How to customize your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing

Alexa, what’s in the news?

That’s a question you can ask your Amazon Echo every single day and receive a custom report based on what you want to hear about. Cut out the fluff, keep the good stuff.

Thanks to the Alexa skills catalog, there are a number of different news sources you can call upon to tailor your Flash Briefing to your particular tastes. It’s really easy to set up, too.

Here’s what you need to know.

How to set up an Alexa Flash Briefing

Open the Alexa app on your phone or tablet.
Open the side menu.
Select Settings.
Select Flash Briefing.
Enable the sources you want to hear the news from by sliding the toggles to on.

If you’re looking for more sources, there’s a handy link here also, just select get more Flash Briefing content and you’ll be sent straight to compatible Alexa skills.

How to add new sources to the Flash Briefing

Open the Alexa app on your phone or tablet.
Open the side menu.
Select Settings.

Select Flash Briefing.

Tap Get more Flash Briefing content.
Select new source such as Associated Press.
Tap Enable.
To change the order of the source in the briefing, tap Manage in Briefing (optional).

To hear your Flash Briefing it’s as simple as saying:

Alexa, what’s in the news?

How to change the order of your Flash Briefing sources

Alexa will now deliver the content for each of your enabled Flash Briefing sources, one by one. You can also alter the order in which you hear the content contained within your Flash Briefing.

Open the Alexa app on your phone or tablet.
Open the side menu.
Select Settings.

Select Flash Briefing.

In the top right, tap edit order.
Drag your sources to the desired order.

Follow these simple steps and you’ll have your very own news bulletin every day!

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Elon Musk says all Superchargers will run on solar and battery power

According to a tweet from Elon Musk this morning, Tesla’s Supercharger stations are all being converted to solar and battery power. Musk added that eventually, most of them will be completely disconnected from the electricity grid.

This move comes after an announcement earlier this year that the company would be doubling its network of Superchargers, bringing their total number up to 10,000 by the year’s end. And with so many of its highly in-demand Model 3 cars set to begin shipping by the end of 2017, more Superchargers are going to be necessary. In April, the company said that some of the new Superchargers would be solar powered, but this is the first we’ve heard about a plan to convert them all.

All Superchargers are being converted to solar/battery power. Over time, almost all will disconnect from the electricity grid.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2017

As of last week, Tesla had begun construction on or obtained permits for over 40 additional Supercharger stations. But it’s unclear how many of those will be built with solar arrays.

Musk didn’t expound on when these conversions would begin or how long they would take to complete. Engadget has reached out to Tesla to confirm the statement.

Via: Electrek

Source: Elon Musk