The next time you ask a question to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, the answer might come from another Alexa user. Starting today, Amazon is publicly launching a program called Alexa Answers, which ...

Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it. It really takes the fun out of being an adamant ...

Alexa, what happens when a trillion-dollar company outsources its menial work to pseudonymous volunteers? Way back in 2019, Amazon announced that, going forward, any old idiot off the street could ...

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When Alexa doesn't know the answer to a question, many of us just give up, or just end up looking for the answer on our phone. Not one to leave loose ends untied is Amazon, which is rolling out a ...

There's always that deep sigh of disappointment—or sometimes even laughter or wonder—when you ask an Alexa voice assistant a question and she has absolutely no ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. Amazon's Alexa ...