Why you should always be polite when talking to Amazon's Alexa

Amazon's Alexa has become a staple in British homes, where families depend on her thankless work playing music, predicting the weather and reciting recipes on demand. But now a top neuropsychologist has warned that parents should start to treat the voice assistant with a little more respect by getting into the habit of saying "please" and "thank you" when making commands, to avoid raising a badly behaved child. Dr Laura Phillips, of the Child Mind Institute, said: "There is a broader movement toward communicating through and with machines rather than people, which is a different style of communication. "It could be dangerous if we do not make sure that children are developing the social use...