Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship
The Callisto console will be tested in NASA’s Orion capsule. (Amazon / Lockheed Martin / Cisco Illustration) Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s…
Amazon Super Bowl ad stars Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost — and Alexa as a mind reader
It would look like Amazon’s Alexa is studying your mind when she mechanically orders extra bathroom paper or activates the lights at a particular time. However a…
GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s Alexa is going to space, and more news from the final frontier
Alexa, open the pod bay doors. Amazon’s voice assistant hasn’t quite reached the level of HAL, the iconic AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, we learned…
NFTs, Metaverse, Web3, and new realities of startup investing, with Founders Co-op’s Aviel Ginzburg
Founders’ Co-op Common Accomplice Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Picture) A lot of what occurs within the startup world comes from serendipitous moments, random interactions that result in…
Lawsuit alleges Amazon uses Alexa interactions for ad targeting without users’ knowledge or consent
(Nicolas J Leclercq Photo via Unsplash) Amazon’s Alexa is the target of a new lawsuit alleging that the company is using information gathered from users of its…
Amazon previews Alexa capability that synthesizes a person’s voice from less than a minute of audio
Rohit Prasad, Alexa AI senior vice president and head scientist, discusses the voice synthesis technology at Amazon re:MARS LAS VEGAS — A short video of a child…
Amazon aims to take Alexa automation to the next level with new ambient home developer kit
Amazon’s new developer kit will let third-party developers create new ‘ambient’ automations in connection with Alexa. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) When you leave home and arm…