Nearly a year ago, Amazon said it would stop providing its facial-recognition software, Rekognition, to police for a year. Now it appears that ban won’t be ending any time soon — if ever.

The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.

US airlines have changed their websites to keep China happy, hours before a deadline for them to do so expired.

Amazon employs a global team that transcribes the voice commands captured after the wake word is detected and feeds them back into the software to help improve Alexa’s grasp of human speech so it can respond more efficiently in the future.

The FBI issues a statement that smart TVs can make it easier for malicious actors to hack into insecure devices.