“Alexa, can you fart?” King asks the virtual assistant, and the camera zooms in on Harrison, dressed adorably in little striped sweatpants and a shirt with cartoon animals. Smiling ear-to-ear, the ...

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 ...

Amazon ignored parents’ requests to delete their kids’ voice recordings from the Alexa voice assistant, federal officials say. Now, the company has agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit. A complaint ...

If you can't or simply don't want to talk to your Alexa assistant, you'll soon be able to text it instead. Amazon quietly rolled out the feature to iPhone users, enabling them to fire off a text ...

Amazon's engineers are tweaking Alexa's algorithm to help the virtual assistant guess users' requests, and offer to resolve them, before the demand is even uttered. After being asked, for example, how ...