9 Best Articles in 2022
Chris Messina
Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show
Chris Messina
~15 min read · From 2017 · So you think Amazon is a tech company? No, you’re wrong
Reader View · Shared by 288, including Brian Roemmele, Nir Eyal, Johannes Baeck, Simon Wüthrich, Thomas Power, Martin Recke, Andreas Von Gunten, Charlie O'Keefe, Eric Sinclair, Ilia Markov, Herbert Bay, Klaus Eck, Gideonro, Weiting Chen, Dominik Grolimund, Martin Hoffmann, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Jochen Burkhard, Andreas Stegmann
anatomyof.ai
Anatomy of an AI System
anatomyof.ai
20+ min read · From 2018 · Professors Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler have created a map that visualizes the many processes that make the Amazon Echo work. In this essay, which accompanies their map, they take you on a fascinating journey outlining the global networks of raw material, human labor and data behind today’s popular gadgets.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 315, including carlo zapponi 🐟, Dominik Grolimund, Jer Thorp, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Florian Hanke 🍎, Scott Williams, Brian Roemmele, getAbstract, Javi Cantón, Dr. Anna Jobin, von Moerenburgh, Chris Messina, Caroline Jarrett, ThomNagy, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Mike Tamir, PhD, Daniel Boos, Marsha Collier, Victor Lee, Andreas Von Gunten
TechCrunch
Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 skills, up from 10,000 in February
TechCrunch
6 min read · From 2017 · Amazon's Alexa voice platform has now passed 15,000 skills - the voice-powered apps that run on devices like the Echo speaker, Echo Dot, newer Echo Show and..
Reader View · Shared by 67, including Klaus Eck, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Kris Fannin, Esther Schindler, Chris Messina, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, Harpreet Singh, #bottish, Merkstatt
medium.com
Amazon Echo and Alexa really matter — Medium
medium.com
6 min read · From 2016 · The Amazon Echo is the first smart consumer electronics product since the smartphone that’s poised to become a daily habit for millions.
Reader View · Shared by 36, including Chikara Shimizu/清水力, David Smooke, Courtney Bolton ★, Klaus Eck, Dominic Grzbielok, Andrew Mutavdzija, Pete Skomoroch, Johannes Lenz
Quanta Magazine
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
Quanta Magazine
4 min read · 2021-10-20 · Today’s powerful but little-understood artificial intelligence breakthroughs echo past examples of unexpected scientific progress.
Shared by 332, including Pascal Sulser, A. FNIX Hill, Carla Gentry
Gizmodo
Don't Buy Anyone an Echo
Gizmodo
5 min read · From 2017 · Three years ago, we said the Echo was “the most innovative device Amazon’s made in years.” That’s still true. But you shouldn’t buy one. You shouldn’t buy one for your family. You definitely should…
Reader View · Shared by 75, including Chung Chen, Nils Hitze, Joseph Finder, Grégoire Japiot 🌻
Business Insider
The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming
Business Insider
7 min read · From 2018 · Amazon Echo is turning out to be a sleeper hit, but insiders say it’s anything but an overnight success story.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Nir Eyal, Weiting Chen, Kim Dik, Steve Parkinson, 👑Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #VeeCon
Bloomberg
The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo
Bloomberg
~13 min read · From 2016 · The Amazon Echo started as part of a secret augmented-reality project and ended up as a surprise hit.
Shared by 53, including Klaus Eck
Backchannel
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
Backchannel
8 min read · From 2016 · Amazon’s personal assistant is about to stretch beyond the Echo, and get downright chatty with everyone.
Reader View · Shared by 163, including Brian Roemmele, Twitty, Nir Eyal, M.G. Siegler, Bertrand Maltaverne, Kim Dik, Werner Vogels, Pete Skomoroch, Inês Santos Silva, Leslie D, Jo Alchin, Gideonro, Lukas Stickelberger, hiten.eth, Klaus Eck, Gerd Leonhard, Dominic Grzbielok, Niklaus Gerber, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Chris Messina
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Deadline Hollywood
‘Reservation Dogs’ Devery Jacobs Joins ‘Echo’ Marvel Series For Disney+
Deadline Hollywood
1 min read · Apr 28th · Reservation Dogs star Devery Jacobs has been cast in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series Echo. Jacobs’ casting was teased last week by Echo star Alaqua Cox who posted an Instagram story w…
Reader View · Shared by 9
STAT
Puzzling pediatric hepatitis cases echo an earlier mysterious illness
STAT
7 min read · May 16th · Finding a probable culprit can sometimes happen fairly quickly when something new pops up in the infectious diseases sphere. But that doesn't mean the end of the mystery.
