Amazon quietly makes Alexa even more convenient with a bunch of cool new features
While Google Assistant is getting ready to drop a cool feature unveiled way back in May 2018 and actually released around a year ago, Amazon appears to have greatly enriched Alexa’s capabilities over the last month or so with little to no fanfare.
Of course, you don’t always need to keep asking Amazon’s voice assistant for useful information, as Alexa is oftentimes capable of anticipating your behavior or at least memorizing things of interest to you. For instance, you only have to ask once to receive severe weather alerts now, and the AI will let you know every time there’s a storm brewing in your area.
Last but certainly not least, the long line of recent retirements from the Democratic presidential primary didn’t stop Amazon from launching a general election hub of sorts. Alexa is now capable of recapping debates, sharing information on the latest polls, as well as answer questions on candidate positions, endorsements, and campaign events, not to mention offer live updates on results for individual states.
Unfortunately, the virtual assistant can’t tell Democratic voters which of the remaining two candidates is better equipped to beat Trump in November.