Daily Deals (1-24-2022)

Best Buy is running another of its seemingly never-ending 24-hour flash sales today.  Amazon is offering deals on several popular wireless audio products including noise-cancelling Sony headphones and Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro. And if you’re getting ready for tax season and planning to prepare your own taxes this year, Amazon is also offering TurboTax […]

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Best Buy is running another of its seemingly never-ending 24-hour flash sales today.  Amazon is offering deals on several popular wireless audio products including noise-cancelling Sony headphones and Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro.

And if you’re getting ready for tax season and planning to prepare your own taxes this year, Amazon is also offering TurboTax software for up to 39% off.

Sony WF-1000XM4

Here are some of the day’s best deals.

Headphones

True wireless earbuds

Laptops & Tablets

Other

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Google is reportedly planning a next-gen Chromecast with Google TV

The obvious upgrades would be more storage and AV1 support.

Pictures of the new Chromecast.

Enlarge / The Chromecast with Google TV. It comes in colors. (credit: Google)

9to5Google reports that Google is prepping a sequel to the Google Chromecast with Google TV. Last year, Google changed the high end of the Chromecast line from a dead-simple, streaming-only video device to a full-blown Android streamer with installable apps, a navigable UI, and a physical remote. The move was effectively a merger of Google's two TV products, the Chromecast and Android TV, with the revamped, Android TV-based software being rebranded "Google TV."

9to5Google says the next-generation version of the device is codenamed "Boreal" and was spotted in some documentation next to "Sabrina," the code name for the current Chromecast with Google TV (which 9to5Google was also the first to discover). The report doesn't have any details about what we can expect from the new Chromecast, but the current device has some glaring shortcomings that will hopefully be fixed.

The biggest problem with the current Chromecast? You really have to wonder if it was actually designed from the ground up to run Android. The device has a measly 8GB of storage for the entire OS and all your apps and updates. Even $100 Android phones have 64GB of storage now, and 8GB isn't enough for even light app usage. Some Android games are exceeding 10GB these days, so you can't install them on the new Chromecast, even before half the storage is reserved for the base OS.

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