There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them.

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Ukraine has developed interceptor drones that can be directed from a distance and are capable of hitting targets hundreds ​or ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most TV and device remotes have a limited range. Not just that, but generally, they'll only work reliably at a certain angle. That means your ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a ...

My surround system remote is starting to show its age so I decided to make an IR receiver to save and salvage its codes for future use. These codes will allow me to make a replacement remote, or ...

Amazon's e-commerce site suffered major outages in recent weeks. One outage was linked to internal use of an AI coding tool. Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell proposes new code controls in documents obtained ...

Abstract: Weakly supervised visible (VI)-to-infrared (IR) image translation in remote sensing scenes is a challenging task that attempts to generate corresponding IR images from VI images with ...

Security researchers have urged FreeScout customers to patch a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability which needs no user interaction to achieve full system compromise.

Abstract: Modern infrared (IR) technology has been proven highly significant in remote sensing imagery (RSI). Currently, multimodal RSI object detection based on red-green–blue (RGB)-IR image pairs ...

The Shortcuts Corner section of MacStories Weekly has been a staple of the newsletter for almost a decade at this point. With today’s 500th (!) issue of MacStories Weekly, I thought I’d share a ...