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Google's Home Speaker and several other smart home products have become incredibly sluggish when called.

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Amazon's Vega OS shift blocks regular Fire Stick sideloading, giving buyers a stricter streaming device that may be safer but leaves less room for outside apps, launchers, and customization.

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For better or worse, widgets have become a ubiquitous part of the Android ecosystem, often landing on your phone's home screen whether you want them or not. What started as relatively unobtrusive ...

There's finally a handy app arriving to aid you in setting your smart home Thread mesh network and troubleshooting problems.

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David Henry Hwang revised the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic 25 years ago. Now he gets to remedy some of his own remake’s flaws. By Robert Ito Reporting from Los Angeles When East West Players in Los ...