“You can send it my daughter's school schedule and it will add it to my calendar. I can upload a recipe ... and it will add it to my cooking library.”

The Vergecast · The many pluses and minuses of Alexa Plus

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What was described

Upload personal data (daughter's school schedule, recipes) into Alexa Plus so it can act on that information

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