Amazon Alexa Lost Its Voice, Forcing Users to Use Light Switches and Check Weather Themselves

Some Amazon Alexa users were met with deafening silence Friday, with the voice-controlled digital assistant going down across the U.S. According to Downdetector.com, a website that monitors technology outages and service interruptions, issues with Alexa began after 9:30 a.m. EST. Users reported issues with Alexa’s voice recognition service on either Amazon Echo devices or third […]

Jaguar Unveils Luxury All-Electric SUV

Jaguar Land Rover unveiled Thursday its first all-electric vehicle, the sporty looking 2019 I-PACE crossover sport utility vehicle that aims to compete with Tesla’s larger Model X SUV. The vehicle is priced at 63,495 pounds ($87,152) in the UK. The U.S. pricing, which is expected to be different, will be announced March 6. A base […]

People Have Asked Google to Remove 2.4 Million Links About Them. Here’s What They Want to Forget

Google has released one of its periodic updates on how it deals with Europe’s so-called “right to be forgotten,” but this time it’s also put out research that breaks down what personal references people want scrubbed from the search engine. The right to be forgotten—which is really a “right to be delisted” from search results—was […]

Google starts a push for cross-platform app development with Flutter SDK

As part of its Mobile World Congress release slate, Google’s Flutter SDK is hitting beta 1. Flutter is an open source mobile UI framework that allows developers to make super-fast, cross-platform mobile apps. “But wait!” you’re saying, “Google already has a mobile SDK! It’s called ‘Android.’” That’s correct, but as usual, Google isn’t attacking mobile […]