WithCyber Monday dealseverywhere, we’ve spotted some fantastic offers on Amazon Fire TV Sticks with products starting from just $18. The discounts include the Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K so there’s something for everyone here. These are just some of the manyAmazon Cyber Monday dealscurrently out there with many moreCyber Monday smart home dealsavailable if you feel like making your home a little smarter in the coming weeks....

Are you looking for ways to improve your home office? If you’re after quality and wouldn’t mind spending a fair bit of cash, you can’t go wrong with Apple. But which device to choose? Depends on your need. If you want the full desktop experience in an infinitely more lightweight and portable package, there’s no better choice than the 13.3-inchMacBook Air. Or if you want something even more portable that’s great for digital design and other creative work, opt for the 11- or 12....

The Continue Watching row on the home screen is one new improvement to Amazon Fire TV, with others coming in early 2024.Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Good news, everyone! Amazon already has tipped its hand as to what’s in store for Fire TV in 2024. At least, some of what’s in store. Flashback to September 2023 at its fall products announcements at HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, when Amazon showed off new hardware with new features — specifically, the refreshed Fire TV Stick Max 4K and along with it, the latest Ambient Experience....

Allroad is to Audi whatCross Countryis to Volvo: Jacked-up station wagons with plastic body cladding designed to lure buyers away from SUVs. Audi has been making its Allroad models for 20 years now, and the latest in the line is the redesigned 2020 A6 Allroad. The wagon gets some new tech, including features normally found on dedicatedoff-roaders. While many wagons bypass the United States, the Allroad will return to these shores for the new model year....

See 24-hours-later update below. Well,it happened. Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, has plummeted from a recent high of more than $1,200 to less than $500. The drop comes after China’s central bank reportedly ordered all third-party payment processing companies to halt transactions involving digital currencies. BTC China, the country’s largest Bitcoin exchange, announced on Weibo, the Chinese social network, that it would no longer be able to accept new deposits in the Chinese Yuan currency....

Blizzard is reportedly working on aWarcraftspinoff that resembles the massively popularPokémon Go, amid criticism against its recently announced mobile game,Diablo Immortal. The project is currently in development under one of Blizzard’s incubation teams, according to an in-depthreportby Kotaku on the past, present, and future of theDiablofranchise that cited 11 current and former Blizzard employees as sources. One of the developers revealed that there are “lots of mobile game players at Blizzard,” with a good number ofPokémon Goenthusiasts....

If you think it’s a pain to get cell reception when you visit your relatives in another state, just imagine trying to communicate with people who are at least 40 million miles away and are constantly moving relative to you. That’s what we’ll have to deal with if we plan to send humans to Mars, when communications won’t just be important – they’ll be vital. To find out how to create a communications network that covers Mars and beyond, and how current systems are being upgraded to meet the challenge of ever-increasing amounts of data, we spoke to two experts who work on NASA’s current communications system – one on the Earth side and one on the Mars side....

Fortnite players claim one simple feature would drastically improve cosmetics Fortnite players are calling for a simple customization feature to make back blings and other accessories fit skins better. Fortnite dishes out a ton of cosmetics in the Item Shop, from skins to backblings and beyond. More often than not, though, these backblings don’t stick properly to skins, even when they come in the same bundle. This leads to floating cosmetics that detract from the game’s visual appeal....

Since 1993, the US Air Force has made its Global Positioning System (GPS) available to the world, and ever since then that technology has found its way into many facets of our everyday lives. It’s in ourcars, in ourphones, and even in our watches. It’s not surprising then that the United States continues to invest in the development of the technology for both civilian and military use — and that investment is beginning to pay off....

Amazon has made dozens of updates and improvements to its Echo system to not only make it more functional, but also to makeAlexa sound more human. The result so far has been to change her originally somewhat drab voice into a much more pleasant, natural-sounding one. Now even more improvements have been made on that front. At the re:Mars conference, Amazon demonstrated the implementation of a new feature: The ability to ask Alexa a series of questions without repeating her name each and every time....

If you use one of thebest web browsers, you may have some privacy concerns. After all, web cookies have garnered something of a maligned reputation. While it’s true that they can sometimes be used to for more nefarious activities such as tracking your internet behavior, cookies themselves aren’t the problem. In fact, cookies are an important part of surfing the world wide web, serving as local data banks created by the web browser for each website you visit....

In the corporate world, it’s not uncommon for companies to invest heavily in phone systems that route calls, handle voicemails, and ensure employees can get work done wherever they are. But in many cases, those phone systems are complicated, expensive, and need regular maintenance. For many small businesses, in other words, they just don’t work. In their place, companies like 8×8, Ooma, and others all offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services that aim at simplifying corporate phone systems and reducing the total cost to small businesses....

There are two main types of electrical current that flow through your home: Alternating and direct. The vast majority of devices around you are powered by alternating current. By allowing electrons to ebb and flow through your home’s wires, it’s possible to quickly meet shifting electrical demands. However, once upon a time, direct current was the standard, and it wasn’t until the conclusion of a decade-long feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison that the world settled on AC....