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You can ask Alexa all kinds of strange, silly questions.

While you’ve likely used your Amazon Echo to play music, listen to podcasts, or order stuff online, you can also use the technology to ask Alexa some silly questions.

Chris Higgins


















YouTube // The Computer Chronicles

"Will we add computing power to our TV sets, or...TV capability to our personal computers?"—Stewart Cheifet in 1996.

Chris Higgins
Pickering & Greatbatch via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

A new analysis of thousands of books finds that bestselling titles from the last few decades contain fewer strongly positive or negative words than older works such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

Shaunacy Ferro