"When I first [turned] it on it almost blew out of my hand." Homeowner stunned after using 'beast' of a leaf blower for the ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that will allow virtually all voice requests to go to the company's cloud. The company's cloud-based voice ...

Here are your options. Apple's HomePod line of smart devices work similarly to Amazon Echo devices. You can ask questions and Siri will answer them, among other things. There's good news and bad ...

This year: In addition to the higher-than-expected cost for undocumented immigrants, the increased cost of prescription drugs accounts for $540 million of the $2.8 billion gap identified Monday ...

“They’re a symbol of all that is wrong with us as a species.” Blanchett’s condemnation of leaf blowers has become an unlikely social media meme after outbursts against them of various ...

Alexa is about to echo everything you say to her to Amazon. Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn’t sent to Amazon’s ...

Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally ...

But her brief and funny aside about audience participation brings to mind another of Blanchett’s annoyances: Leaf blowers. Through the years, the actress has been very vocal about her disdain ...

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word ...

Police “could not arrest” the Southport killer before he carried out his attack because of a gap in the law, the UK’s terror watchdog has said, as he ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ views on their school experiences, friendships and future plans. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,391 U.S. teens ages 13 ...

Reading any Closing the Gap report is a sombre affair, and the most recent data was no different. The latest report released by the Productivity Commission makes for a sobering but unsurprising ...