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TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the always-listening dept.

ShaunC writes: In San Diego, TV news anchor Jim Patton was covering a separate story about a child who accidentally ordered a doll house using her family's Echo. Commenting on the story, Patton said "I love the little girl, saying 'Alexa ordered me a dollhouse.'" Viewers across San Diego reported that in response to the news anchor's spoken words, their own Echo devices activated and tried to order doll houses from Amazon. Amazon says that anyone whose Echo inadvertently ordered a physical item can return it at no charge.
Meanwhile, Engadget reports that a team of Twitch streamers has convinced one Google Home device to answer questions from another, and they're livestreaming the surreal conversation.

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  1. How has he turned crazy? by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Much as I think Scott Adams has turned batsh!t crazy recently

    Scott Adams correctly predicted Trump would become president. Perhaps you should be a little less dismissive of someone who got something right that so many people predicted would turn out the other way...

    Then of course there's the whole grew his own comic empire angle, but a bunch of stacked successes cant mean anything, right?

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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:How has he turned crazy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Scott Adams predicted Trump would win in a landslide.

      I realize nuance isn't important to people like you, but it is an important distinction since it implies less a careful analysis of the situation and more a wild-ass guess. But, hey, lets just start following anyone that happened to be (kind of) right that one time, even if they just got lucky. That's the true path to success.

  2. Re:Dilbert predicted this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > post-war president.

    Odd statement considering that every day of both of his terms, the US has been, and is still, at war. He's not a "post-war" president. Worst Nobel Peace Prize winner evah, save for Henry Kissinger.