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In the race to be top dog of voice assistants, Alexa is behind the pack, with Google Assistant leading and Apple’s Siri right behind it. But well past the dawn of the artificial intelligence era, the ...

Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics ...

Via your smartphone, you can pick between Alexa and Google Assistant. Once you’ve chosen your side, the PHS works like any smart speaker. Ask it questions, control your smart lighting, check your ...

Voice assistants, like Alexa, are marketed as intuitive ... She recalled how she bought her parents a Google Hub. "My dad is real country and be saying, 'Hey Googis,'" they wrote.

Instead of being trapped in a phone like Apple’s Siri or a computer ... But it needs to pull off its promised reinvention of Alexa, or Apple and Google will overtake it. In 2014, Amazon ...

With giants like Apple and Google bringing their own AI models to ... foremothers of AI remains struggling to catch up, Amazon's Alexa. A new pay-walled report from Bloomberg this week revealed ...

The updated Alexa is also a key barometer for Amazon ... many industry observers consider the company to be trailing its peers like Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft, along with buzzy newcomers ...