Amazon wants to minimize the impediments its customers face in using its services. A new tool for Alexa skills that is described in Amazon's developer blog enables the smart voice assistant to answer customers' natural language questions. Soon users won't need to query using the prescribed "Alexa-speak." The company's goal is to make Alexa friction-free. Similar to one-click ordering, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Go, removing barriers to customer interaction with Alexa will encourage more engagement.

A stunning drone-shot video shows a great white shark swimming off a Southern California beach. The drone footage was shot by Tyler Martindale, reports KEYT News Channel 3. Martindale says that the huge predator was about 656 feet south of Santa Claus Beach in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County. The video, which was shot on Saturday morning, clearly shows the shark swimming back and forth. Martindale said that the shark was about 10 feet long. While the great white was far away, it was still close enough to swim closer to the shore, according to Martindale.