“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 ...

Turn on your Android TV box. Press and hold the Power button on your remote. When the power menu appears, press and hold “Power off.” A prompt should appear asking to Reboot to Safe Mode. Select OK.

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.

On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming ...

Even if you are an iPhone user, there's a solid chance you have an Android device somewhere in your house. If the device happens to be an Android TV streaming box, you should check and make sure it's ...

AllWinner and RockChip might not be household names, but the two China-based companies power several wildly popular Android TV boxes that are sold on Amazon. These Android-powered television set-top ...

Researchers still don’t know the cause of a recently discovered malware infection affecting almost 1.3 million streaming devices running an open source version of Android in almost 200 countries.

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 ...