Amazon Echo is part speaker, part assistant — and tells you what you want to hear

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In its first major push into the smart automation market, Amazon announced a new cylinder-shaped device on Thursday called Amazon Echo, which tracks the news, plays your music, tells you the weather, remembers your shopping list and even tells you jokes.

Amazon Echo will cost $99 for Amazon Prime members (for a limited time) and $199 for the rest of us. It stands at 9 inches high and looks like a speaker

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Similar to Apple's voice assistant software Siri, Amazon Echo responds to "Alexa." From there, you can talk to the device and ask it anything you want, from the weather in Los Angeles to the number of teaspoons in a tablespoon Read more...

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