Android is a powerful operating system with tons of potential. As a result, many set-top box makers often settle on it. It's ...

I thought I finally had it figured out. If the smart TV is bad, and Android TV streaming boxes and sticks are bloated, then I’d just make my own streaming box. That’s what I did. I installed Android ...

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 ...