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Indians Fell In Love With Amazon’s Alexa, Proposed 6,000 Times A Day In 2020 – The Wilmington Journal

Indians said “I love you” to Amazon’s Alexa 19,000 times a day in 2020 and got an equal number of bedtime story requests. Indians even proposed Alexa 6,000 times a day. “Many customers found a [...]

Source: The Wilmington Journal

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