Amazon went out with a massive showcase for its AI assistant, with Alexa+ taking center stage during their recent event. Alexa+ offers a more conversational AI to users, with natural language ...

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Google started out as a search engine, so nobody ever expected it to be directly competing with Amazon, an online retailer, in the smart home market.

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

Set up your Amazon Echo to "see" members of your family to unlock some cool automations.