Amazon and Google are officially friends now: YouTube on Fire TV, Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV

Way back in December of 2017, Google pulled YouTube off of the Fire TV citing a “lack of reciprocity” by Amazon. Amazon would not carry Chromecast and Google Home products on their store, Prime Video did not support Chromecast, and new Nest devices were being pulled. Consumers were the ones to suffer the most because of these companies’ disagreements. However, Amazon essentially announced yesterday that they and Google are officially friends now. Hooray!

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Google unveils Stadia, a cloud gaming service

Today, at Game Developers Conference 2019, Google unveiled “Stadia,” a cloud gaming service. Using this service, you can play AAA games on multiple devices without the need for a dedicated graphics card. All the processing is done on Google’s servers and you can simply stream the gameplay right onto a laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, or even a Chromecast.

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Exposed Chromecasts, Google Homes, and Samsung TVs are getting hacked – asking users to subscribe to PewDiePie

If you have an exposed network router, chances are, that you might be the next target of an ongoing attack. Security researchers TheHackerGiraffe and j3ws3r are currently running an attack/information awareness campaign, hacking networks where UPnP port forwarding is enabled.

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