Can you change Alexa’s name? If you own an Amazon Alexa device, you know that she can definitely come in handy. And if not, ...

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Growing up, I loved having the name Alexa. Aside from a brief first-grade obsession with the name Rebecca, I've always been happy with it and never had a reason to feel otherwise. That's until ...

This includes: Thanks to Alexa’s drag name generator, a created-for-Australia experience that was built for Mardi Gras, Alexa has created thousands of drag names for Aussies, from Saucy Mornay to Mama ...

Now, another household name can be changed as well. Amazon's latest update to its Echo devices, called by most people "Alexa", gives owners the option to change its name, or wake word, to Ziggy.

"Computer" wouldn't cut it. So after testing various names, the team landed on a word Alexa, that used soft vowels and an "x." It sounded fairly unique. But the engineers also liked the name for ...