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- Amazon will no longer support the Echo Look, encourages owners to recycle theirs https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21274805/amazon-echo-look-discontinue-gadget-shopping-recycle-fashion-camera 23 comments
- Snips AIR: an open source, private, blockchain-based alternative to Amazon Echo https://vimeo.com/271650312 21 comments
- Your Amazon Echo Will Share Your Wi-Fi Network With Neighbors, Unless You Opt Out https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002590964/your-amazon-echo-will-share-your-wi-fi-network-with-neighbors-unless-you-opt-out 129 comments technology
- 'Alexa, I love you’: how lockdown made men lust after their Amazon Echo https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/20/alexa-i-love-you-how-lockdown-made-men-lust-after-their-amazon-echo 57 comments nottheonion
- Amazon’s Echo Show can now scan barcodes to flesh out your shopping list https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117569/amazon-echo-show-scan-barcodes-shopping-list 4 comments technews
- Amazon Echo Buds have a mysterious fitness tracking option hidden in some versions of the software https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/05/amazon-echo-buds-fitness-tracking-appears-in-alexa-software.html 7 comments technology
- What are your thoughts of Hospitals Using Amazon Echos in Patient's Hospital Rooms? http://fortune.com/2019/02/26/cedars-sinai-hospital-is-using-amazon-alexa-in-patients-hospital-rooms/ 4 comments technology
- Chinese workers at Amazon Echo factory ‘overworked, underpaid’ http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2150110/chinese-workers-amazon-echo-factory-overworked-and 11 comments worldnews
- Open Source Alternative to Amazon Echo, Mycroft Mark II, on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/1141563865?ref=44nkat 58 comments linux
- Open Source Alternative to Amazon Echo, Mycroft Mark II on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/1141563865?ref=44nkat 31 comments opensource
- It's day one, and Amazon is already selling Echo speakers at Whole Foods https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/28/16214216/amazon-whole-foods-price-cuts-echo-avocado-in-store?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter 8 comments technology
- A Hacker Turned an Amazon Echo Into a 'Wiretap' https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-echo-wiretap-hack/ 3 comments privacy
- A Hack Can Turn an Amazon Echo Into a Wiretap https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-echo-wiretap-hack 15 comments technology
- The Privacy Threat From Always-On Microphones Like the Amazon Echo https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/privacy-threat-always-microphones-amazon-echo 76 comments technology
- Police Ask Amazon’s Echo to Help Solve a Murder http://fortune.com/2016/12/27/amazon-echo-murder/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Setup question for Amazon Echo gift I just received https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/5ke0s1/setup_question_for_amazon_echo_gift_i_just/ 6 comments techsupport
- Google Home: a speaker to finally take on the Amazon Echo http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11688376/google-home-speaker-announced-virtual-assistant-io-2016 7 comments technology
- Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat http://qz.com/637326/amazon-echo-home-alone-with-npr-on-got-confused-and-hijacked-a-thermostat/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Amazon Echo Dot Does Not Wipe Personal Content After Factory Reset https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/is-it-possible-to-make-iot-devices-private-amazon-echo-dot-does-not-wipe-personal-content-after-factory-reset/ 759 comments technology
- Alexa, are you listening? The Amazon Echo is vulnerable to a physical attack that allows an attacker to gain a root shell on the underlying Linux operating system and install malware without leaving physical evidence of tampering. https://labs.f-secure.com/archive/alexa-are-you-listening/ 217 comments linux
- How Amazon’s logistics backbone, Whole Foods, PillPack, and Echo are primed to tackle the prescription drug market https://medium.com/@nxpatel/amazon-pharmacy-532033b6a6ff 40 comments technews
- [NP] Anyone here owns Amazon Echo or Dot? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/74ef8w/np_anyone_here_owns_amazon_echo_or_dot/ 26 comments india
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos is free to listen to if you have an Amazon Echo. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/6rm1mn/carl_sagans_cosmos_is_free_to_listen_to_if_you/ 4 comments space
- Amazon 'probably copied us' on Echo Show, startup CEO says https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-echo-show-alexa-probably-copied-us-nucleus-intercom-startup-ceo-says/ 3 comments technology
- Amazon refuses to give police the voice data from an Echo owned by a man charged with murder http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-refuses-to-give-police-echo-voice-data-in-murder-case-2016-12 837 comments technology
- Amazon bets big on Las Vegas, rolling out nearly 5,000 Echo units to hotel rooms http://www.techrepublic.com/article/amazon-bets-big-on-las-vegas-rolling-out-nearly-5000-echo-units-to-hotel-rooms/ 29 comments technology
- Amazon breaks out streaming music in a duet with Echo https://www.cnet.com/au/news/amazon-music-unlimited-launch-echo-alexa-apple-spotify/ 3 comments technology
- Google unveils its Amazon Echo competitor, a smart speaker called Google Home http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/google-unveils-its-amazon-echo-competitor-a-smart-speaker-called-google-home/ 12 comments technology
- Surface Book wins 2016 GeekWire Awards Hardware/Gadget of the year over Amazon Echo, HTC Vive http://www.winbeta.org/news/surface-book-wins-2016-geekwire-awards-hardwaregadget-year-amazon-echo-htc-vive 36 comments microsoft
- Building An Amazon Echo on the Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2 http://www.robotthoughts.com/2016/04/30/building-an-amazon-echo-on-the-raspberry-pi-model-b-revision-2/ 3 comments technology
- Amazon Echo Dot gives you a voice-controlled smart home for only $90 http://mashable.com/2016/04/16/amazon-echo-dot-review/#j1y5fz7memqx 11 comments technology
- ivee, the $99 Voice-Controlled Amazon Echo Competitor http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/16/ivee-is-a-99-voice-controlled-amazon-echo-competitor/ 5 comments technology
- Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers who make its Echo smart speakers and Kindles in China were hired and paid illegally. Agency staff – known as dispatch workers in China – do not get sick pay or holiday pay and can be laid off without wages during lulls in production. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/amazon-contractor-foxconn-pay-workers-illegally 186 comments worldnews
- Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler): "Amazon PR demanding we correct an article because we referred to an Echo as a "microphone"" https://nitter.net/jason_koebler/status/1303383712160190469#m 70 comments privacy
- Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-secretly-shared-users-private-audio/ 14 comments technology
- Anyone of you guys planning to or already bought Amazon echo device in India? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/75n839/anyone_of_you_guys_planning_to_or_already_bought/ 9 comments india
- Mozilla to Amazon: Show us how you’re protecting kids’ data | Amazon's product page for its new Echo Dot Kids Edition doesn't mention the words "privacy" or "data." Mozilla thinks it should. https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-to-amazon-show-us-how-youre-protecting-kids-data-privacy 66 comments privacy
- Amazon won't say if it hands your Echo data to the government - The retail, cloud, and device giant stands as the least transparent of transparent tech companies. http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-the-least-transparent-tech-company/ 1782 comments technology
- Apple looks to debut Siri SDK at WWDC, developing Amazon Echo competitor http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/24/apple-looks-to-debut-siri-sdk-at-wwdc-developing-amazon-echo-competitor 47 comments apple
- Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom: "when asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question" https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera 145 comments privacy