You can now tell Amazon’s Alexa assistant what skills to learn

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by Sindy Cator on June 28, 2016 at 12:59 pm

Alexa is learning. Alongside a redesign of its ‘skills’ section in the Alexa app, Amazon is letting users tell Alexa what they want her to learn. In the Alexa app, the skills section now has categories like ‘lifestyle’ or ‘smart home’ to choose from. In those categories are skills (read: a list of commands that access information or cause Alexa to spring into action) from third-party developers. Getting Alexa to access those commands once required you to select them in-app. Now, you can simply say things like “Alexa, enable NBC News” and she’ll start surfacing whatever news or actions NBC’s…