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Amazon has unveiled a controversial feature that allows Alexa to recreate anyone’s voice—even if the individual is no longer living. The tech giant confirmed it was developing the system during it re:MARS conference Wednesday in Las Vegas. Alexa’s senior vice president Rohit Prasad highlighted the feature in a demonstration video, in which a child asks the voice assistant to […]
When a 10-year-old girl asked her Amazon Echo device for a “challenge to do,” the digital assistant Alexa suggested that she take a penny and put it on the prongs, the BBC reported. “Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” Alexa replied to the […]
Amazon launched an investigation after its Alexa device was accused of spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. According to TMZ, the issue was recently brought to light by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. The political group penned a letter to UK Amazon executives, pointing to several instances in which the virtual assistant had shared bigoted conspiracies when asked about about Jewish […]
If you’re using Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or some other virtual subordinate to call a business for you, then you may be opening yourself up to scammers adapting to an ever-dependent-on-technology-world, at least according to a warning from the Better Business Bureau. As the BBB describes it, the con could play out if you refer […]
Talk to holdouts opting not to buy into the smart speaker phenomenon and they’ll frequently offer the same reasoning for not purchasing an Echo or Google Home speaker: they’re worried someone might be listening. And a new report from Bloomberg suggests their paranoia is founded in facts. The report reveals that Amazon hires thousands of […]
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