Samsung’s pitch at IFA 2025 is no longer a string of discrete product launches — it’s the outline of a single, connected platform that stretches from the living room TV to the kitchen fridge and the phone in your pocket, and it asks consumers to treat those devices as parts of one “AI Home.”...
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Hey guys,
So I've been messing around with turning my old desktop into a smart home controller and honestly it's been a bit of a nightmare. Been lurking here for ages but finally decided to post because I'm pulling my hair out.
What I'm dealing with: Got an older Dell Optiplex running Windows...
Today's Hardware Friday is of a kind I've not seen before. Sure, we've seen the Chat to Hardware, Hardware to Chat projects, but I don't think I've seen that uses Lync and the Unified Communications Web API.
Plus I've missing blogging about .Net Gadgeteer projects... :)
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