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I can’t figure out how to watch my brother’s TV. He’s explained it to me a hundred times, but that’s the curse of the baby-sitting uncle: It’s harder to work a remote control than it is to change a ...

If you own a smart TV, then you probably have streamer buttons on your remote control. This handy feature allows you to easily jump from an app like Netflix to Disney+, without having to escape back ...

Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...

How much would you pay to watch a replay of a great play, or skip a bunch of television commercials? And should you have to? Those are a couple of the questions raised by a newly surfaced Microsoft ...

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Canadian smart lighting company Nanoleaf does everything a little differently. Its LED Light Panels (which made my favorite tech of 2017 list) are flat, interlocking and made to be mounted on a wall.

Some men spend huge amounts of time souping up their cars. Others delight in enhancing their pectoral muscles. I, however, get my kicks from making disparate gadgets work in tandem. And if that ...