What time is the royal wedding? Alexa, Google and Siri want to tell you

SAN FRANCISCO – Alexa's been studying up on the royal wedding. So go ahead, ask the Amazon assistant everything your heart desires about the upcoming marriage of American actress Meghan Markle to Britain's Prince Harry. Amazon's artificial intelligence-infused Alexa digital assistant routinely gears up for blockbuster occasions, which the May 19 union of British and Hollywood royalty promises to be. Since November, the Amazon group that preps Alexa for news and cultural events has been adding answers and information so that no one gets the dreaded "Here's what I found on the web" answer in a response to questions ranging from "Who's going to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle?" to "What time is the royal wedding?" Google Assistant, with its Google Home rival to Alexa, isn't far behind when thrown the same types of questions. In our tests, Apple's Siri drew blanks on most of them, in terms of reading the answers aloud.