When you buy a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly be laced with malware or start communicating with servers in China when it’s powered up.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

Are you sitting down? Maybe you are watching TV and using an Android-powered streaming box like millions of others. If so, security researchers have some bad news for 1.3 million of you spread across ...

Marketplaces and e-waste recycling centers are practically overflowing with the things: ARM-based streaming TV boxes that run some — usually very outdated and compromised — version of Android. While ...

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Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but ...

Speaker-maker Sonos is reportedly working on its first streaming TV box, codenamed Pinewood Pinewood would run Android TV and offer an interface that attempts to unify content from all your streaming ...

In the ever-evolving realm of streaming devices, the Nvidia Shield TV stubbornly maintains its position as the undisputed Android TV box king. Launched in 2015 and refreshed in 2019, it might not be ...

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Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

Your Android TV most likely comes pre-installed with a bunch of apps across different categories, which should generally cover most of your basic needs. However ...

For less than $20, Walmart’s Google TV box is surprisingly solid. You might not expect much from Walmart’s Onn 4K Streaming Box, given its less-than-$20 price tag. But just like the original Android ...