The Daily Populous

Amazon responded to the creepiness today in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware of this and working to fix it.”.

Later on in the day, Amazon said its planned fix will involve disabling the phrase, “Alexa, laugh,” and changing the command to “Alexa, can you laugh?”

Update at 7:05PM ET, 3/7: Added new statement from Amazon clarifying how the company plans to fix Alexa’s creepy laugh. »

A nerve agent was used to try to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter, police have said.

"This is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder, by administration of a nerve agent," he said.

Like the radioactive polonium used to kill Litvinenko, a nerve agent is not normally something criminal gangs or terrorist groups can make. »

The data revealed that the bones have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample.

Her tibia length was estimated from measurements of her clothing in the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University.

A group of researchers, including Jantz, believe she died as a castaway on the island of Nikumaroro. »

The program, co-created by Jantz, is used by nearly every board-certified forensic anthropologist in the US and around the world.

The data revealed that the bones have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample.

Her tibia length was estimated from measurements of her clothing in the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University. »