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Alexa Told A Little Girl To Stick A Penny In An Electrical Outlet! WTF?!

Alexa is a helpful device to have around, generally speaking — but she apparently has a sinister side, too! That side was exposed to a very concerned parent who overheard the Amazon product daring her 10-year-old daughter to stick a penny into a live electrical outlet last week. According to the BBC, Kristin Livdahl’s daughter […]

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Alexa suggests 10-year-old put a penny on partially exposed plug

Enlarge (credit: WichienTep | Getty Images) A 10-year-old girl and her mother got a lesson about the utility of voice assistants after Amazon’s Alexa suggested the girl try the TikTok plug challenge. According to the girl’s mother , Kristin Livdahl, the dangerous suggestion came after her daughter asked Alexa for a challenge to do. (credit: […]

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Amazon launches its first self-branded smart TVs and a new 4K Fire TV Stick

Amazon’s new Omni Series 4K Fire TV set. [credit: Amazon ] Amazon on Thursday announced its first self-branded smart TVs and a new 4K streaming media player called the Fire TV Stick 4K Max. The tech giant has previously partnered with Best Buy to sell various Toshiba and Insignia TVs that run Amazon’s Fire TV […]

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Passwords in Amazon Echo Dots live on even after you factory-reset them

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so , as the corporate behemoth says , users can “remove any… personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding all of them. But researchers have recently found that the digital […]

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Hands-on: Echo Show 8 is like a tablet grafted onto a smart speaker

Enlarge / Thanks for the suggestion, Alexa—it just might be time to revist Ferris and friends this weekend. Oh, yeah! (credit: Jim Salter) Amazon’s newly redesigned Echo Show 8 offers a form factor with a ton of potential. The relatively small smart speaker/display combo is roughly the size and shape of a small Kindle Fire […]