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

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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...
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Backup data from Android to an OpenSSH server

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Assuming you have created an openssh server on your windows 11 PC and you have root access , it's easy to backup your apps, call logs, messages, wallpapers and known wifi networks with swift backup for android


Head over to cloud sync and tap on SFTP 

Next you'll need to enter your credentials and the location on your PC

I've got my backup on D drive and the path is /D:

This creates the backup in the root of my D drive 

Once you've added your credentials, tap on connect


Conclusion

It might be useful to sync the backup folder to a cloud service to add an extra layer of assurance that you'll never lose your backup.





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