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Amazon Alexa suffered a Christmas crash in Europe amid a surge in new users
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December 26, 2018
New users of Amazon Alexa suffered a bit of a Christmas crash on Tuesday when the server for the device crashed during an outage in Europe, prompting several to receive a message that the system wasn't working.
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Amazon Alexa suffered a Christmas crash in Europe amid a surge in new users
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December 26, 2018
New users of Amazon Alexa suffered a bit of a Christmas crash on Tuesday when the server for the device crashed during an outage in Europe, prompting several to receive a message that the system wasn't working.
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