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Even though the technology has been in use for decades, IR blasters are a key part of today's smart TVs and will be for years to come. Here's why.

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Amazon has announced a new Fire TV accessory called the Fire TV Blaster. It’s a $34.99 IR blaster that’s designed to let you control hardware like your TV set or cable box using Alexa in concert with ...

Samsung has removed many features from its popular Android smartphones over the years. Long gone are the headphone jack, SD card slot, and removable batteries, all of which made Galaxy phones more ...

Many years ago, in a moment of candid honesty, Nilay Patel described how his childhood was somehow defined and irrevocably ruined by an attempt to set up and use an IR blaster. It might also have had ...

Xiaomi has launched a new Google Assistant-powered smart speaker. Called the Xiaomi Smart Speaker IR Control, this device does everything it has in the name. That is, apart from serving as a smart ...

The TV-B-Gone is a well known piece of kit in hacker circles: just point it at a noisy TV in a public space, hit the button, and one of the hundreds of IR remote codes for “Power Off” that it blinks ...