Remote controls help us manage various electronics around our homes, from gaming controllers to controls for TVs, ceiling fans, and other household gadgets. However, they're often overlooked when it ...

Your TV remote is probably the number one gadget you hate losing. Without it, watching TV is just so inconvenient. You'd either have to get up from the couch to push the buttons on the back of the TV, ...

Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...

YOUR Sky TV remote probably has a few tricks you didn’t know about. We reveal some of the hidden meanings behind lesser-used Sky buttons. The Sky Q Touch remote is the one with the big touch circle in ...

Remote controls help us manage various electronics around our homes, from gaming controllers to controls for TVs, ceiling fans, and other household gadgets. However, they're often overlooked when it ...

As Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other players all battle for control of the boxes and the content ecosystems that sit next to your television, there’s an equally important fight to sell ...

IF your Amazon Fire TV Stick is acting up, there's a simple fix to try. It's an easy solution if your Fire TV device seems to have crashed – and nothing seems to fix it. Sometimes it's hard to know ...

Bad user interfaces really irritate me. Some of them are so irritating, in fact, that I've decided to start awarding User Interface Booby Prizes. If you perked up at the mention of "booby," sorry to ...

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