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Amazon’s Alexa Gets Smarter: AI-Powered Alexa+ Launches in Australia

Amazon has officially launched Alexa+ in Australia, bringing its generative AI-powered virtual assistant to local Echo devices. Moving beyond basic voice triggers, setting kitchen timers, and answering surface-level queries, Alexa+ represents a complete overhaul aimed at making smart home interaction far more natural, intuitive, and action-oriented. Powered by Amazon Bedrock and advanced large language models (LLMs), Alexa+ is designed to behave less like a command-line interface and more like a conversational assistant.  * Natural Conversation & Context Tracking: You no longer need to speak in rigid, robotic phrases. Alexa+ can process mid-sentence pauses, stumbles, and multi-step requests without requiring a repeated wake word for every follow-up question.  * Localised Australian Personality: Tailored specifically for Aussie households, the local engineering and linguistics teams trained Alexa+ to understand Aussie slang, idioms (from "arvo" to "snags...

Windows 10X on Hyper-V emulator

Use this guide if you have an amd processor

For use with Hyper-V manager in windows 10 pro



First we need to enable virtualisation in bios settings, mine was called secure virtual machine = enabled

Go to control panel, programs, turn windows features on and off. Scroll down & check the Hyper-V tab


Search for Hyper-V manager in Cortana 

Create a new virtual machine 

Tap on New virtual machine and browse to the vhdx file


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