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Amesh Adalja, ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧻🧙♂️
LAist
Only 1 In 10 Of Echo Park's Unhoused Residents Have Found Long Term Housing Since The Sweep
LAist
1 min read · Mar 25th · A UCLA report finds that few of the residents displaced from Echo Park Lake last year have actually secured long-term housing.
Reader View · Shared by 6, including 89.3 KPCC
The New Republic
Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex
The New Republic
20+ min read · May 19th · Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy;…
Reader View · Shared by 10, including p.e. moskowitz
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Amazon Echo - SNL
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From 2017 · The Amazon Echo Silver is specifically designed for the greatest generation (Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant). Get more...
Shared by 50, including Merkstatt, mary elisabeth, Hans Bickhofe, Layton Diament, Johannes Lenz, janfsauer, Gerd Leonhard, Niklaus Gerber, Brian Roemmele, Werner Vogels, Mark Suster
The Verge
This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium
The Verge
~12 min read · From 2018 · Welcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’
Reader View · Shared by 81, including Jakub Albert Ferenc, Dominik Grolimund, Charlie Oliver, luis antónio santos
WIRED
What Amazon Echo and Google Home Do With Your Voice Data
WIRED
3 min read · From 2017 · Like the idea of Amazon Echo and Google Home, but feel uneasy about all that recording? Here's what they listen to—and how to delete it.
Shared by 44, including Merkstatt, Sylvie Reinhard, Mara Averick, Jean-Patrick, Thomas Power, Glenn Oberholzer, Ralph Hutter, Education Architects
howchoo.com
I turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo. Introducing: Furlexa
howchoo.com
10 min read · From 2017 · I turned my Furby into an Amazon Echo using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Alexa Voice Service! I give you: Furlexa.
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Esther Schindler, Mara Averick, Florian Hanke 🍎, Mark Kaigwa, Hans Bickhofe
TechCrunch
#deletefacebook
TechCrunch
7 min read · From 2018 · Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place – human connection. It is a cancer. I’ve begun the slow proces…
Reader View · Shared by 191, including Valiskster, Esther Schindler, Jörg Niggli, Kevin Kyburz, ErmanTaylan.eth, Shut Up and Create, Barnaby Skinner, swissmiss, Ryan Hulland, Martin Recke, Matthew Turland
youtube.com
Introducing Echo Show
youtube.com
From 2017 · Echo Show – everything you love about Alexa, and now she can show you things. Watch video flash briefings and YouTube, control smart home devices like lights...
Shared by 26, including りょうはら たつひろ, Adam Tinworth, Klaus Eck, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, janfsauer
The Wall Street Journal
Amazon Says It Has Over 10,000 Employees Working on Alexa, Echo
The Wall Street Journal
3 min read · From 2018 · Amazon.com has more than 10,000 employees working on its Alexa virtual assistant and the Echo devices it powers, the executive in charge of the business said Tuesday.
Shared by 31, including Dominic Grzbielok, Dominik Grolimund, Brian Roemmele, Tom Connor
github.com
tessalt/echo-chamber-js
github.com
From 2015 · echo-chamber-js - Commenting without the comments
Shared by 48, including SketchTalk, Alexandru Rosianu, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Christopher Möller, kp 🇺🇦, César Suárez, David Bauer, Joel Bez
youtube.com
Echo/Google Home infinite loop
youtube.com
From 2016 · Decided to have some fun with my Echo and Google Home To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com - Forwar...
Shared by 45, including Gui Schmitt, Eliska Hutnikova, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Jesse Baer 🔥, Oriol Farré, Merkstatt
