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Geek's Guide

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

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UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

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Huawei develops epidemic prevention and control solutions for safer travel

Verity Stob

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

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E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

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Articles about Alexa

Amazon drops battery-powered Echo speaker so you can play Despacito on the go

Only in India for the time being

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s?

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel!

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

Suggested reading: Making Your Last Will and Testament

Alexa, are you profiting from the illegal storage and analysis of kids' voice commands?

I'm sorry, I won't comment on ongoing litigation: Two privacy lawsuits filed against Amazon

Alexa Conversations: Amazon's AI assistant is about to get a whole lot more like Clippy

re:MARSHi! It looks like you're planning a night out! Would you like a taxi with that?

Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech

Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants

As Alexa's secret human army is revealed, we ask: Who else has been listening in on you?

The Lives of Others: Siri, Google and Cortana edition

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

Second time lucky?

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

ColumnIt's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin

2018 ain't done yet... Amazon sent Alexa recordings of man and girlfriend to stranger

Just human error, internet giant shrugs after GDPR request went wrong. No sh!t, Sherlock

Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge

Amazon gizmo may be key witness in slaying

Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store in the parking lot

$3bn-a-quarter in profit and most of coming in from AWS

Stealthy UK startup drops veil on next frontier of speech wizardry

The power's in the phone, not the cloud

Hey you know what the smart-home world really needs right now? Yup, Google screaming in

AnalysisNew Hub device continues to pull AI, Nest, YouTube closer together

Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond

That sound ... yes, that lack of sound ... it's here

Buried in the hype, one little detail: Amazon's Alexa-on-a-chip could steal smart home market

AnalysisBut then again, it doesn't actually exist, so...

Huawei's Alexa-powered AI Cube wants to squat in your living room too

IFAGet the White House on the line – it's not even cubic

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