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8 new Echo and Alexa smart home gadgets that Amazon just announced

By David Nield Published

New smart speakers, smart displays, smart photo frames, and smart mapping capabilities have turned up from Amazon.

Smart Speakers
Amazon Echo Time
Amazon’s new Echo Time has a surprisingly good reason to exist

By Jacob Krol Published

The Time is an intriguing smart display

Smart Home Hubs
Amazon Echo Show 16
The new Amazon Echo Show 16 looks like an iMac and puts Alexa+ front and center in a major smart display redesign

By Jacob Krol Published

Amazon’s redesigned Echo Show 16 pairs a slimmer, more premium build with a smarter Alexa+ experience, offering a glimpse at the future of its smart displays.

Smart Home Hubs
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The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is Amazon's first full-Android tablet — and it might rival the iPad Air

By Axel Metz Published

I went hands-on with the Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, which Amazon describes as ‘the biggest leap’ in tablets it's ever made.

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Tablets
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I asked Alexa+ to help redecorate my apartment and was pleasantly surprised

By Cat Ellis Published

It turns out Amazon's AI-powered assistant has a much better eye for design than me — and it really loves sage green.

Smart Home
Daniel Rausch, Amazon VP Alexa & Echo
Enough chit-chat: Alexa is done waiting for the agentic AI future — I spoke to Amazon's Daniel Rausch to find out more

By Ross Rubin Published

Tech is finally catching up with the mission of Amazon's ubiquitous assistant.

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Daniel Rausch, Amazon VP Alexa & Echo
Amazon sees its original smart assistant vision realised in Alexa+

By Josephine Watson Published

As Alexa+ gains ground in the UK, we had the opportunity to catch up with Daniel Rausch, Amazon's VP Alexa and Echo to find out more about the Generative AI rollout so far.

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Smart Home
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Why are so many AI assistants female by default?

By Becca Caddy Published

From Siri to ChatGPT, many AI assistants have defaulted to female voices. Here’s how that happened — and why that choice is important.

AI Platforms & Assistants
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Alexa+ just got a personality upgrade — brief, chill, or sweet

By Graham Barlow Published

Amazon has added three customizable personality styles to Alexa+, letting users control how the assistant responds without changing its core functionality.

Smart Home
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ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Alexa+ leaving early access to the Fitbit founders' a new health tracking platform

By Hamish Hector Published

The week's biggets tech news stories from Amazon, Bethesda, Space X, Disney and more for February 7, 2026.

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