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GeekWire Radio: Amazon’s Alexa returns as our special guest
Amazon Alexa, housed in the Echo smart speaker, returns to answer our questions. One of the most popular guests ever…
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Amazon considered stricter privacy settings after criticism over handling of voice recordings
Dave Limp, Amazon’s devices and services chief, at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) After it faced…
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The Week in Geek: How Starbucks and Amazon are becoming more alike
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz at the company’s annual shareholders meeting this week. Starbucks announced several new tech-driven programs at the…
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Father, son and AI bonding: A conversation with Amazon’s Alexa and the family she has joined
Kurt Schlosser, his son Henry, and Alexa … via Amazon’s Echo Dot. (GeekWire Photo) A week after my 10-year-old son…
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The Week in Geek: A historic Echo-to-Echo call, a new direction for Windows, and tech’s ‘megalopolis’
GeekWire editor Todd Bishop prepares to make the first Echo-to-Echo call on a podcast. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Alexa,…
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Geared Up: Alexa from end to end, a hot-selling Elon Musk keepsake, and more crazy moments of 2018
Todd Bishop (left) and Andru Edwards (right) show Not A Flamethrower, from Elon Musk’s Boring Company. (GeekWire Photo / Clare…
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Paging Dr. Alexa: Hospitals call on voice assistants, envisioning ‘massive’ impact on healthcare
Voice assistants are coming to the hospital. Last month, Amazon Alexa announced a new skill that made the platform compliant…
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A reckoning for the gig economy: Why Amazon and Uber are facing new scrutiny over contract workers
Amazon announced its Delivery Service Partner network of independent package companies at an event last year in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo…
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Amazon expands Alexa’s horizons while attempting to alleviate consumer privacy concerns
Dave Limp, Amazon’s devices and services chief, introduces a new feedback feature for Alexa as part of the company’s fall…
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A glimpse of the future at CES: Celebs, parallel reality, and next-gen toilets at the big tech show
GeekWire’s Taylor Soper tests the latest in high-tech toilets, and virtual reality, at the Charmin booth at CES 2020. (GeekWire…
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