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This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst making repairs to laptop internals, ...

I am giving away my age by saying that in elementary school we watched all of the Mercury launches and sometimes the landings, if that is what you call parachuting into the ocean (I don't recall live ...

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Home security systems—once the exclusive domain of high-priced professional installers—have never been more affordable, and the hardware and software is simpler, more intuitive, and easier to set up ...

Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but ...

New Yorkers can help choose the state's "coolest thing" of the year through an annual contest that runs through mid-September. The Business Council of New York State's 2025 "Coolest Thing Made in New ...