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Buying an Android TV box can be baffling. Chances are you've ended up here because you either know what an Android TV box is and want some buying advice – or you've been advised by others that an Android TV box is the solution to your streaming problems but you have no idea what that means. If it’s the latter, I have some bad news: no-one really knows what an Android TV box is. There’s no generally-accepted definition of what constitutes one of these streaming boxes, and many don’t even run Android TV. Confused? You should be: the Android TV box market is a confusing place. However, with our guide, you can safely navigate your way to the right Android TV box for you. Deal alert: Get X96Max Smart TV BOX Android 8.1  with 37% off. The following are the product details: Brand Name:VONTAR  OTA Update:Yes  Memory:4G DDR3  Wireless:Yes  Video Output:HDMI 2.0  System Upgrade:Yes  Model Number:X96 MAX  Bluetooth:Yes  Ethernet:1000M...

Facebook hired Michael Sayman for an internship when he was 17 years old, and gave him a full-time engineering job at 18. Now, the wunderkind is leaving for Alphabet Inc's Google . He turned 21 last week. At Facebook , Sayman was a product manager who helped the social-media giant understand how his generation uses their phones, advising on experimental products for teens and helping executives understand trends. At Google, he'll be a product manager for Assistant , a voice-based service built on the search engine's giant database. Assistant is a top priority for Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai . The Mountain View, California-based company is working to embed the tool across a range of its own products and on other companies' devices, facing stiff competition from Amazon.com's Alexa and Apple's Siri . Google confirmed on Monday that Sayman was hired for the Assistant team. Facebook discovered Sayman, who taught himself to make mob...

Google has been pushing its Play Protect feature for Android ever since it was announced back at I/O 2017 . After adding the feature to Android device settings, the search giant started showing it prominently in Google Play in August. Now, the California-based company has announced that the certified devices from Google will feature Google Play Protect logo on them. The search giant says that the certified devices from the company will come with Google Play Protect out-of-the-box, and provide users with a "suite of security features" that includes automatic device scanning for the presence of malware-infected apps. "This provides baseline protection against malware, privacy hacks and more," Google said in its blog post . If you are wondering why Google provides the certification to Android devices in first place, the company says that it does this to ensure that customers receive secure and stable experience. "We work with manufactur...

Google has issued refunds to hundreds of advertisers for running ads on websites with fraudulent traffic generated by automated bots. According to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, the refunds represent only a small portion of the original spending - 7 percent to 10 percent - since rest of the money has already been passed on to site owners and middlemen. Alphabet, Google's parent company, informed marketers and ad agency partners that their ads shown through the search engine had garnered fraudulent traffic generated by bots, which certainly would never click on their ads they had paid for to be shown. "Today, we can't disclose the information about third parties. So when we aren't able to catch invalid traffic before it impacts our advertisers and we're unable to refund their media spent, it hurts us, even if we're not responsible," Scott Spencer, director of project management at Google , was quoted as saying. Spen...