Has Alexa been giving you the cold shoulder recently? Youre far from the only one. Outages in Amazons cloud services muted the voice assistant for many people on March 2nd, producing error messages when you spoke commands to Echo speakers and other Alexa-equipped devices. The issue didnt affect everyone (we successfully spoke to Alexa in Canada during the outage, for instance) and could sometimes be overcome by using the Alexa app, but you certainly didnt want to depend on the AI …<...Read more

