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1000 best Things To Ask Alexa: Helpful and amusing questions you can’t do without

You’ve had your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot for some time and now you’re wondering what you can do to make it not only helpful but amusing. If you are struggling to utilize your Amazon Echo for more than just the basics, look no further. This book will provide you with the right questions to ask your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot to get not only information, but to maybe get a good laugh or two.

This book is your pocket guide to maintaining a last relationship with your Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot. This book can be used not only with the first and second generation Echo Dots, but with any of your Alexa enabled devices. You Echo is not only business but party as well. 1000 Best Things to Ask Alexa: Helpful and Amusing Questions You Can’t Do Without is a fun an interesting guide with enough material to keep you and Alexa busy for days.

This book will cover the following topics:

    Jokes & Games
    Mathematical Equations
    Kitchen Measurements
    Fun Facts
    Entertainment
    Kitchen Measurements
    Educational Questions

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Alexa... Ripley's Believe it or Not

Want a"Weird Minute?"

Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment has received approval from Amazon to use Alexa, the voice-activated internet hub, to distribute 60 seconds’ worth of weird news under the name of “Ripley’s Weird Minute.”

Alexa users subscribe to the Ripley news through the tabletop device’s flash briefings alongside NPR, CNN and other traditional news outlets, said Suzanne Smagala-Potts, Ripley public relations manager.

“A lot of these outlets are kind of covering the same topics – they’re all covering what’s going on in politics or what’s in the news,” she said. “We’re bringing you 60 seconds of odd, weird news to your day.”

It’s “a reprieve from the normal news that you’re getting,” Smagala-Potts said.

“Ripley’s Weird Minute” features fresh content six days a week, Monday through Saturday.

The segments are written and recorded by Ripley’s Orlando-based writers and researchers. The subjects are mined from the company’s vault of oddities or play off news of the day. For instance, for March 14 – aka 3-14 – they prepared a minute’s worth of news about pi and math.

For a recent leap-forward day “we wrote stories about napping and the history of daylight savings … trying to keep it really light and fun,” Smagala-Potts said.

Other planned tidbits include the whereabouts of the first baby incubators, which were not kept at a hospital but instead at Coney Island, facts about colonial dentistry and the burly-man cheerleaders of the 1800s.

The addition of Amazon Alexa continues Ripley’s trend of using new media and platforms. The company tailors content to Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and its own blog.

“We want to reach new audiences and reach our current audience in the ways that they’re getting their content now. … and there’s a million different ways to do it,” Smagala-Potts said.