The new souped-up Alexa voice assistant, Alexa Plus, is scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks in an early access preview.

With how fast the smart home market is evolving nowadays, homeowners are looking for ways to bring smart home automation into ...

Welcome to the future of living! Imagine walking into your home, and with just a simple voice command, the lights dim, your favorite playlist starts playing, and the thermostat adjusts to the perfect ...

This can be done by holding down the home button and pressing the reset button on the top of the device. Keep holding down the home button, then release it once the lights on the top of the device ...

Imagine coming home and, with one phrase, the lights come on, a playlist starts, and your coffee starts brewing. Of course, it's important to understand how these digital helpers actually work ...

Want to try something with Alexa? You probably can -- you just need to know the right words to say. If you have an Echo at home and want to get the most out of Alexa, here are all the voice ...

After nearly 20 years at Microsoft, Panay was ready to dive in.

Alexa Plus can also control your smart home by monitoring your security cameras, dimming lights or turning them on or off at certain times of the day, playing music and controlling your smart TV.

If you’ve had it up to here with dumb responses from Alexa, get ready for a big change ... from smart speakers and soundbars to smart lights and security cameras. Ben's articles have also ...

The quality of Alexa’s simulated voice ... The magic of controlling my lights or thermostat with my voice eventually stopped feeling so magical after the hundredth time, while simultaneously ...

For example, you could tell Alexa once to remember to turn off the lights when you close the garage door, and it'll do that from that moment onward. Jump to a specific Prime Video scene ...

But after more than a decade relegated to a corner of the kitchen turning off lights and turning on cooking timers, is Alexa really ready to take a more active role in our lives, handling complex ...