Alexa adds long-form news delivery service for Echo devices to its flash briefing skills

Alexa has many impressive skills and capabilities developed by Amazon as well as various third-party companies, but one of the most popular hands-free tools available for owners of Echo-branded devices is actually pretty basic and unsophisticated. With "Flash Briefing", you can get your smart speaker to read you short news updates across a variety of topics simply by asking "what's the news?"

Obviously, that's a very convenient first-party Alexa skill for folks that are always in a hurry or are simply interested in the daily headlines and quick summaries of their relevance, but ...

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