NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: After Christmas morning, Amazon Alexa suffers outage in Europe
KATE HAYDEN Dec 26, 2018 | 5:07 pm
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77 wordsInnovation and Entrepreneurship, The Insider NotebookThousands of people plugging in new smart speakers for the first time on Christmas Day received a less than smart reply after servers for Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa crashed in Europe, reports the Guardian. Servers were overloaded with requests at about 10 a.m., prompting Alexa to tell some users “I’m having trouble understanding you right now.” Amazon tweeted around noon that the issue had been resolved, perhaps just in time to miss directing Christmas lunch preparations.
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