AWS outage brings half the internet down
Access to Amazon's virtual assistant technology Alexa, the social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, the AI platform ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services was disrupted.
Access to Amazon's virtual assistant technology Alexa, the social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, the AI platform ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services was disrupted.
From the invention of written language to the advent of the internet, each technological leap has transformed the way we connect and interact with one another.
Amazon Alexa has been accused of sexism after the voice assistant was unable to reply to a question about the…
In a bid to encourage more families to have open conversations around menstruation, Amazon UK has trained its virtual assistant technology Alexa on how to give advice to manage periods, the e-commerce company said.
Amazon has introduced a new feature in the Alexa mobile app, in a recent update, allowing users to manage and move their music between Echo devices (or groups of multiple speakers) within the app itself.
Users can also add money to the Amazon pay by saying, ‘Alexa, add Rs XXX to my Amazon Pay balance’.
The Indian Alexa Skills Store features skills across categories including astrology, bollywood, cricket, devotion, entertainment, education, food, housing, and children.
Although constant technological evolution has indeed changed the world, it has also taken away many traditions that have lasted for centuries.
Reacting to the allegations, the e-commerce giant said it not only worked closely with organisations like the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) while developing Echo Dot Kids Edition but also followed industry's best practices for securing verifiable parental consent. "Specific to Echo Dot Kids Edition and FreeTime on Alexa, we want you to know that Kid skills in Amazon FreeTime do not collect personal information and we require verifiable parental consent from all customers before enabling FreeTime on Alexa," Amazon wrote in a blog post.
For the study, the researchers recruited 141 participants through Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowd-sourced site that allows people to get paid to participate in studies.
