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ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report
ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report If you're not watching for the game, watch Super Bowl LVI for New Jersey. Amazon's Alexa commercial starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost was apparently filmed in Montclair, according to Montclair Local. Is Alexa reading minds a good idea? No. No it is not. Watch now and starting 2/9, vote for your favorite ad on Ad Meter! https://admeter.usatoday.com/amazon To be exact, in a house on Eagle Rock Way, owned by Eleanor Walter up until 2018. “It was fun but jarring to see ScarJo and Colin Jost waking up in my old bedroom, which looks about the same as it did when we lived there,” Wa…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring
Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon's web hosting subsidiary apparently suffered a worldwide outage Tuesday morning. Reports of the Amazon Web Service outage began rolling in around 10:20 a.m., DownDetector.com shows. The outage caused a ripple effect across platforms that rely on AWS such as Alexa, Amazon Music, Netflix and Disney Plus. “Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, which may be impacting your service,” it says. Nearly 28,000 users had reported an outage as of 12:30 p.m. Amazon was apparently investigating.

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus
Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus Amazon Fresh will be opening a Paramus location. The online retailer's new brick and mortar supermarket will replace the Fashion Center's Fairway Market on E. Ridgewood Avenue, a company spokesperson told Daily Voice Thursday. Amazon last year announced it would be opening a grocery store at the shuttered Fairway Market in Woodland Park. Amazon opened a pair of its innovative supermarkets last August Woodland Hills and Irvine, CA. The new Paramus and Woodland Park locations will offer similar experiences. The Amazon Dash Cart is a small cart that allows shoppers to skip the checkout line,…

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by Cecilia Levine
Business
SNEAK PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market SNEAK PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market
Sneak PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market An in-store Alexa, Dash Carts and Order Ahead are just some of the features of the Amazon Fresh, recently approved for the former site of Fairway Market on Route 46. Amazon opened a pair of the innovative supermarket last August Woodland Hills and Irvine, CA, which opened in August.  The one coming to Woodland Park will be similar to those, NorthJersey.com reports. Here's what you can expect.  The Amazon Dash Cart, for example, allows shoppers to to skip the checkout line, and Alexa features to assist with shopping lists and better navigate the aisles, the Amazon websit…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners
Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners "Alexa, what's five minus three?" A Paterson 6-year-old was caught asking that math question and more to his new Alexa. His mom Yerelyn Cueva, 24, posted the video of him on Twitter -- which had 8.2 million hits as of Friday morning. Cueva said she was in the living room last week when she overhead her son, Jariel, asking the Alexa Echo some math questions, according to the New York Post. "What you don’t see is after he says, ‘Thank you, Alexa, for helping me with my homework,'" she told the news outlet. "I'm going to have to get rid of Alexa," she said on Instagram.

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing
Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing Hey Daily Voice readers! There's no reason local news should be left out of your Alexa Flash Briefing, and it doesn't have to be if you download the Daily Voice Flash Briefing from Amazon by clicking here. We need your help to test our new Alexa app and want your feedback. Available since early February, we now invite all our Alexa-enabled readers to give it a try. Let us know how it works, what you don't like about it, and, especially, what you do! "I use it everyday myself to get a quick summary of what's going on in local news as I start my day," said Daily Voice President Ted…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz