Amazon is experimenting with a different Echo name, and it's one that's so perfect I wish they'd just do it today.

Amazon’s smart speakers have been called Echo since the first one launched in 2014. Every subsequent smart speaker and ...

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa ...

Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally ...

Alexa is about to echo everything you say to her to Amazon. Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn’t sent to Amazon’s ...

CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its Alexa smart home devices. Today ...

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word ...

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away ...

According to Amazon, "Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized – and she helps you get things done." Alexa+ is currently in Early Access, but only on a select few Echo Show devices ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that will allow virtually all voice requests to go to the company's cloud. The company's cloud-based voice service ...