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 ...

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 ...

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away ...

Smart speakers like Amazon's Echo family of products are a great starting point if you’re looking to get a smarter home. They're affordable and easy to use, and beyond just playing music ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do You Hear What I Hear? Amazon Removes Echo Privacy Setting — What You Should Know Your email has been sent Amazon is mandating cloud-based processing for Echo ...

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. Here’s what some exporters in China ...