برچسب: Hardware
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Roku Is Experimenting With a New Way to Force You to Watch Ads
Ads are an unavoidable part of modern life. They support both free and discounted services, for better or for worse, and unless you pay for premium services like YouTube Premium or expensive Netflix tiers , it’s likely you’ll run into these commercials one way or another. But just because ads are deeply entwined in our…
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Why You Might Want to Avoid the Latest Chromecast Update
Chromecast as a brand has been going through it. Second-gen Chromecast and Chromecast Audio have been plagued with a strange glitch that essentially leaves these devices unusable. Users are not happy. Google, for their part, has advised not to factory reset the devices as a workaround, saying that the company is working on an official…
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How to Keep Listening to Audio After Your Boox Palma Goes to Sleep
My Boox Palma is one of the most easily lovable pieces of tech I’ve ever used —an e-ink reader with a phone-like form factor that isn’t locked down to one specific retailer’s ecosystem. It has helped me read more and waste time on social media less, but as much as I appreciate it, it can…
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Lenovo Is Showing off a Bunch of Quirky Laptop Prototypes
Journalists love a good tech prototype. These exciting experiments break up the monotony of covering the same incremental refreshes day-in and day-out.They also come with a downside: As attention grabbing as they are, there’s no guarantee that they’ll ever actually come to market. That’s why covering them can be a bit tricky, as it can…
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Seven Clever Ways You Should Be Using Your Smart Lights
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Smart lights were there at the beginning of the smart home tech revolution, and over the years, these clever bulbs and LED strips have gradually evolved to offer more by way of both features and form factors—so much so that you might not be aware…
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How to Get Your Hands on One of Nvidia's New Graphics Cards
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Soon after Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 and 5090 gaming GPUs went up for sale at the end of January, they sold out pretty quickly—which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has tried to buy one of the company’s graphics cards before. According to PC…
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Six Factors to Consider When Choosing a Streaming Device
We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you’re looking for a flexible option for streaming your favorite content, you’ll want to consider a portable streaming device, like a streaming stick or a streaming box, over a smart TV. Narrowing it down from there depends on a few different factors, so I’ve…
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The Boox Note Max Is a Beast of a Digital Notebook
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Chances are good that if you’ve ever owned an e-reader, it was one of the many varieties of the Amazon Kindle. But though the Kindle is the most ubiquitous e-reader, that doesn’t mean it’s the best—nor does it mean that other companies haven’t bettered Amazon…
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T-Mobile Is Expanding Its Starlink Beta to Everyone
T-Mobile is offering beta access to Starlink for anyone in the United States—potentially. Here’s the scoop: Back in December , T-Mobile announced a partnership between itself and SpaceX to bring Starlink service to customers. Then, last month , the company started accepting users into the beta, but only those with specific, recent Samsung devices. Things…