Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way
You don’t really own it, and it breaks in unpredictable ways.
by Alexis C. Madrigal
Jan 24, 2019
3 minutes
The problem began mysteriously. I switched on my Samsung Smart TV to watch the Warriors game, and after about 20 seconds, the CBS News app switched itself on for a few seconds in a small rectangle in the upper left corner. Then my TV crashed, which is a thing TVs can do now, and the screen went dark.
This was particularly confusing because I’d never watched the CBS News app. I’d never installed the app, nor did I even know it was on my TV.
I tried the obvious things.
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