Here’s How to Bring some Star Trek in Your Life with Alexa’s Help

Amazon has updated its personal voice assistant to recognize and accept a new wake word that will make many Star Trek fans rejoice: Computer. If you are a Star Trek fan and you have an Echo device, then you are probably already telling me to get to the instructions faster. If not, then you should know that “Computer” was one of the trigger words on Star Trek which was used by crew members to interact with the voice controlled systems in the series. Since this has been happening since the ‘60s, you are bound to have heard it at least once. Well, back to our story. You can now tell your Echo device this same word to wake up Amazon’s personal assistant. So here’s what you need to do. Step by step First up, you open the Alexa app on your phone. Then, you have to slide out the navigation panel on the left and tap the Settings button. Once in the new menu, you will have to tap the device that you want to change. The next step is to scroll way down an...