Amazon updated the Tap with a hands-free mode that you must enable in the settings. The only wake word available to the Amazon Tap is Alexa. There's also a feature called Follow-Up Mode that makes ...

To use this setting, you’ll need to set up Alexa Guard which you can do through the Alexa app. When you leave the house, say “Alexa, I’m leaving” to activate Alexa Guard and if she detects ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of ...

[Ben] points to another of his blog pages for those readers interested in the nuances of setting up Alexa with a smart mirror, while concentrating on communication with the Hue bridge and creating ...

Now, you may be aware of the usual voice commands, like "Alexa play music" and "Alexa set a repeating alarm ... and even serve up some interesting trivia? And if you want take the giggles ...

Back then, Alexa was a delightfully useful toy that could play music, speed up searches for Amazon Prime Video content, and help out around the house by setting reminders and timers. Amazon added ...

Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant ... which is currently still used for a narrow set of simple tasks such as playing music and setting alarms, to an ...