The best Stratechery content from the week of March 10, 2025, including why Ben is skeptical of Alexa+, a eulogy for Skype, and Trump’s planned China tariffs.

Branding has always been a tough race and logo design has always played an important role in it, as the logo of a brand is its first impression. In fact, a well-designed logo is not only an attractive ...

As college sports teams go, the Texas Longhorns are up there with the most iconic – and that includes their legendary logo.

The Longhorns have no intention of losing the classic logo we all know and love, but one social media influencer has a ...

From what we've learned, this change is in preparation for Amazon's launch of its huge AI upgrade to Alexa called Alexa Plus. Based on what Amazon has said, no Echo owner will have a choice with ...

NVIDIA provided hardware for Echo devices prior to 2021. Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic ...

Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud. After March 28, Amazon will ...

The company's cloud-based voice service Alexa currently offers an opt-in feature called "Do Not Send Voice Recordings." It stops audio requests from being sent to the company. Starting March 28 ...

With companies like Dell and Lenovo also experimenting with modular concepts, the success of Framework may be influencing the broader laptop industry. However, whether the Adapt X will make it ...

Movie memorabilia is a serious business, which is why this E.T. model that appeared in Steven Spielberg’s hit 1982 movie could fetch as much as a million bucks in a Sotheby’s auction that ends ...

But the feature, called ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’, will be removed from Echos powered by Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa from March 28. Now audio recordings of commands you give an ...