Month: November 2023
I review smart lights for a living – these Philips Hue Black Friday deals are unmissable
We’re just a few days from the official Black Friday deals, but there’s already plenty of excitement underway from various brands and retailers – and smart light fans will delight at Philips Hue’s savings. While I’ve not spotted any record low prices just yet, many of this year’s deals come…
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Nothing Chat took a shot at iMessage, but it’s taken down Sunbird instead
From the annals of “what could go wrong?” comes the tale of Nothing’s calamitous efforts to circumvent Apple‘s iMessage green bubble wall with an app that could mask Android messages in fake blue bubble goodness. This plan went about as well as you would expect, and now Nothing’s partner is…
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A24’s Dream Scenario is a shapeshifting parable about our obsessions with viral fame
There are so many different factors at play when it comes to how viral sensations go viral that it can be hard to pinpoint what, exactly, made the people behind them interesting in the first place. But in Dream Scenario, A24’s new dark comedy from writer / director Kristoffer Borgli,…
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Bad business is breaking the smart home — good regulation can fix it
The smart home is still broken, and surprisingly, interoperability isn’t the issue. The problem is, when it comes to connected devices, consumers are buying hardware that behaves like software. And unlike hardware, which fails in fairly predictable and established ways, software breaks in opaque and surprising ways. It’s hard to…
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8BitDo’s NES-style keyboard has returned to its lowest price yet
Let’s be honest: most keyboards are boring necessities that you’re not likely to find at the top of anybody’s Christmas wishlist. But every now and then, a keyboard comes along that’s so cool, anyone could get excited about it. 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard is one of those unicorns, and right…
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The US government wants to offer better cybersecurity to major infrastructure firms
The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is expanding its managed cybersecurity services to critical infrastructure entities in a bid to further safeguard key platforms. The organization said its security project had proved a significant success so far, and that expanding it will not only help stress-test its…
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