Old Wii Remotes can still be repurposed as PC air mice, presentation clickers, light gun controllers, or smart home remotes ...

The Google TV app improves on that by letting you control your TV directly from your phone. It connects over Wi-Fi and turns your smartphone into a full-fledged remote for your TV. You can use it to ...

At $20, is the Hori Horipad a worthy cut-price alternative to Nintendo's first-party Pro Controller? Our review compares this wired budget option that holds official Nintendo certification.

For as long as I can remember, even before “affordability” became a prominent theme in American public discourse, politicians and pundits have tracked the prices of homes, gasoline, milk, eggs, and ...

Senate Republicans are concerned that public backlash to President Trump’s handling of the economy and his aggressive deportation policies could give rise to a Democratic wave that not only sweeps ...

Despite some recent improvements in hiring trends, restaurant turnover still hovers above 100 percent annually and labor costs are nearly double the national average. By someestimates, it takes ...

If you work in HR or benefits, you don’t need a headline to tell you costs are up. You see it every renewal. But despite each year being called "unprecedented," it worries me is how many employers and ...

St. Louis Police are now required to get 25 percent of the city's general fund spending. But that's not all. How much will the City of St. Louis spend on policing now that the police are under state ...

Millions of Americans got a nasty reminder this month of just how costly health care coverage is. Workers, Obamacare enrollees and Medicare beneficiaries are all contending with steeper-than-usual ...

Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals such as platinum as catalysts. Scientists have been searching for more ...

As another round of snow heads toward the Capital Region, residents in Niskayuna are making last-minute preparations; clearing off their cars and filling up gro Video shows damage from fire at Berne ...

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