When the Google Chromecast HDMI streaming stick — later a dongle — arrived in 2013, it was a revelation. Retailing for $35, it served as the cheapest possible way to get streaming content onto the ...

Chromecast built-in, Google's streaming experience, was discreetly revised last I/O 2024 and is now known as Google Cast, with the name change signaling a new era for Android's wireless connections to ...

At I/O 2024, “Chromecast built-in” was quietly rebranded to “Google Cast.” Notably, this is reversing a branding change made in 2016. At the end of 2016, the original “Google Cast” brand was phased ...

If you want to get a movie or TV show up on a big screen, or beam music wirelessly to a speaker, then the Chromecast standard is one of the best ways to go about it: It couldn't be much simpler to use ...

I got a lot of dismayed emails last week after Google announced that it’s discontinuing its line of Chromecast streaming dongles. Will existing Chromecast devices stop working? Will anything replace ...

Over the past few hours, owners of the Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio haven’t been able to Cast any audio or video content. Update 3/14: Following yesterday’s announcement, firmware version ...