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Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame


“I felt like I’d solved a murder.”

Kevin Snow, a video game narrative designer, wrote on Cohost that they’d been having trouble with their PC. Basically, the TV had been generating Universal Plug and Play IDs and had, over the course of several years, convinced Snow’s computer that there were essentially an infinite number of devices on their network. I recognize that most other people don’t feel this way — my co-workers, the readers of this site, basically every electronics company.

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