A smart speaker makes for an easy first step into smart home technology. Before you kit out your house with thousands of dollars of lighting and security upgrades, you can familiarize yourself with voice-assistant technology while enjoying music, podcasts, and news in a hands-free home environment. Here are our top picks in several categories. If…
USB-C is the one connection to rule them all. Its popularity has made USB-C a common sight on new monitors. A USB-C monitor can act as USB hub, giving you additional ports for connecting various USB devices, but the monitor’s USB-C port can also serve as a video-input alternative to HDMI or DisplayPort; and some…
Deep within LG Display’s Paju facility, in a room most employees have forgotten exists, sits a 15-inch screen that shouldn’t be working. When engineers fired it up last month for a heritage documentation project, they expected perhaps a flicker and maybe some color degradation—the inevitable decay of organic compounds exposed to fifteen years of molecular…
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 models could get a new coating on the display, a new report suggests. The iPhone 17 series is expected to launch in the second week of September. While the possible launch timeline is weeks away, leaks about the lineup are flooding on internet. The report suggests that the new display coating could be…
Matrox returns with dual-GPU card built for synchronized multi-display setupsA380 Octal supports up to eight 5K screens and high-end audioQuad version offers fewer outputs, less power, for simpler installations One of Nvidia’s earliest rivals, Matrox was well known in the 1990s for its high-quality graphics cards. Although it eventually moved away from the mainstream gaming…
LG TVs are getting Xbox cloud gamingThe app is coming to WebOS 24-compatible TVsAll you’ll need is Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and a controller Microsoft has been on a mission as of late to brand everything from here to there an Xbox, mostly off the back of the company’s cloud streaming efforts. The latest Xbox?…
