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You can find Alexa almost everywhere these days... Everywhere, that is, except on birth certificates: After Amazon released its Echo, the popularity of Alexa as a baby name dropped 33%. Go figure. Today:

  • Alexa has her eye on your passenger seat
  • California’s privacy law is both bitter and sweet
  • SoftBank can’t shake its cold feet
Stay curious.





Who’s riding shotgun in that Lamborghini? Alexa, of course
Amazon put the pedal to the metal on its ambitions for Alexa this week, announcing newpartnershipswith Lamborghini and the up-and-coming electric truck maker Rivian.

Later this year, owners of these luxury whips will be able touse Alexato turn on their seat warmers, open and close their windows, and even view what’s inside their trunks via live video feed.

Alexa was already riding in other cars...
... likeBMW,Audi,Toyota, andFord-- all of which had already inked agreements with Amazon to put Alexa in their vehicles.

But this Lamborghini partnership shows that Alexa isn’t just hitching a ride with mass-market cars -- she’s also interested in copiloting luxury cars.

In fact, Amazon wants to be a passenger in EVERY car
And to do it, Amazon has also developedEcho Auto, a tiny, dashboard-mounted piece of hardware that can turn even an Oldsmobile into a new, voice assistant-enabled smart car.

Since it launched in 2018, Echo Auto has given Amazon customers the ability to use Alexa to control their music, make phone calls, and use navigation services while driving.

Yesterday Amazon and Exxon Mobil announced that Alexa will soon be able topay for gasat 11.5k Exxon and Mobil locations.

Of course, Alexa’s expansion isn’t confined to the car
Since Amazon wants Alexa to be available all the time, the company has made an effort to add Alexa to just about everything.

In fact, the number of Alexa-enabled devicesdoubledin the past year..

So, in addition to your car, here are some other places you might find Alexa lurking:

 
"Siri, Apple's virtual assistant that launched on iPhones in 2011, has never been a very popular name. That name peaked in popularity two years earlier, when 120 female babies in the U.S. were named Siri, about 6 per every 100,000 girls. Last year, 20 U.S. girls were named 'Siri,' or about 1 per every 100,000."
 
My niece name is Siri. The funny thing is that in one of her classes at Northwestern...another girl from Ohio had the name Siri too.

Niece transfer to an Ivy league school to be closer to her boyfriend and her hometown...there's another girl (from California) in one of her classes with the name Siri. :rolleyes:

Here's the catcher...that girl from California...I dated her mom (student from Norway) when I was in college. :D

Don't name your kid Siri @ https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/01/opinion/obeidallah-baby-name/index.html

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Because touching a button sitting in your car that sits 19 inches from you is that difficult to do.


I got one of those devices as a gift and I literally use it for 2 things

Set an alarm
And listen to music.

I see everything else these devices do as useless. I have no idea why people are so excited to use them to put their lights on or order a pizza.
 
YesterdayAmazon and Exxon Mobil announced that Alexa will soon be able topay for gasat 11.5k Exxon and Mobil locations.


Because inserting my credit card that takes all about 9 seconds to do is way too difficult these days.
By the way apple pay and google pay have been out for years and I see that no one uses these payment methods..when I'm at checkout people still use cash and credit card, I never see anyone whipping out their smartphone to wave it in front of the machine to pay for groceries or a pair of shoes. Take notice next time you are out, or better yet ask the guy at checkout, that's if your store didnt go completely self checkout.
 
S2007S said:
YesterdayAmazon and Exxon Mobil announced that Alexa will soon be able topay for gasat 11.5k Exxon and Mobil locations.


Because inserting my credit card that takes all about 9 seconds to do is way too difficult these days.
By the way apple pay and google pay have been out for years and I see that no one uses these payment methods..when I'm at checkout people still use cash and credit card, I never see anyone whipping out their smartphone to wave it in front of the machine to pay for groceries or a pair of shoes. Take notice next time you are out, or better yet ask the guy at checkout, that's if your store didnt go completely self checkout.
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Best to pay with cash as much as possible because those magnetic strips on your credit cards, debit cards or other types of cards contain too much private data about you.

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wrbtrader said:
Best to pay with cash as much as possible because those magnetic strips on your credit cards, debit cards or other types of cards contain too much private data about you.

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Agree but I feel.its too late to stay private. If they aren't gathering data from your purchases using personal credit cards they are gathering it using other methods.
 
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