Amazon digital assistant Alexa gets new skill: amnesia

The UK government said that Britons will be able to get an answer to simple medical questions from the National Health Service (NHS) using their Amazon smart speakers.

Amazon on Wednesday added the ability to tell its Alexa digital assistant to forget what it has heard in a move that could assuage concerns about Echo devices remembering conversations.

The command "Alexa, delete everything I said today" will get the virtual aide to do just that, the Internet colossus said in an online post.