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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa digital assistants can now talk to each other. The collaboration between the two assistants was announced last year and was originally due to become available by the end of 2017.

Microsoft showed how the integration would work at its Build conference earlier this year, and what's rolling out today seems little changed from that demo. From a Cortana-native device (a Windows 10 PC, an Xbox, the Harman Kardon speaker), "Hey Cortana, open Alexa" will switch you to speaking to Alexa. From there, you have access to Alexa's full range of shopping (not that anyone seems to really care about that), music, weather, and so on.

Original Submission

1. "Arthur T Knackerbracket" - https://soylentnews.org/~Arthur+T+Knackerbracket
2. "following story" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/alexa-and-cortana-integration-starts-rolling-out-today/
3. "last year" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/cortana-and-alexa-are-coming-together-in-surprising-microsoftamazon-partnership/
4. "the Harman Kardon speaker" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/harman-kardon-invoke-review-cortana-isnt-too-comfortable-in-the-home-yet/
5. "seems to really care about that" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/only-a-small-percentage-of-users-buy-stuff-through-alexa-report-claims/
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28440

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