MUO on MSN

I built my own voice assistant for $15 and it responds faster than Alexa ever did

I built what Amazon should have sold.

I helped Jeff Bezos build Alexa. Here are the lessons that stuck with me from my early days at Amazon.

Chai Atreya worked as a software development manager at Amazon from 2012 to 2015. He left to apply what he learned from Jeff ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I set up local voice control in Home Assistant and stopped giving Amazon a live mic in my house

Alexa, play Good Riddance.
Visual Studio Magazine

Claude AI Gets Yet Another Boost in VS Code 1.128

The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.
Mashable

I spent a week using AI tools in my daily life. Here's how it went.

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. Every tech company you can think of is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon and touting new ...