WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Cota is among more than 900 seniors who have received a free ElliQ through a New York State Office of Aging (NYSOFA) program that uses technology to combat social isolation and loneliness among older ...

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps. I took the new feature for a spin, and it does work. Alexa+ did a good job ...

OpenAI's AI models could help power Amazon's digital assistant Alexa and other internal projects, CNBC confirmed. The collaboration is being discussed as part of Amazon's ongoing talks to invest up to ...

Polly, want a cracker? Apparently, she does—and a lot more! But she doesn’t need you to get it. After all, why go through a human when a parrot can just order its own snacks from Amazon instead? It ...

Major iPhone updates like iOS 26 typically come with hundreds of new features and changes, but a much smaller subset that become daily go-tos. Here are four new iOS 26 features I’ve found myself using ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Smart home gadgets have become so common that you or someone you know must own at least a few of these. It could be something as small as a ...

The grocery store chain Wegmans, among other retailers, is using face recognition on its customers — and scanning their faces for resemblance not only to accused shoplifters but also to people whose ...

The South Florida Water Management District held a python hunt in December with cash prizes. Kevin Pavlidis won multiple awards, including for most pythons captured and the longest python. The ...

Over the past couple of weeks, users on the r/alexa subreddit have reported getting automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus as a perk for their Prime memberships. The update doesn’t appear to be opt-in, ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Amazon is rolling out an automatic upgrade of Alexa+ to some Prime members, and not everyone who's getting the upgrade is happy about it. Amazon says that Alexa+ gives users a ...