long that load of laundry has left? Just ask Alexa or open up the app for customized alerts. Do you need help juggling the many events, ...

This parrot knows how to get things done. Petra, an African grey parrot, instructs her family's Amazon Echo, Alexa, to turn on all the lights in the room. “Alexa, all the lights, all on,” she says and ...