Author: By John Gage Washington Examiner
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‘Alexa, change the subject’: Amazon programs the assistant to dampen heated family debates
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Amazon has added a new command to its virtual assistant Alexa in hopes that it can help end family feuds over the holidays before they get out of hand. Users can now say, “Alexa, change the subject,” which will prompt the software to ask various innocuous questions to distract heated friends and family from other arguments.…


