An Amazon Echo Can't Call the PoliceBut Maybe It Should

Published: July 18, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

Despite what you may have heard, an Amazon Echo did not call the police earlier this week, when it heard a husband threatening his wife with a gun in New Mexico. On Monday, news reports took Bernalillo County authorities' version of those events credulously, heralding the home assistant as a hero.