Facebook Portal and Amazon Echo Show both use Alexa, have 10-inch screens, and offer up great entertainment options. Here's how to pick the right one for you.

A variety of speakers come with Alexa compatibility for voice commands and more -- you just need to set it up! Here's how to connect Alexa to your home theater.

You're a strong, independent (wo)man, so why depend on a security company to take care of your home? Just use the Abode starter kit instead.

In our Nucleus Anywhere Intercom review, we test the “Skype in a box” videoconferencing appliance and digital assistant that preceded Amazon’s upcoming Echo Show.

Despite its high price, the Honeywell Smart Home Security Starter Kit offers great value, bringing together home security, a network camera, and Alexa-enabled control in a comprehensive, easy-to-use package. We got a chance to test drive the system and came away mostly impressed.

In our Amazon Cloud Cam review, we explain why this addition to Amazon’s growing Alexa universe is one of its most valuable yet.

Do you want to start dictating your documents or text with your voice? Windows 10 Speech Recognition lets you voice-operate several tasks or apps on your PC.

Newer Lenovo ThinkPad, IdeaPad, and Yoga Lenovo laptops now have Alexa Show Mode --- an experience that can turn your PC into an Echo Show-like display.

Did you know Alexa can be the life of the party? Here's a rundown of some of the most entertaining questions and commands you can direct to your Alexa devices.

NASA has added its own skill to Amazon's AI-based assistant, marking the first time that the space agency collaborated with Alexa.

There's a way to stop Amazon from saving your Alexa recordings. Here’s how to stop Amazon from peering into your private life.

Smart plugs can make any plug-in device controllable with an app or voice commands. Here are some ideas on how to incorporate smart plugs into your life.

Alexa, Amazon's artificially intelligent voice assistant, is gaining the ability to keep track of upcoming tasks and label running timers.

Amazon's Alexa voice assistant is one of the most popular digital assistants on the market and IFA Berlin served as a prime opportunity for the company to showcase that growth. The software is now available on more than 20,000 devices, with more expected to hit the market soon.

Amazon's digital assistant provides some amazing services. However, as many parents have learned, it can also lead to some colossal bungles.

Voice assistants Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are improving all the time and are more powerful today than ever before. But which is superior?

Amazon announced a slew of new Alexa features geared towards kids during the Amazon Devices Event, including the new Echo Glow, a a multicolor smart lamp that pairs with Alexa, the Alexa Education Skill API pairs up with programs like Canvas, Kickboard, and Coursera, and a new FreeTime feature.

Ring's new Smart Greetings feature allows Alexa to answer the doorbell if you aren't at home.

Amazon's new feature lets you share your favorite music with friends. When listening to a song, just say "Hey Alexa, share this song" to beam it to a contact.

Type with Alexa allows you to command your smart assistant with text, not voice. It's still in early access, but already shows a lot of promise.

Advertisements are meant to grab your attention, and the new Alexa ad for the Super Bowl certainly does that, but maybe not in the way Amazon intended.

Many new cars come with helpful smarts. If your new vehicle has Amazon's Alexa digital assistant installed, here's what it can do.

Adding a smart lock to your home takes no time at all, and really only requires a screwdriver. Here's our step-by-step guide on how to install a smart lock.

Alexa studied up on sports last year to provide users with stats and trivia. Now she has her own favorite pick for the Super Bowl, but it's not her favorite team. Alexa thinks the Patriots will win, but prefers the Rams. Given her statistical knowledge, it's better not to bet against Alexa.

A new company is aiming to give Alexa the ability to tell stories about your own personal and family history by simply adding photos.

NPR discovered that one of its Listen Up segments about the Echo managed to trigger Amazon Echo's virtual assistant, Alexa, in a few listeners’ homes.

Some enterprising Alexa users were surprised recently to discover a previously unknown update to the intelligent assistant called "Answer Updates," an improvement that allows Alexa to file away questions she can't answer yet and inform users once she learns the answer.

An Amazon executive on Tuesday, November 13 revealed the huge size of the team tasked with developing the Echo, its smart speaker, and Alexa, the digital assistant that powers it. With the holiday shopping season approaching, Amazon's smart speaker goes up against similar offerings from Google and Apple.

Qualcomm Technologies is giving a major boost to smart home device manufacturers with a new addition to its popular mesh Wi-Fi networks. A new development kit is designed to enable the Amazon Alexa Voice Service in new devices with minimal time and financial investment.

Don't worry about unplugging your Alexa during Amazon's Super Bowl commercial out of concern the voice assistant might get triggered. The company is using acoustic fingerprinting to identify trigger words coming from other devices rather than people and will prevent Alexa from responding.

A new Amazon Alexa feature will translate a conversation between two people who communicate using different languages.

If you wish Alexa could follow you from room to room without requiring an Echo speaker to be hooked up wherever you are, well then your prayers have finally been answered. It was announced at CES 2019 that Temi, a personal robot butler that follows you around the house, now offers support for Alexa.

You've probably done your fair share of singing in the shower, but imagine if you could talk to your shower and have it respond. At CES 2019, Moen brought out its U by Moen technology that allows you to control every part of your showering experience through Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri.

If it feels like basically everything has Alexa built into it these days, well, you're right. The latest example is Auri, a smart home lamp that aims to meld concepts of wellness with modern technology to create a mood-improving lamp that just happens to have Alexa built right into it.

You’re probably not going to have a 146-inch TV on your wall in 2018, but these low-key CES 2018 announcements will almost certainly reshape the tech landscape.

Getting a good night's sleep often evades even the most capable of us. Here to help is Nokia, which has unveiled the Nokia Sleep mattress pad.

A selection of Klipsch's wireless speakers and amps will be supporting Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, in the near future.

Voiceitt, experts in speech recognition tools for people with atypical speech, has developed an app for Amazon Alexa.