With users' consent, researchers believe popular virtual assistants could also help diagnose people with Parkinson's disease.

Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter.

Why this is important: Amazon recently launched Alexa+, a service that brings similar functionality to the Alexa platform.

Since launching in 2014, Alexa has grown far beyond its original role as a simple voice assistant for music and reminders.

You can ask Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri if Santa is real The voice assistants don't give away any secrets if asked that crucial question.

Google Assistant — via the first-gen Google Home speaker — had its own charms, especially if you were a very googly person. Not keeping up And yet, as the years passed, and I added more of ...

“Think about it. You are summoning, Alexa, Siri, Google Home, whatever, and every single kid looks toward wherever it is and gets freaked out, and then they fall on their face in a bowing position.

But while Alexa, Google Home devices, and Siri became ubiquitous in people’s lives, they began showing their age when generative AI became popular.