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Yahoo preps Connected TV for CES

The tiresome quest to takeover Yahoo has dominated the sections of the paper you throw away every Sunday. But now the search engine is looking to inje

Aimed at bringing the ‘best of the internet to your TV’, Yahoo’s new creation will apparently let you watch whatever channel you fancy while keeping your pals up–to–date with your mundane happenings on your favourite social networks.

On top of that, Yahoo is also planning to let you get ‘internet experiences from major TV networks while watching the news.’ That’s known as advertising to you and me. Dubbed TV Widgets, it sounds like the perfect distraction when you’re a tad bored of all that important stuff going down on the news channel.

Yahoo is said to be working with major manufacturers to make TV Widgets a reality next year. That’s a reality in the US rather than the UK, but at least the idea’s there.

We’ll be getting a closer look at CES in January, so stay locked for more news as we get it.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home