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TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.

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