Just picked up an Amazon Echo device? Then you'll be itching to discover what it can do. Play music? Check. Answer questions? Check. But as the 30 best Alexa skills (skills being similar to apps), ...

Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away. Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future ...

Amazon has decided to stop paying developers to build Alexa apps and giving them free AWS credits, shutting down the Alexa Developer Rewards Program and the AWS Promotional Credits for Alexa program ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...

Amazon to End Program That Pays Developers to Create Alexa Skills The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills.

You couldn’t miss the 2024 AI trends on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, but one announcement that flew slightly under the radar was Amazon’s launch of new ...