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 October, starting at around 8am BST, complaints of an Alexa outage began to appear.

An Amazon Web Services outage caused some consumers to go without their early morning Starbucks mobile order and Wordle.

Amazon showed me its new Alexa Home Theater surround sound system, which synchronizes and automatically configures multiple Echo Dot Max or Echo Studio speakers to work with your TV.

We attended Amazon's February announcement of a massive Alexa AI upgrade with great interest. The new service, called Alexa Plus, promised us conversational AI to set reservations, learn what we like, analyze home video for us and control our smart ...

Amazon is set to release an upgraded artificial intelligence version of home assistant Alexa later this month. The update will rely heavily on generative AI, in a potentially high-risk, high-reward move from one of the industry's largest players, say Reuters.

If your Alexa device is blinking yellow, that means you have an unread message, and if it's flashing green, you have an incoming call.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you've been meaning to make your home smarter, one of the easiest ways to do so is by using a voice assistant like Amazon Alexa. Alexa-enabled devices are pretty budget-friendly and packed with ...

In late 2024, Amazon introduced Rufus, a generative AI chatbot that helps people shop. It was a curious move for Amazon since the company already has Alexa, which has become a household name at this point. However, there is a difference between the two, and Rufus doesn't act like Alexa in any way.