![]() ![]() Be sure to follow me on Twitter at on Facebook at /DavidGewirtz, on Instagram at /DavidGewirtz, and on YouTube at /DavidGewirtzTV. You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. That, Dear Reader, is why you're reading this article today. Suddenly, I heard her say, "Okay, Alexa can spy on me all she wants. While juggling all of that, she asked Alexa to add something to the grocery list. AnyList is an app that makes list-making incredibly easy and intuitive with three built-in rubrics: a grocery list that comes pre-loaded with departments, categorized lists that allow you to customize your own sections, and a basic list. Yesterday, my wife was cooking up something that had lots of pots, lots of utensils, lots of flame, lots of ingredients. We no longer have to try to fumble for a phone in a pocket while having multiple kitchen utensils in hand.Īlso: "Alexa, fart," plus 15 other useful Echo tricks and tips We no longer have to write an item on the grocery list note pad that lives on the side of our refrigerator, which we always forget to add to the app or bring to the market. We no longer have to try to remember to add an item, and then forget before we get to a computer. If we open the fridge or a cabinet and notice something missing (even if both hands are encumbered with the cooking process), we can ask Alexa to add something to our grocery list. This is now common practice for us when working in the kitchen. We lived for decades without Alexa, and we could again. ![]() Nothing Alexa does - from setting timers, to answering questions to allowing us to turn on our lights without, literally, lifting a finger - is a necessary function. Every so often, she spins her lights without prompting, as if to say, "I'm watching you, buddy, I'm watching you." And, when far flung programmers make a slight coding mistake, she shares recordings that never should have been recorded with people on the other end of a contact list.Įven so, we let her (for she has enough of a personality to be a "she," not an "it") into our lives in trade for mere convenience. Alexa sometimes pops up with weird sayings. Yet we continue to allow these intrusive and paranoia-inducing devices into our homes and offices.Īlso: New Amazon Echo? 6 essentials tips you need to know CNETĪmazon's Alexa ecosystem is particularly disturbing - and getting more and more entrenched in our lives. What is Gemini? Everything you should know about Google's new AI model
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