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March 16, 2017 05:48 pm GMT

RIP Siri? You can use Alexa in Amazon's app now, and it's really smart

Amazon's digital assistant just landed on iOS, and it's giving Siri a run for its money.

You can now talk to Alexa via Amazon's official shopping app. The update dropped Thursday for many users, and it provides answers to serious questions ("what is a black hole?"), along with terrible jokes ("Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide") and, of course, shopping suggestions. Amazon says it'll be rolling out to everyone over the next week.

It works well and will be instantly familiar to anyone who owns an Echo device—Amazon's popular brand of A.I.-powered assistants that pipe up in response to vocal commands. Read more...

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