For the first birthday of Google's streaming-media stick, the exec behind the dirt-cheap dongle discusses its back story, year one, and the path ahead. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter ...

After ten years of service, Google is retiring its decade-old Chromecast 1. A message on Google's Chromecast firmware support page announced the wind-down of support, saying, "Support for Chromecast ...

Google has finally announced actual sales figures for its Chromecast streaming stick: Consumers have bought 17 million Chromecasts ever since the device got first introduced two years ago, announced ...

Google has quietly announced that support for Chromecast (1st gen) has ended and that there will be no more updates. This means Google’s inaugural — sorry Nexus Q — key-shaped streaming device will no ...

Google Chromecast is a unique device that plugs into any TV or monitor with an HDMI port, and can stream content from your phone or computer onto the big screen. You don't have to pay any subscription ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With the ability to mirror any Android app on your television, Google's Chromecast just became a whole lot more useful. While Google's ...

Serving as Google’s first foray into streaming devices, the Chromecast was a complete knockout when it debuted in 2013. Since then, Google has continued to update its streaming device, including the ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The first Chromecast, launched way back in 2013, was a novel, dirt-cheap way to get your streaming content onto your TV.

Google announced its fourth-generation Chromecast (with Google TV) on September 30, 2020. Currently, there is a new version of a Google TV streaming device aptly called the Google TV Streamer. The ...