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Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage

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Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms

Amazon’s Alexa is on the fritz, bungling alarms and timers and leaving some UK users trapped in an endless wake-up call.…

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