In late December 2021, Snopes received inquiries that asked if Alexa, the voice of Amazon's Echo devices, really did tell a 10-year-old girl to touch a penny to the exposed prongs of a plug ...

The "penny challenge" was popularized in 2020 and can cause electric shocks, fires, and other harm. Amazon says it has fixed the issue and is taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.

2021 is almost over but new challenges are still going viral on TikTok. The Penny Challenge is one you shouldn't try at home. Now people are doing the Penny Challenge but this one is so dangerous ...

Amazon has been forced to update Alexa after it dared a 10-year-old girl to stick a penny into a live electrical outlet. The child had asked the voice assistant to suggest a challenge for her to ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --Amazon says it's fixed a fault with its Alexa digital assistant after it instructed a child to take a penny to a live electrical outlet. A woman tweeted on Sunday that Alexa gave ...

January is the perfect month to start saving and the ‘penny challenge’ is probably one of the simplest and best-known ways to start building your money pot for 2021. While we may be ...

For the (blessedly) uninitiated, the plug challenge consists of partially plugging a phone charger into an electrical outlet and then dropping a penny onto the exposed prongs. Results can run the ...

According to a tweet posted by Kristin Livdahl, Alexa told her 10-year-old child to touch a penny to an exposed plug socket. “My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this ...

That is the so-called “penny challenge” that went viral on TikTok last year. Amazon said it has since fixed the issue with Alexa. In a statement, the company said it will continue to advance ...

Amazon says it's fixed the error that allowed its Alexa assistant to suggest the dangerous "penny challenge" to a girl. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media ...