IR blasters are important for smart TVs, though the underlying technology is older. IR provides a reliable, affordable way for connecting TVs to other devices.

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

Thanks to modern LED bulbs, light is cheaper than ever to make—except for one particular kind. Three University of Chicago scientists have announced an innovative way to create infrared light, which ...

Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated 94 million US ...

Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

Cruise control is available in most new vehicles. Adaptive Cruise Control adjusts your speed based on how close you are to other vehicles. Driving on the freeway for long distances can get a bit ...

Marc Santos is a Guides Staff Writer from the Philippines with a BA in Communication Arts and over six years of experience in writing gaming news and guides. He plays just about everything, from ...

The US military is close to fielding two new weapons, called Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminal, designed to temporally jam Chinese and Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ...

A China-based threat group known as Storm-2603 has added a new weapon to its hacking arsenal. Cisco Talos researchers observed Storm-2603 abusing Velociraptor, an open source digital forensics and ...

On 8 September 2025, the European Commission adopted amendments to Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2021/821 (EU Dual-Use Regulation) and published a Delegated Regulation, updating the EU’s dual-use control ...

You'd think a remote control technology that was first introduced in the 1980s would be completely obsolete by now. But infrared (IR) remotes are still very much kicking half a century later, despite ...

The Amazon Fire TV Stick is basically a streaming device. It comes with a remote, some cables and batteries, and an HDMI-CEC, which is technically the Fire Stick part. From it, you can use apps like ...