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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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Health Connect - Androids Answer To Apple Health?

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Health Connect Overview:
- Health Connect is an Android platform for health and fitness apps to access on-device data.
- It provides API for reading and writing health and fitness data, and allows users to control app access.

Key Features of Health Connect:
- Enhances users' knowledge of their health and fitness activities.
- Provides quick and convenient access to privacy controls and a single data repository.

Note: the below apps are compatible with health connect on android 13 or lower, and may not work with Android 14







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Health Connect is integrated into the system settings of the latest version of Android 13 on Pixel smartphones.

When you install Health Connect you'll need to add it as a quick settings tile so you can view your health data 







Here are some common apps that connect to Health connect for Android































































































































"Starting on June 30, 2025, the Google Fit APIs, including the REST API, will no longer be available." Android developers 




There is privacy controls, such as auto delete, and the data collected by Health Connect stays on your device as compatible apps gather data from the app. Health connect is compatible with Android 9 and up

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