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If you enjoy building or tinkering with electronics, this hacking tool can help you get wildly creative with your projects, and make it a lot easier to test them. It's called the Kode Dot, and not ...

The ESP32-C6 is cheap, but it's the Swiss Army Knife of smart home microcontrollers.

As an editor and writer who has contributed to many national and local publications, Nicole Gregory enjoys communicating clearly on critical health topics so that readers can make informed choices for ...

People who wear hearing aids often struggle to hear audio from cell phones, televisions, computers, and other personal audio devices. Bluetooth hearing aids help solve that problem — they bring the ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...

Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give a ...

Espressif’s popular ESP32 microchip, found in over a billion devices, has been caught with its digital trousers down, thanks to an undocumented "backdoor" lurking in its Bluetooth firmware. For those ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Bluetooth 5.0 was officially announced almost nine years ago. The wireless technology has undergone several updates up to the current version (5.4), but we had to wait a long time for the next big ...

There are definitely some expensive Bluetooth adapters, but they're relatively few and far between, and usually offer an especially luxurious feature set and ...