The Amazon smart microwave is an Alexa Trojan horse

Kitchen conversations usually consist of “what time is dinner ready?” and “it’s your turn to load the dishwasher,” but Amazon’s Alexa-powered microwave hopes to change all that. It’s easy to joke at the idea of a voice-controlled appliance, certainly one which counts proactively reordering popcorn among its key talents, but the AmazonBasics Microwave is more important than you might think. …