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Smart home gadgets are designed to make life simpler. Forget to lock your front door? All you have to do is remotely log into the companion app on your smartphone and hit a button. That said, while setup and operation should be straightforward, it’s a different story with devices that are connected to your home Wi-Fi. We’ve complied a list of the most common smart ho

At IFA in Germany, every laptop maker is strutting their stuff on the conference floor. It’s hard for any one of them to stand out, since most are just refreshed designs with a few internal upgrades.
But a couple of Asus’s latest models caught my eye, mostly because they’re packing solid hardware based on Qualcomm’s Arm platforms at competitive prices.

Qualcomm launched a pair of 8-core variants of the Snapdragon X Plus Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin, expanding the reach of Windows on Arm products into what Qualcomm says will be the $700 to $900 range.
The Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chips, as they’re known, are also referred to by their two cryptic product number, the X1P-46-100 and X1P-42-100. They si

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One of the many questions surrounding Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors has always been: Is it just a mobile processor? Qualcomm has hinted before that it isn’t, but the company’s chief executive just gave the strongest indication that a desktop chip truly is in the cards.
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Acer’s Nitro series of gaming laptops is one of the best sellers on the market, probably because it frequently dips below $1,000 despite all kinds of solid specs.
At IFA 2024, Acer is showing off two new Nitro variants, plus its own take on the increasingly crowded portable gaming handheld market. Just call it Acer’s Steam Deck, because everyone else will.