The has controlled the speaker niche for nearly two years. But now, there's a second contender: . Both can control smart home devices, play music, answer random questions, and tell you all about ...

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Smart devices like the Amazon Echo record snippets of conversation when they're being used. NPR's Scott Simon asks Scott Stein of CNET to explain what happens to the data that is collected. Police in ...