Cutting cable TV is certainly a forward-thinking move, but controlling your streaming TV device by voice is even more futuristic. Using voice commands can be a lot faster than fiddling with TV menus, and with smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, you don't even need to hold the remote at all.

Still, not all streaming devices are on the same level when it comes to voice control. Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Apple TV, and Android TV devices all work with different (and, in some cases, multiple) voice assistants, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots. In the interest of sorting it all out, I put together a rundown of everything you can (and can't) do sorted by streaming platform. Read the full column on TechHive.

Intriguing TiVo rumors: Earlier this week, Variety spotted an FCC filing for a new TiVo remote with a Google Assistant logo in the middle. The filing fueled speculation that TiVo is working on a new DVR product that runs on Google's Android TV software.

An Android TV-powered TiVo would theoretically solve a lot of the company's streaming app problems. While current TiVo products like the Bolt OTA are rock-solid in the DVR department, they're missing a lot of modern apps like Sling TV, Showtime, Starz, Philo, Crackle, Pluto TV, and NBA TV. To access those apps, you'd need to buy a separate streaming device and switch between inputs depending on what you want to watch.

Don't get too excited yet, though. Android Police points out that this might just be something TiVo offers to the smaller cable companies and telecoms it already partners with on DVR hardware, rather than a consumer product. We'll find out soon enough, as TiVo is holding press briefings at the CES trade show next month. (I'll be there!)

AT&T's net neutrality squeeze: A couple years ago, AT&T started exempting its home internet customers from data caps when they subscribed to DirecTV satellite or U-verse TV service. Now, the company is extending the privilege to customers who get DirecTV Now streaming service. (Normally, customers must pay $30 per month to waive AT&T's 1 TB home internet cap or pay overage fees of $10 per 50 GB.)

On it's face, this is a good deal for AT&T customers who would rather use DirecTV Now than satellite service, and it's a natural progression for AT&T as the company stops focusing on that satellite business. But perhaps you can see the problem here: By only giving unlimited data to its own TV subscribers, AT&T is effectively discouraging customers from using other services such as YouTube TV, Sling TV, or PlayStation Vue.

I'm all for AT&T bundling its own TV and internet services together, but this is different. Instead of just giving customers a discount--and sacrificing some of its own revenues in the process-AT&T has set up an unnecessary limit on data use and using it as a weapon against rival TV services. This is precisely the kind of anti-competitive move that the previous FCC was trying to stop.

Plex is one of the best over-the-air DVR solutions for do-it-yourselfers. Run Plex's Media Server software on a PC, NAS box, or Nvidia Shield, and you can use a supported tuner to record broadcast channels from an antenna. You would then use the Plex app on your streaming device of choice to watch either live TV or your recordings.

Assuming you have the requisite hardware already, you'll still need a Plex Pass to unlock the software's DVR features. That normally costs $120 for a lifetime subscription, but it's down to $90 with the coupon code HOLIDAY25 until the end of tomorrow, December 22.