At an Alexa developer event, Amazon revealed some tools that will make it possible for developers to create Alexa routines and suggest them to users. With user permission, they can use the Alexa ...

I turned a Chuck E. Cheese game card into a physical Alexa trigger for my kids’ reminders — no screens, no nagging, just a ...

Coming to its Bosch 800 Series fully automatic espresso machines, the upgrade allows Alexa users to talk with the machine via ...

If you've got an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know how much fun having Alexa at your fingertips can be despite the risk to your privacy and security. Whether playing music, answering random ...

Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at CNET. Admit it. You're curious about Alexa routines. Maybe your friends or family sometimes show off their own home-brewed Alexa ...

Namely, you can now use person detection to fire off a set of commands as part of an Alexa routine. Think about lights that turn on and off depending on whether anyone is in the room. An air ...

Now, however, you can add multiple voice phrases to an Alexa routine, so instead of having to say “Alexa, let’s watch a movie” verbatim, you can also add alternate phrases such as “Alexa, let’s watch ...