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Best smart plugs 2025: Transform your dumb outlets into smart sockets

September 10, 2025
Thinking of dipping your toe into the smart home waters? Installing a smart plug is the easiest and least expensive way to get a feel for how the technology can improve your life. Plug one into your wall, plug a lamp or a small appliance into the smart plug, connect it to your home network with the manufacturer’s mobile app, and you’ll be ready to experience all the advantages of hands-free…
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12 tweaks that make your Windows PC lean, mean, and fast

September 9, 2025
If the storage space on the C drive is running low, every free gigabyte counts. Windows often occupies more than 25 GB of space for things such as updates, restore points, and cache files. Plus, pre-installed bloatware further increases memory utilization. Freeing up memory can quickly become critical on notebooks with 128 GB SSDs or devices with soldered memory. But even on well-equipped systems…
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Valve trademarks the ‘Steam Frame,’ but what the heck is it?

September 5, 2025
After the smash hit that is the Steam Deck, all eyes are on Valve for its next hardware move. Another stab at virtual reality? A console to take on Sony and Nintendo? (Oh, Microsoft, what’s up, didn’t see you there.) A new trademark filing for the “Steam Frame” has gamers and press alike turning the speculation up to 11. And yeah, I couldn’t resist doing some of my own. The United…
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These eye-popping smart lights boast built-in AI microphones

September 5, 2025
Smart lights that react to voice commands spoken to smart speakers are old hat, but a smart light with a built-in AI microphone? That’s a new twist. Showing off its wares at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, Germany-based smart device manufacturer Lepro is teeing up…
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Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all

September 4, 2025
For almost a year, the future of the world’s most popular web browser has been a question mark. After the United States declared Google an illegal monopoly in online search, federal prosecutors put forth a forced divestment of Chrome as one possible legal remedy. The case is now resolved, pending appeal, and Google won’t have to sell Chrome. (That rush of wind you just felt is a giant sigh of…
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