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Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are having their minds read by Amazon Alexa in the tech giant’s latest big-ticket Super Bowl ad. Continuing a run of annual spots featuring Hollywood A-listers (last year’s centered on Michael B. Jordan), this one sees the couple at home using Alexa Routines for various tasks. The…

EXCLUSIVE: This year, it wasn’t a movie trailer that was all the buzz following the Super Bowl, but rather Michael B. Jordan as Alexa. Given the unpredictable environment of the pandemic, and movie theaters largely still shuttered coast to coast, most of the major studios cut their supply of trailers during Super Bowl…

Michael B. Jordan is making his Super Bowl advertising debut in a plug for Amazon’s voice-recognition system Alexa. The spot, titled “Alexa’s Body,” will run 90 seconds online and will premiere as a 60-second ad during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LV on Sunday. (Watch the game-ready version above.) Jordan has…

Amazon has expanded the Routines feature of its Alexa voice system to Fire TV, giving users an enhanced level of control in their smart-home entertainment experience. Routines, which were introduced in 2017, tie multiple actions to a single voice command. With the new setup, for example, Amazon FireTV users can say…

Amazon unveiled a host of new products and features Thursday, including a new Echo Show model with Netflix and a swiveling screen, a Ring car camera that can record encounters with police, and beefed-up Fire TV devices. During a 45-minute recorded video presentation, Amazon executives introduced an array of…

Alexa, make way for Amitabh Bachchan. Amazon announced Monday that the Bollywood star will lend his voice to the tech giant’s assistant device Alexa starting next year. He will be the first Indian actor to voice the Amazon artificial intelligence gadget. In a post for its India blog, Amazon said the new feature will…

Samuel L. Jackson and other celebrities will lend their voices to Amazon’s Alexa devices in a new feature that will be available as a 99-cent upgrade, the tech giant announced at a major product reveal in Seattle. Other celebrities’ voices will be added next year. The company has recently amped up its affiliations…

Funny Or Die premiered a new talk show today with comedian and actress Tig Notaro. The new series is a celebrity talk show with Notaro as host — but her knowledge of TV, film and famous people is really bad. That’s why the new series is titled Under A Rock with Tig Notaro. The first episode (which you can watch above)…

UPDATED with executive comment. Amazon reported stellar results for the fourth quarter, including record sales of its own devices like the Echo, Fire and Alexa product lines. The tech giant reported net sales of $72.4 billion, up 20% from the year-earlier quarter and ahead of Wall Street forecasts for $71.87…

Hulu just offered a major proof point that voice could well be the next big thing in TV viewing. The streaming service struck a partnership with Amazon this fall to make Hulu available on the Echo Show, a tablet that’s powered Alexa. That allows viewers to use simple voice commands to tune in their favorite…

Intelligent assistants are coming soon to a television screen near you. Several of the world’s leading television manufacturers announced at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that they would open their devices to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Samsung Electronics, the most successful television-maker…

A few days after Apple held its high-profile unveiling of new iPhones and watches, streaming it on Twitter, Amazon responded by … sending out several press releases. Contained in those releases, however, was significant news of more than 70 new devices, features and tools for its Fire, Alexa and Echo systems, all of…