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Alexa can do a whole lot you didn’t realize, like share a photo of you. Yes, really.

You can take and send a photo to a contact or Echo device with a screen, like the Echo Show.

• Open the Alexa app. tap Communicate > the Share camera icon.
• Tap Camera and take your selfie.
• Select a contact or device and tap Share.

🧊 That’s just the tip of the iceberg: 14 more Alexa commands to try

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You probably have thousands of photos on your phone eating up space, and you want to preserve those memories. IDrive is the perfect solution for backing up and protecting all your precious photos and videos. Use it to back up all your devices: PCs, Macs, servers, iPhones, Android phones and more. Sync everything to one account. 

IDrive is like an insurance policy for your data. Plans start at less than $7 a month.

Every now and then I share what I call digital life hacks here in my column. They're quick tips and tricks that make life a little better, help you save money, or teach you something new to wow your friends and family. I'm back with five new tricks, starting with my method to get anyone to open an email — and respond to it.

Not wanting to spend hard-earned money on a new webcam? You might not realize it, but you already have a perfectly good one built right into your smartphone. All it takes to add webcam features like those you'll find on a laptop is one of these super-simple apps.

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Astronauts are about to go back to the moon. While there are plenty of technical difficulties that NASA will have to address, one of the biggest ones is being able to keep astronauts breathing. To do that, they need oxygen. So, can we get it from the moon itself?