Amazon's best-sounding Echo speaker got a redesign, better smart home features, and stronger performance. Here's everything ...

Does Alexa suddenly sound a little different on your Amazon Echo smart speaker? It’s not your imagination: Amazon is rolling out an upgraded version of its virtual assistant called Alexa+ to members ...

It’s a strange world when companies put their AI units into a subscription-based platform to give consumers a bit of an “edge” over free users and access to capabilities that others may not have.

Say what you like about the relatively slow evolution of Alexa as a voice assistant (and the slightly slower emergence of Alexa+ as a more advanced AI system), Amazon has absolutely thrashed Apple and ...

Alexa has become indispensable for many families, but it may have even more to offer parents. You should try these Alexa ...

Amazon and Google are fierce competitors in the smart home space, but will Amazon's Echo Dot or Google's Nest give you better ...

The Amazon Echo Studio 2nd Generation smart speaker amps up the style and Alexa's AI capabilities. But how does it compare ...

Amazon blames the weird noises users were hearing Alexa make on an issue with the service's text-to-speech model.

Love Alexa on your Echo? There's now a new way to chat with this smart assistant.

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away starting on ...

Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.

Amazon sells the Echo Dot for $49. Amazon is also the company selling it for $29 during Prime Day, which leaves very little room for profit on its own hardware. The newest Echo Do ...