Amazon has given me a precious gift: infinite new ways to troll my family and house guests with Alexa. On Thursday, the company released a set of DIY apps for the voice-assistant that anyone can make.

Alexa Live, the yearly conference for app developers on Amazon's voice assistant platform, kicks off Wednesday, with more than a few surprises. For one, the Alexa developer community is much more ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...