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Home automation is expensive and complicated, but universal remotes are easy. The IR-Remote Control Power Strip lets you use universal remotes on any electronics, blinking lamps and speakers on and ...

If you grew up with adults telling you to unplug appliances to save electricity, it turns out, they weren't being dramatic — those appliances can continue to drain energy, even if you power them off.

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New censorship rules state for the first time that users can be held liable for liking videos deemed harmful or illegal by government officials. Like a regular Joe transformed into a superhero through ...

There was a day when the television, in it's less than 19 inch glory, was something that was physically interacted with. Basically, we had to get up to change the channel. I'm just old enough to have ...