Amazon’s marketing material boasts that more than 7,500 government agencies worldwide use its cloud computing service AWS. Some of its investors fear those contracts include projects that see the ...

Alexa, what happens when a trillion-dollar company outsources its menial work to pseudonymous volunteers? Way back in 2019, Amazon announced that, going forward, any old idiot off the street could ...

Alexa Answers is somehow turning out even worse than expected. The program, launched in September, gives any idiot off the streets of the U.S. the chance to answer real questions posed to Amazon's ...

The Alexa Answers crowdsourcing platform is now open to everyone in the United States. Amazon says it has measures in place to prevent misuse. The next time you ask a question to Amazon’s Alexa voice ...

Typically when you ask Alexa a question through your Amazon Echo, the voice assistant provides an expected response. But you can create your own custom questions and answers for specific topics that ...

If you’ve got an Echo device at home, you’ve almost certainly played a few rounds of “stump Alexa,” asking Amazon’s assistant increasingly arcane questions in an attempt to elicit some baffled ...