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 ...

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 ...

Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally hitting end of life. A message on Google’s Chromecast firmware support page (first spotted by 9to5Google) ...

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 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 ...

The original Chromecast proved that big surprises can come in small packages. Even though it was just a $35 HDMI dongle the size of a pack of gum, it had the power to transform any TV into a smart one ...

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 ...

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 made quite a splash when it announced the Chromecast, a $35 Internet-to-TV streaming stick, earlier this summer. So one month later, how does the device hold up? I’ve been using the Chromecast ...