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.

“Android TV” has essentially two meanings on the market today. There’s the official Android TV OS by Google, which powers TV sets, streaming dongles, and set-top boxes, and then there’s Android, but ...

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

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Manufactured by Askey for Google, the ADT-3 was the third in a line of Android TV boxes meant for developers to test their ...

A Canadian systems security consultant discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware. The malware was discovered ...