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Warchi / Getty Images Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep to stay in business. It might be its customer list, proprietary source code, next-gen product plans or even the secret sauce for its sandwiches, but they all need to be protected from hackers, snoops and industrial spies. The best way to keep these things—and every other confidential item—under wraps is to hide them in plain sight by encrypting them. The mathematical magic of encryption means that only those with the correct key can unscramble its contents and open the file. The odds are heavil...

Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide If good things come in small packages, then the truism reigns supreme in the case of the Envoy Pro Elektron. It’s small, it’s good–by good I mean it’s rugged, fits easily in a shirt pocket, and delivers 1GBps reads and writes over SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps. (If you’re not up to speed to the latest USB naming conventions, that’s USB 3.X Gen 2.)  Design and specs  The Envoy Pro Elektron is a small, silvery rectangle measuring 2-inches wide (the site says 2.1), by 3-inches long, by 0.5-inches thick. The bottom is h...

Fingerprint-reading door locks aren’t known for their affordability, but startup BrillLock is aiming to change that with this new system, which recently completed a Kickstarter launch with more than $30,000 in backing. Although it’s a crowd-funded project (without even an official website as yet), the lock was sent to me for review in its reportedly finished, ready-to-ship form. TechHive doesn’t otherwise cover Kickstarter products. Before we dig into what it is and how it works, let’s start with a discussion of what BrillLock isn’t. First, it isn’t a deadbolt like most smart loc...

Show More Smart Christmas tree lights generally do little more than let you turn them on and off with voice commands, but Twinkly’s string lights take the smarts to a new level. Packed with a few dozen effects plus the ability to create your own, Twinkly’s light strings can deliver some truly impressive light shows with the help of an app that maps the position of each individual LED. Besides the Twinkly mobile app, you can also control the Twinkly lights with Alexa and Google Assistant, albeit in a disappointingly limited fashion. Twinkly’s LED Christmas lights have actually been arou...

Known for delivering bang-for-the-buck home entertainment products, Vizio made news earlier this year when it announced it would join LG and Sony in offering a line of OLED TVs. Vizio sent its 65-inch-class model OLED65-H1 for us to evaluate. Priced at $2,000 (on sale for $1,800 at the time of this writing), Vizio’s OLED costs a bit less than the least expensive 65-inch OLEDs from LG (model OLED65BXPUA, $1,997 as of this writing) and Sony (model XBR-65A8H, $2,498 as of this writing). But Vizio’s set falls a tad shy of Sony and a lot short of LG when it comes to processing fine details an...