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Review: Walmart’s $30 Android TV streamer is a brilliant content vehicle w/ unfortunate breakdowns

June 22, 2021
Google’s Android TV platform has been around for nearly seven years, but it’s only taken on traction in the past two or three. The reason? Primarily, hardware has been hard to find and, more specifically, affordable hardware. That’s why the Walmart “onn” 4K streaming box is so important — it’s one of the most affordable Android TV devices to date.  Barebones hardware with a great…
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How to play Stadia games early on Android TV or Google TV

June 22, 2021
Google is set to officially launch the Stadia for Android TV/Google TV experience on Wednesday, but a trick has been discovered to get playing today. Earlier today, a few days ahead of the scheduled launch, Google launched a new “Stadia for Android TV” app into the…
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Solar roofs don’t get full US tax credits – here’s why a fix is urgent

June 22, 2021
The solar roof industry is such a new – yet burgeoning – industry that it’s not really included in local, state, or federal policy. Updating incentives, policies, and regulations could help expand the adoption of solar roofs. With the Biden administration’s strong focus on carbon reduction, the solar investment tax credit (ITC) seems to be safe through 2024. But as it’s written today…
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Elon Musk: Tesla will hold ‘AI Day’ to show progress and recruit talent

June 22, 2021
Elon Musk announced that Tesla will hold an ‘AI Day’ in about a month to show its progress in software and hardware related to artificial intelligence. However, the main goal is to recruit talent. Over the last few years, Tesla started holding events, not really to unveil new products, but to present new technologies that it has been working on in certain fields. For example, it held a…
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Xbox hires Portal dev Kim Swift to make cloud games (like Kojima’s)

June 21, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Microsoft is getting serious again about cloud-native games. To that end, the company’s Xbox division announced today it has hired former Stadia game design director Kim Swift to oversee cloud gaming collaborations with independent studios. Those studios will include Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions if and when…
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