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Apple’s digital assistant Siri has been around for a while now, but in case you’re not a fan of Siri and would like to use a different digital assistant, you’ll be pleased to learn that Amazon’s Alexa app on iOS has finally gotten full voice control. This means that users will actually be able to use their voice to control it.

Prior to this voice control functionality was limited to its Android app, but if you recall Amazon promised its users that the voice control feature would eventually be rolled out to iOS users as well. However the bad news is that in case it wasn’t already obvious, you will need to launch the Alexa app to use it.

This means that unlike Siri which can be accessed anywhere and anytime on the iPhone, Alexa will require you to unlock your phone and launch the app which are additional steps. This isn’t surprising since we doubt that Apple would allow any other digital assistant to usurp Siri’s role in iOS, but if you’re adamant about using Alexa, maybe to control some of your smart home devices, then we guess this is what you’ll have to get used to.

However the Alexa app will provide users with pretty much all the functionality you might expect from it, such as asking it questions, listen to music, access Alexa skills, and so on.

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Over the years Google has made changes and improvements to the way its image search returns results. However according to a report from TechCrunch, Google is testing yet another layout and this one seems to be inspired by Pinterest, as you can see in the screenshot above, so if you do enjoy how Pinterest lays out its content, then this should be good news for you.

For those who aren’t sure what the differences are, basically right now when you do a regular image search, it will surface images and you would have to click on them one by one to see what website it leads to and what it might be used for. With the new Pinterest-style layout, it will already provide users with a caption that tells them what to expect from the website the image is hosted on.

This means that at a glance users will know what to look for without actually having to click them one by one. However as TechCrunch points out, this appears to be a test at the moment which means that not everyone will see it when they do an image search. It is unclear if the company has plans to launch it in full, but they have confirmed that they are testing it.

In a statement made to TechCrunch by a Google spokesperson, “We’re constantly experimenting to improve our experience with Google Images and don’t have anything further to announce at this time.”

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