At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Support for a high number of users TCL’s new smart-home app is a dramatic improvement Lots of features for the price Cons Deadbolt feels a bit wobbly Doesn’t support recurring credentials The doorbell feels superfluous Our Verdict This budget smart lock doesn’t skimp on features, although reservations over the …
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Image: Rob Schultz / IDG Aside from an over-the-air antenna, an over-the-air DVR is a must-have tool in the life of a cord-cutter. With an over-the-air DVR, you can record shows from an antenna, rewind live TV broadcasts, and even fast-forward through commercials. Some DVRs can even stream video to multiple TVs or even let …
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Image: Google Google has unveiled its favorite Chrome browser extensions for 2025. This year’s list is not ranked but is dominated by AI. It is divided into three categories. AI companions Google specifically highlights Monica and Sider, two all-in-one tools that help you summarize web pages, analyze PDFs and write text directly in the browser. …
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Nvidia is reactivating a feature that many of you may have already written off: The new Game Ready driver 591.44 brings back PhysX support for selected older games. For owners of a GeForce RTX 50 graphics card, this is a very relevant change — especially if you enjoy playing classic games with elaborate physics effects. …
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(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future) Was 2025 a boring year for smartphones? Thin phones flopped, big time. The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold elicited a collective yawn from my colleagues. Phones are boring! I hear them say as they gaze into Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses or get sucked into Steam Decks. Phones aren’t as new …
Populating a single one-gigawatt AI facility costs nearly $80 billion Planned AI capacity across the industry could total 100GW High-end GPU hardware must be replaced every five years without extension IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna questions whether the current pace and scale of AI data center expansion can ever remain financially sustainable under existing assumptions. …
(Image credit: ShapeShift) Europol dismantled a $700M crypto laundering network Raids in Cyprus, Germany, and Spain seized $1.7M in assets and arrested nine Scammers used fraudulent platforms, pressure tactics, and deepfake celebrity ads to lure thousands of victims Europol and multiple national law enforcement agencies recently took down a cryptocurrency and money laundering network worth …
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(Image credit: Shutterstock) Critical React flaw (CVE-2025-55182) enables pre-auth RCE in React Server Components Affects versions 19.0–19.2.0 and frameworks like Next, React Router, Vite; patches released in 19.0.1, 19.1.2, 19.2.1 Experts warn exploitation is imminent with near 100% success rate; urgent upgrades strongly advised React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, which powers …
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(Image credit: Apple) If you’re still looking to save on a pricey Apple gadget for the holidays, then you’ve come to the right place. Luckily for you, there are still record-low Black Friday prices available on AirPods, iPads, the Apple Watch, MacBooks, and more, and I’ve rounded up the 11 best for you on this …
This Future of Marketing Briefing covers the latest in marketing for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Friday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → Programmatic marketers may not understand AI but they’re even more unsure of themselves. That was the undercurrent at this week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in New …