Amazon's Alexa can now control your kitchen

Amazon's popular Alexa personal assistant can already order you a pizza or call an Uber to take you to a restaurant. Now, she can help you cook dinner at home. Thanks to some help from engineers at GE, Alexa has learned how to preheat an oven, set cook timers, and tell you when your laundry will be dry--all using voice recognition. It's the first full suite of appliances that Alexa can control. "Voice is something that's been on our radar for quite a long time, because we saw the value of having an extra hand in the kitchen," said Bill Gardner, Program Manager for Alexa Integration at GE Appliances.