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.

It used to be so simple. You turned on your television and clicked the changer until it landed on something you could stomach. Even when Netflix appeared on the scene, it was the only real streaming ...

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