It’s something of a departure for Amazon. Though the company has previously offered some higher-end hardware, including the Echo Studio speaker and Kindle Scribe reader-notebook combo ...

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 ...

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

The Echo Show 5 combines the power of Alexa with a compact 5.5-inch screen, and it is on sale at Amazon.

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

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 ...

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...