If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands. Users of Amazon's Echo smart speaker will soon receive an email ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Jennifer Tuohy of The Verge about changes to Amazon's smart speakers. Users will no longer be able to opt not to have their voice recordings sent to the cloud. Smart ...

Amazon is discontinuing a feature that allowed users of some of its Echo smart speakers to choose not to send their voice ...

Smart speakers can be a real help in our homes. Baking cookies? Alexa, set a 15-minute timer. Left the game on in the living room? Alexa, turn off the TV. And, of course, Alexa, tune in to NPR. You ...