You’ve got your newest Amazon Dot, Echo or Alexa enabled device. Now what? It’s time for Alexa to learn some skills! It may seem confusing at first, but skills ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...

David Priest is an award-winning writer and editor who formerly covered home security for CNET. But skills created by third-party developers and activated on the Alexa app can still bring real smarts ...

Amazon Alexa skills allow you to customize the artificially intelligent assistant to suit all sorts of needs. You can add new skills to Alexa from the mobile app, a ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Finding new ways to use Amazon’s Alexa has always been a bit of a pain. Amazon boasts that its ...

Don’t we all love streamlined processes? Like seriously, it can be quicker at times to ask a smart assistant to do something than having to do it ourselves on our smartphones. Well, Alexa’s becoming ...

Amazon debuted a subscription plan for Alexa, the e-commerce giant's voice-activated digital assistant, that will give third-party software developers a way to monetize skills, as applications for ...

Alexa Skills may have proved popular for adding new functionality to Amazon's virtual assistant, but the company is aiming to make the chatty smart home tech clever enough that users don't need to go ...

Amazon has fallen short of revenue targets for Alexa skills, according to a recent report. Despite the voice assistant’s popularity, it has yet to generate a killer app beyond basic voice controls.

Check Point researchers identified a gaping hole in Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant platform, that could leak a variety of personal data. The report should make marketers and developers who create ...

In another sign that Amazon is changing course with Alexa, the company has warned developers that it will soon stop paying them to build Alexa skills. As spotted by Bloomberg, Amazon posted a notice ...