The new Matter standard is getting better at helping Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings play nice with each other, but it often does so at the expense of finer-grained features.
Some Matter-enabled smart lights, for example, can be turned on or off via Matter or change their color, but Matter controllers might not be able to access
Know what’s the best thing to fit in that spot just beneath your monitors? A mini PC! Free up all that space taken up by your laptop and get more performance while you’re at it with something like this Acemagic F1A mini PC that’s on sale for $382 on Amazon. That
Tariffs here, tariffs there. No matter where you stand, one thing is true: consumer tech prices are going to go up since most consumer tech isn’t made within the United States. That’s why you might want to stock up now while you can, on things like this 100W Baseus USB-C cabl
When you surf, you leave many different traces. For example, servers and web services store information about you in cookies and super-cookies. The more often you use a provider’s service, the more accurate their picture of you becomes. And the better the providers are networked with each other, the more information they have at their disposal to create surfing profi
Valve was working on the Steam Deck for a long time, pouring its successes and failures from the Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Link into one portable device. We know this because Valve showed off a bunch of prototypes leading up to the final Steam Deck—and it looks like one of those prototypes somehow managed to slip the surly bonds of Bellevue and make
One of my favorite hidden-gem VPNs, IPVanish, has just announced a slew of exciting privacy-focused updates.
The first is the rollout of a brand new Trust Center, which will provide users with a single place to easily access all of IPVanish’s data-handling practices and us
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a test of Copilot Vision on PCs, a new feature that gives Windows the ability to “see” what you’re looking at on your PC and suggest some next steps you can take.
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No one wants to spend more than they have to right now…meaning that it might have been an opportune time for AMD to debut its latest Ryzen 8000 Core HX mobile processors for gaming notebooks, which lack some of the features of the Ryzen 9000 series.
Essentially, the new Ryzen 8000 HX series, known as Dragon Range Refresh, is quite similar to the “Dragon Ran