Amazon aims to make Alexa assistant bigger part of users’ lives


The updated Amazon Alexa Plus,is on display in Amazon's Day 1 building in Seattle on September 20, 2018. - Amazon weaves its Alexa digital assistant into more services and devices as it unveiles new products powered by artificial intelligence including a smart microwave and dash-mounted car gadget. (Photo by Grant HINDSLEY / AFP)

SEATTLE: From the kitchen to the car, Amazon on Sept 20 sought to make its Alexa digital assistant and online services a bigger part of people’s lives with an array of new products and partnerships. 

Updates to the Internet giant’s Alexa-infused Echo smart speakers will allow them to tend to microwave cooking and even have “hunches” regarding what users may want or have forgotten. 

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