Amazon has given me a precious gift: infinite new ways to troll my family and house guests with Alexa. On Thursday, the company released a set of DIY apps for the voice-assistant that anyone can make.

These days, it seems like everyone has a Google Home or Amazon Echo installed in their home. We rely on these devices to do just about everything for us, and, more often than not, they deliver. Alexa ...

Smart speakers do a great job of making simple tasks around the house easier. Control the brightness or color of your lights, change the thermostat temperature, control multiple alarms and timers and ...

So you've finally nailed your sleep routine. Congratulations! Lights dimmed, white noise on, alarm set for the wake-up time that gives you five perfect REM cycles — you're about to be well-rested to ...

Customize the Alexa experience by cooking up your own Q&As for Amazon's digital assistant. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of personal tech. He loves watching old ...

Your Amazon Echo device is already pretty customizable in terms of what skills you add to it. What you may not realize is if you don’t find a skill out there that’s quite what you’re looking for, you ...

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa offers new and improved features for just about every user. Here's how to get started and whether ...

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